Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2850

Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2850

Seventeen Janet Daileys in the 1970s and 80s Mills & Boon editions with the painted covers, fifteen of them from her Americana series, the fifty-book project that gave every US state its own romance. Six Miranda Lees from the Sexy Romance years and two Judy Christenberry Texas doubles fill out a box for a category-romance collector or a reader who wants to see where the genre came from.

1. Summer Mahogany — Janet Dailey — Gina was sixteen when she married lobsterman Rhyder in a Maine shotgun wedding that lasted a night; nine years later he’s back on the coast and doesn’t know who she’s become. The Maine book of the Americana series and one of the best-loved.
2. Green Mountain Man — Janet Dailey — Bridget is a widow raising a daughter in Vermont when the man who left her ten years ago comes home to practise medicine. The Vermont Americana title.
3. The Master Fiddler — Janet Dailey — Jacquie wrecks her car in the Arizona desert and ends up keeping house for Choya Barnett, a widower with a small son and no interest in being charmed. One of the hard-man, trapped-heroine Daileys that defined the 70s.
4. The Thawing of Mara — Janet Dailey — Mara has frozen herself into a life nursing the father who abandoned her, until the man renting the family cottage decides to thaw her. The Pennsylvania Americana title.
5. The Mating Season — Janet Dailey — A Kansas ranch, a daughter home for the branding and the hired man who runs it. The Kansas Americana title.
6. Beware of the Stranger — Janet Dailey — Samantha is kidnapped and held in upstate New York by a man using her as leverage against her millionaire father, and the hostage situation turns into something else. The New York Americana title.
7. Giant of Mesabi — Janet Dailey — Alanna’s engagement to a Minnesota iron-range heir is sabotaged by his older brother, who takes her off his hands. The Minnesota Americana title.
8. Sonora Sundown — Janet Dailey — Brandy is a sign-painter in the Arizona desert who photographs a stranger, and he turns out to be a film star hiding from the world. The Arizona Americana title.
9. To Tell the Truth — Janet Dailey — Andrea agreed to pose as her employer’s mistress to protect him; Tell Stafford believes the pose, and despises her for it. The Oregon Americana title.
10. Heart-Throb for Hire — Miranda Lee — Kate needs a date for her sister’s wedding and hires a professional escort who’s better at the job than she’s ready for. Lee at her most playful. Harlequin Mills & Boon.
11. Reilly’s Woman — Janet Dailey — Leah survives a plane crash in the Nevada desert with a half-Native American stranger called Reilly, and they walk out together. The Nevada Americana title and the one Dailey fans rank highest.
12. The Bride in Blue — Miranda Lee — Sophia is pregnant and her fiancé is dead; his brother marries her to keep the baby in the family, then finds the arrangement isn’t as businesslike as he planned. Harlequin Mills & Boon.
13. The Indy Man — Janet Dailey — Susan’s engaged to a safe man when a race-car driver with Indianapolis on his mind decides to change her plans. The Indiana Americana title.
14. Big Sky Country — Janet Dailey — Jill is sent to a Montana ranch to break up her roommate’s romance and runs into the rancher’s brother, who’s there to do the same thing from the other side. The Montana Americana title.
15. Enemy in Camp — Janet Dailey — A journalist is invited to spend a summer on Mackinac Island with the family of the tycoon he’s been attacking in print. The Michigan Americana title.
16. For Bitter or Worse — Janet Dailey — Stacy and Cord’s marriage is failing when a plane crash blinds him and she has to decide whether to stay. The sequel to Savage Land, set on the Texas ranch; one of her few true follow-ups.
17. The Seduction Project — Miranda Lee — Molly has loved Liam since childhood and he’s never noticed, so she gives herself a makeover and a plan. Australian Author Sexy Romance line.
18. Red-Hot and Reckless — Miranda Lee — Ben returns to the Hunter Valley town that drove him out, rich and ready to settle scores with the girl who humiliated him at school. Scandals promotion edition.
19. Aunt Lucy’s Lover — Miranda Lee — Jessica inherits her aunt’s Sydney mansion and the gardener who came with it, who turns out to have been rather more than a gardener. A will with conditions, and Lee’s trademark heat.
20. Kona Winds — Janet Dailey — Julie takes a tutoring job on the Big Island and finds the Chandler family and its difficult eldest son waiting for her. The Hawaii Americana title.
21. Lord of the High Lonesome — Janet Dailey — Kit has run the North Dakota ranch for years when the English baron who owns it arrives to take charge. The North Dakota Americana title.
22. Heart of Stone — Janet Dailey — Stephanie runs her family’s White Mountains inn and takes on the hard man who wants to buy it. The New Hampshire Americana title.
23. Children of Texas: Struck by the Texas Matchmakers / Saved by a Texas-Sized Wedding — Judy Christenberry — Two Harlequin American Romances in one volume from the Tots for Texans series: small-town matchmakers, cowboys and babies on every cover.
24. Children of Texas: The Great Texas Wedding Bargain / The $10,000,000 Texas Wedding — Judy Christenberry — The companion double: a marriage of convenience for an inheritance, and the wedding that follows.