Joan Johnston Update - THE BAREFOOT BRIDE

One of my favorite historical western romances, THE BAREFOOT BRIDE, was just reissued and is now in stores in paperback with a fabulous new cover. This is yet another mail-order bride story, about a Boston widow who comes all the way to Fort Benton, Montana to meet her country doctor husband. Read more...

For so many of you who have asked about UNFORGETTABLE, I'm not done yet. AAACK! I know how much you're looking forward to reading it. Probably as much as I've been looking forward to writing it. I thought I'd be able to finish up sooner, but the plan is to have it available in August. Check with my Facebook page or website where I will post the release date as soon as it's finished.

The good news is that SINFUL is finished and due for publication on April 28, 2015. It will be followed by SHAMEFUL in late June 2015.

Next I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to attend the Romance Writers of America annual conference where I'll be speaking and also participating in a literacy signing with hundreds of fellow authors. It's open to the public, so if you're in the area, please come and say hello!

Joan Johnston

THE BAREFOOT BRIDE

From genteel Boston to the wilds of Montana, she is searching for a safe haven for her family—and finds unexpected love.

Having lost her beloved husband, a whaling captain, to a watery grave, Molly Gallagher refuses to risk more heartbreak. Determined to keep her headstrong son from following in his father's footsteps, she agrees to become the mail-order bride of a Montana country doctor. She tells her new husband that she can never give her love to another man; what she doesn't tell him is that she has a young daughter and a rebellious teenage son.

Molly's ruse might have worked, but Seth Kendrick has secrets of his own: a willful daughter determined to end the marriage before it even begins—and a double life keeping his neighbors safe from outlaws. In an untamed land of vigilante justice, Molly has no choice but to trust this gray-eyed stranger whose stubbornness matches her own, whose kisses unleash flash floods of desire—and who may be the one man in a million who could win her fiery, faithful heart.