Jude Deveraux Book & Series List (original) (raw)

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77 Books (16 Series)

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December 1978

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January 2025

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About the Author

Jude Deveraux is the author of fifty-seven New York Times bestselling novels. Although she is best known for her medieval romances, she has also written stories set in later time periods, as well as several time-travel romances, and her latest novels have had a contemporary setting. Many of her more recent books feature paranormal storylines. To date, there are more than 50 million copies of her books in print worldwide.

Many of her books follow the same family, the Montgomerys, through time and across continents.

She lives in North Carolina.

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Full Series List in Order

A Blue Spring Lake Novel

1 - The Girl from Summer Hill (May-2016)

The Blue Swan duology

1 - Order of Swans (Jan-2025)

Chandler Twins

1 - Twin of Ice (Jun-1985)
2 - Twin of Fire (Aug-1985)

Edenton

1 - First Impressions (Oct-2005)
2 - Carolina Isle (Jan-2006)
3 - Scarlet Nights (Aug-2010)
13 - Lavender Morning (Apr-2009)

Edilean

1 - Scarlet Nights (Aug-2010)
2 - Days of Gold (Jan-2010)
3 - Lavender Morning (Apr-2009)
4 - Promises (Sep-2010)
5 - The Scent of Jasmine (Jan-2011)
6 - Heartwishes (Sep-2011)
7 - Moonlight in the Morning (Jan-2012)
8 - Stranger in the Moonlight (Sep-2012)
9 - Moonlight Masquerade (Jan-2013)
9.5 - Change of Heart (Nov-1994)

Forever and Always Trilogy

1 - Forever: A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope (Oct-2002)
2 - Forever and Always (Sep-2003)
3 - Always (Nov-2004)

James River

1 - River Lady (Dec-1985)
2 - Lost Lady (Apr-1985)
3 - Counterfeit Lady (Dec-1984)
Sweetbriar (May-1983)

Lanconia's Royal Family

1 - The Maiden (Oct-1988)

Legend, Colorado

1 - Legend (Oct-1996)
2 - The Teacher (Nov-1997)

A Medlar Mystery

1 - A Willing Murder (Sep-2018)
2 - A Justified Murder (Feb-2019)
3 - A Forgotten Murder (Mar-2020)
4 - A Relative Murder (Apr-2022)
5 - An Unfinished Murder (Apr-2024)

Montgomery / Taggart

1 - The Black Lyon (Oct-1980)
2 - The Duchess (Oct-1991)
3 - The Temptress (Aug-1986)
4 - The Raider (Jun-1987)
5 - Mountain Laurel (Jun-1990)
6 - Sweet Liar (Sep-1992)
7 - Wishes (Nov-1989)
8 - The Princess (Nov-1987)
9 - Eternity (Feb-1992)
10 - Someone to Love (Jul-2007)
11 - The Heiress (Dec-1995)
12 - The Awakening (Jun-1988)
13 - The Invitation (Jan-1994)
13 - The Invitation: Matchmakers (Jan-1994)
13 - The Invitation: Perfect Arrangement (Jan-1994)
14 - High Tide (Nov-1999)
15 - A Knight in Shining Armor (Jul-1989)
16 - Met Her Match (Sep-2019)

The Montgomery Annals

1 - The Velvet Promise (Apr-1981)
2 - Highland Velvet (Aug-1982)
3 - Velvet Song (Feb-1983)
4 - Velvet Angel (Dec-1983)
5 - The Velvet Quartet (Jan-2003)

The Nantucket Brides Trilogy

1 - True Love (Jul-2013)
2 - For All Time (Jul-2014)
3 - Ever After (Jun-2015)

The Peregrine Family

1 - The Taming (May-1989)
2 - The Conquest (Feb-1991)

Summer Hill

1 - The Girl from Summer Hill (May-2016)
2 - Met Her Match (Sep-2019)

Summerhouse

1 - The Summerhouse (May-2001)
2 - Return to Summerhouse (Jun-2008)
3 - As You Wish (Mar-2018)
4 - Met Her Match (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 77 titles

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  The Enchanted Land
  The Enchanted Land lay west of the bluegrass splendors of her Kentucky home, east of the gold dappled salons of San Francisco, beneath the star-spangled skies of New Mexico, and within the powerful and tender embrace of one man. Love had made Morgan ...

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  The Black Lyon
  Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the bold English conqueror they called the Black Lyon, Ranulf was a man no woman could win--until he found a tawny-haired beauty named Lyonene, whose fiery spirit matched his own. Through a whirlwind roma...

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  The Velvet Promise
  ALL OF ENGLAND REJOICED ON HER WEDDING DAY, BUT JUDITH VOWED THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD GET ONLY WHAT HE TOOK FROM HER! At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. The tall, broad-shouldered Gavin M...

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  Casa Grande
  SHE CAME HOME A SMALL-TOWN CELEBRITY BUT THE DREAM SHE FOUGHT FOR MADE HER A WOMAN OF THE WORLD Determined to repay those who had sacrificed for her, Laura Taylor turned her artistic drive to a fabulous dream. From the ruins of a Spanish mission, ...

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  Highland Velvet
  BRONWYN MacARRAN WAS A PROUD SCOT. STEPHEN MONTGOMERY WAS ONE OF THE HATED ENGLISH. He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of...

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  Velvet Song
  They were both outcasts by a harsh decree, on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackett fled to the woods -- and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the...

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  Sweetbriar
  IT HAD BEEN ONLYA FEW MINUTES, YET HER LIFE WAS FOREVER CHANGED. Linnet left the remnants of her old world behind her, as she trudged into the Kentucky wilderness. She and the six children were all who survived the Indian attack on their wagon tr...

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  Velvet Angel
  At last, the soaring, breathless, tumultuous climax of the Montgomery Annals ... She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Once he gazed into her green eyes, saw her tangle of honey blond hair, he was undone with passion...

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  Counterfeit Lady
  Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept across turbulent seas... to be the bride of a stranger. In 18th-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that abounded the great plantations. There Clayton awaited ...

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  Lost Lady
  From England's bawdy wharves to Virginia's elegant mansions, their love was kindled by chance, flamed by passion.... Forsaken by her guardian, scorned by her fiance, ethereal Regan found safety in the strong arms of a stranger. Rough-hewn Travis,...

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  Twin of Ice
  In Chandler, Colorado, every man dreamed of winning Houston Chandler and her twin sister, Blair. But for Kane Taggert, a rugged stranger with dark eyes and new money, Houston was the lady he vowed to make his wife. Beneath her gracious mien lay a wom...

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  Twin of Fire
  Blair Chandler loved a man of challenge and passion --- Dr. Lee Westfield. Still, she clung to her own dream of practicing medicine in Chandler, Colorado. With her impetuous spirit she had won her degree, and then won Lee's heart. Yet even as their a...

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  River Lady
  In a chance encounter on Virginia's riverfront, Leah, a beautiful waif, unwittingly captured the one man she had always loved! Handsome, well-born Wesley, in an unexpected twist of fate, becomes Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a n...

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  The Temptress
  With the blazing spirit of a true Montgomery, heiress Christiana Montgomery Mathison bravely defies the two men who abduct her. Forced into the primitive rain forests of the Washington Territory, she is swept into a thrilling adventure. Amid schemes ...

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  The Raider
  Returning to Warbrooke, Maine, after ten years abroad, Alexander Montgomery doesn't like what he sees. Redcoats are running rampant over the town, intimidating citizens and imprisoning patriots. Alexander vows to take action. By day, padding his coat...

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  The Princess
  Her name was Aria... a beautiful, arrogant princess from a small European kingdom. Stranded in a storm of intrigue near the Florida Keys, she is swept ashore and into the arms of dashing J.T. Montgomery, an officer of the American Navy. Disdainful a...

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  The Awakening
  Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch--until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire smoldering beneath her prim, virtuous ...

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  The Maiden
  He was wise, strong, and brave. His destiny was to be king. She was young, beautiful, a warrior princess. Her destiny was to love him. But when first they met, it was not as princess and king -- it was as man and woman only, consumed by a passion ...

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  The Taming
  HER LOVE WAS TOO PRECIOUS TO SQUANDER, TOO PASSIONATE TO RESIST... England's most valiant knights paid court to wealthy Liana Neville, but only the infamous warrior Rogan Peregrine made no secret of his powerful desires. His very caress melted Lia...

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  A Knight in Shining Armor
  Dougless Montgomery couldn't believe it. She had tried to be the very essence of the modern American woman -- competent yet sexy, financially independent yet ready to love and be loved. She had planned this holiday tour with special care, wanting eve...

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  Wishes
  Jace Montgomery was a stranger in Chandler. Tall, proud, and ruggedly handsome, he would make any woman's heart beat faster. Even shy, sweet Nellie Grayson -- Nellie, who thought only of her beautiful younger sister's happiness. With Nellie's tireles...

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  Mountain Laurel
  Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the C...

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  The Conquest
  Lovely 17-year-old Zared Peregrine is the pride of her family, a treasure her rough-hewn brothers, Rogan and Severn, will strive at any cost to protect from their ancient enemies, the Howards. The Peregrines have suffered loss enough in this blood fe...

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  The Duchess
  Claire Willoughby was a modern American girl of the late 1800s--fresh, practical, energetic, and wide-eyed with curiosity. A clause in her grandfather's will said that she must wed an "acceptable" man to keep her millions, and blond, handsome Harry M...

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  Eternity
  Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was looking for a hardworking, practical mail- order bride to help with the farm and feed and clothe his children. Yet ...

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  Sweet Liar
  It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City ...her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alon...

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  The Invitation
  Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling ar...

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  The Invitation: Matchmakers
  Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...

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  The Invitation: Perfect Arrangement
  Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...

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  Change of Heart
  When the weather outside is frightful, what better way to warm up than with four tales of love and adventure from your favorite romance writers. Slip into a bubble bath or curl up in front of a roaring fire - and let Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, A...

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  Remembrance
  Hayden Lane, a best-selling romance writer, is a happy young woman -- or so she believes. Certainly her pals might chide her for not getting out more, but writing her novels is time-consuming. Besides, the tales she weaves of dark intrigues and timel...

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  Just Curious
  A Gift Of Love captures holiday magic as it transports us...to New York City, where a schoolteacher slips an antique gold ring on her finger and travels back in time to a man who desperately needs her love...to a village in Victorian England, where a...

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  The Heiress
  Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie--as Jamie's devoted older sister predicts--the family'...

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  Legend
  Her wedding fast approaching, celebrated chef Kady Long knew she was the luckiest woman alive...until she slipped into a delicate satin wedding dress she found in and antique flour tin, and was overcome by an odd dizzy spell. When she came to, Kady w...

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  The Teacher
  A spirited Irishwoman comes to a rugged Colorado town to govern a young ruffian and learns a love lesson from the boy's father: there is more to the man than meets the eye....

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  A Gift of Love
  Nothing is more precious than the gift of love. In this dazzling new collection, two leading ladies of romance, New York Times bestsellers Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux, along with the rising stars Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane, and Judith O'Brien,...

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  An Angel for Emily
  Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been stood up by her fiance when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his p...

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  The Blessing
  Wealthy corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break from his high-powered world to visit his hometown of Abernathy, Kentucky. As a favor to his physician brother David, he finds himself spending one week as a live-in baby-sitter in the r...

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  High Tide
  A rising corporate star, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through. When her boss sends her to the Florida Everglades to accompany a wealthy new client on a rustic fishing expedition, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fion...

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  Temptation
  New York City, 1909: A woman ahead of her time, Temperance O'Neil is happily married to her work -- helping single mothers on the city streets -- which she funds with her inheritance. When her disapproving stepfather, Angus McCairn, cuts off her...

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  Unfinished Business
  New York Times bestselling author JUDE DEVERAUX unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle....

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  The Summerhouse
  Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past? Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating this turning point at a summerhouse in Maine. Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of th...

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  The Mulberry Tree
  She had a perfect life. Then she got a real life... For nearly twenty years, quiet, unassuming Lillian Manville has devoted herself to her self-made billionaire husband -- and enjoyed a luxurious life of splendid homes, trips, jewels, and clothes....

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  Forever: A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope
  Darci Monroe overcame a childhood of neglect with an ebullient spirit, a positive attitude ... and extraordinary determination. Now the resourceful young woman, hired as Adam Montgomery's personal assistant, devotes more than just professional attent...

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  The Velvet Quartet
  By Jude Deveraux. ISBN 0-7394-3766-6. Jude Deveraux's Passionate Velvet Series Comes Alive in The Velvet Quartet, an Exclusive 4-in-1 Rhapsody Edition. This volume includes the following novels, complete and unabridged: The Velvet Promise, Highlan...

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  Wild Orchids
  Since his wife's death, world-famous author Ford Newcombe has lived a solitary life, void of creativity--or love. Then Jackie Maxwell tears down the walls of his isolated world with her sassy wit and fierce intelligence. Ford's heart is touched by hi...

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  Forever and Always
  Darci's psychic abilities have always guided her through hardship...and into a once-in-a-lifetime love with her rich, powerful husband, Adam Montgomery. When Adam vanishes in a mysterious accident, a grief-stricken Darci is left alone to raise their ...

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  Holly
  A relentless campaign by phone, letter, and email has persuaded Hollander Latham's parents to purchase the home of her dreams: Spring Hill, a beautiful North Carolina plantation where Holly spent her memorable thirteenth summer. Now a successful arch...

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  Always
  Darci has never given up searching for her kidnapped husband, Adam Montgomery. But her quest has taken her deeper into the world of psychic phenomena than she ever dreamed -- or dared to go. When the FBI enlists her help in locating the missing fathe...

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  First Impressions
  When Eden Palmer moved into Farrington Manor, the charming house that was willed to her, she hoped her new home in lovely Arundel, North Carolina, would provide the fresh start she needed. Her beloved daughter Melissa, whom Eden raised on her own, wa...

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  Carolina Isle
  New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux uncovers the passions and scandals that take a small town by storm when two cousins switch lives. Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would caus...

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  Someone to Love
  It's been three years since his fiancee's mysterious suicide. and Jace Montgomery still hungers for answers. Stacy was kind, funny, and in love--why, on a trip to England. would she end her life in a room above a village pub? Then Jace stumbles upon ...

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  Secrets
  At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother's business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother's ...

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  Return to Summerhouse
  Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like t...

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  Lavender Morning
  Jude Deveraux captures the passions, intrigues, and secrets of a small Southern town -- and begins a breathtaking new series! Jocelyn Minton was only five years old when her mother died. After her handyman father remarried, Joce never felt lonelier...

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  Days of Gold
  Jude Deveraux sweeps readers away in her second Edilean novel, a dazzling tale brimming with passion, humor, exquisite historical detail, and pulse-pounding adventure! Scotland, 1766: The laird of the clan, Angus McTern, has everything he wants in l...

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  Scarlet Nights
  Jude Deveraux sets wedding bells ringing in idyllic Edilean, Virginia -- but long-hidden secrets may change love's course. Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating their wedding, just weeks away. Every det...

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  Promises
  Promises is a story of passion and mystery set on an 19th century plantation, where a beautiful young writer finds herself falling for the last man she ever expected to love....

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  The Scent of Jasmine
  Would you risk your life -- on the love of a lifetime? Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and fam...

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  Heartwishes
  Gemma Ranford wants the job cataloging the documents of the Frazier family so much that she is ready to do battle to get it. Fascinated with history, and desperately trying to finish her dissertation, she's hoping against all hope that the papers...

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  Moonlight in the Morning
  In an all-new trilogy set in blissful Edilean, Virginia, Jude Deveraux weaves together the tales of three young women, best friends since college, and the lives, loves, and dreams that await them. Sparks are flying between Jecca Layton and Dr. Trist...

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  Stranger in the Moonlight
  In the second novel in her bestselling Edilean trilogy, Jude Deveraux returns to the idyllic Virginia town where three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. Kim Aldredge is delighted that her d...

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  Moonlight Masquerade
  Jude Deveraux's bestselling trilogy of Edilean, the small Virginia town where the surprising destinies of three college friends wait to be discovered, continues with this enchanting new novel. After being abruptly jilted, Sophie Kincaid flees to t...

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  True Love
  Jude Deveraux, the "New York Times" bestselling author of unforgettable romance, returns with a breathtaking first book in a fantastic new series -- the Nantucket Brides trilogy. Set on the magical Massachusetts island, "True Love" in...

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  For All Time
  New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux returns to the magnificent, sunny island in For All Time, the second novel in her Nantucket Brides trilogy -- this time featuring the next generation of her beloved family of Montgomery-Taggerts. Th...

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  Ever After
  New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux’s eagerly awaited third novel in her blockbuster Nantucket Brides trilogy continues the spellbinding saga of the Montgomery-Taggerts, set on an island steeped in beauty and unforgettable romance. ...

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  The Girl from Summer Hill
  The first novel of "New York Times" bestselling author Jude Deveraux's breathtaking new series set in Summer Hill, a small town where love takes center stage against the backdrop of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" ENTER ELIZABETH BENNET. Che...

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  As You Wish
  One fateful summer, three very different women find themselves together in Summer Hill, Virginia, where they find they have much more in common than they realized… Sixty-year-old Olivia’s first marriage was long and unhappy, but now she is a n...

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  A Willing Murder
  New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux makes her debut in the world of mystery with a story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequences… ...

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  A Justified Murder
  New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux continues her breakout Medlar Mystery series with a twisted tale of guilt and revenge… The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots o...

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  Met Her Match
  In small towns, no one lets the facts get in the way of juicy gossip… Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesn’t deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only wa...

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  A Forgotten Murder
  An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count… It’s the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar. After solving two murder cases in their hometown of Lachlan, Florida, Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their frie...

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  Meant To Be
  An inspiring new family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend i...

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  A Relative Murder
  Even the closest families have secrets hidden away. Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and s...

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  My Heart Will Find You
  Their love refused to stay quiet, echoing across time… When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta ...

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  An Unfinished Murder
  Sara Medlar may be retired as a bestselling author, but her career as an amateur detective is facing one final mystery -- and it’s a killer. Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and...

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  Order of Swans
  In this spellbinding, fantasy-rich romance, a woman is swept into a world where she has the power to alter fairy tales, and change a kingdom’s destiny…To Kaley Arens, a PhD student and expert in folklore, fairy stories have always had a power and...

Award-Winning Books by Jude Deveraux

The Conquest
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Medieval Romance
Legend
1996 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Time-Travel
The Maiden
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Fantasy
Wishes
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Fantasy

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jude Deveraux has published 77 books.

Jude Deveraux does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Order of Swans, was published in January 2025.

The first book by Jude Deveraux, The Enchanted Land, was published in December 1978.

Yes. Jude Deveraux has 16 series.