Brenda Novak

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak's career as a bestselling author--she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home. "When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book," Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times, USA Today and Borders/Waldenbooks bestseller lists and won many awards, including three Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best and the National Reader's Choice Award. Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children--three girls and two boys. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research--an online auction held on her Web site (www.brendanovak.com) every May. Brenda has raised over $1.6 million to date.

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Books by Brenda Novak

Her Darkest Nightmare (Dr. Evelyn Talbot Novels)

Release Date: 30 Aug 2016

Price: $2.92

Her Darkest Nightmare, first in an electrifying new series from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She was only sixteen when her own boyfriend J...more


The Secrets She Kept

Release Date: 26 Jul 2016

Price: $6.66

Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking!The rich and powerful Josephin...more


Discovering You (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 24 May 2016

Price: $2.77

Can she ever trust another "bad boy"? India Sommers once had the perfect familyuntil an ex-boyfriend broke in and shot her husband. Not only did that cost her the man she loved, a respected heart surgeon and the father of her child, but she also fee...more


A Winter Wedding (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 27 Oct 2015

Price: $2.44

www.BrendaNovak.com One Christmas can change your life Kyle Houseman believes he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no...more


Hanover House

Release Date: 01 Sep 2015

Price: $8.88

Welcome to Hanover House. Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the antisocial mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why dont they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And ...more


The Secret Sister

Release Date: 28 Jul 2015

Price: $7.71

Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to healand to help her brother, Keith, ...more


Love That! Brenda Novak's Every Occasion Cookbook with Jan Coad (All Proceeds Go To Diabetes Research)

Release Date: 01 May 2015

Price: $20.99

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Brenda Novak has written more than fifty novels. She is also a mother of five, and there is nothing that turns a woman into a fighter more quickly than a threat to one of her children. When her youngest son...more


The Heart of Christmas (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 28 Oct 2014

Price: $3.00

www.BrendaNovak.com Just call her Christmas Eve… Eve Harmon has always enjoyed Christmas, but this year it reminds her of everything she doesn't have. Almost all her friends are married now, and that's what Eve wants, too. Love. A husb...more


A Matter of Grave Concern

Release Date: 07 Oct 2014

Price: $6.55

Bestselling author Brenda Novak unearths love in the darkest of places.When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He's worried about Ma...more


Of Noble Birth

Release Date: 29 Jul 2014

Price: $6.22

Furious at his aristocratic father for abandoning him as an infant, Nathaniel Kent spends his days exacting revengein a most lucrative way. The handsome, blue-eyed pirate captain attacks his fathers boats, plundering their cargo and reaping the rewards...more


Come Home to Me (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 25 Mar 2014

Price: $2.28

www.BrendaNovak.comHome is where her heart isWhen Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulte...more


Take Me Home for Christmas (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 29 Oct 2013

Price: $3.61

www.BrendaNovak.comChristmas is a time for rememberingToo bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town's Mean Girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned.But Sophia has paid the price for...more


Through the Smoke

Release Date: 15 Oct 2013

Price: $2.49

Winner of the National Readers' Choice Award for Historical Romance A shocking betrayalRiches. Power. An ancient heritage of pride. The Earl of Druridge wanted only for an heir. So when he learned that his wife was carrying another mans child, he was f...more


Home to Whiskey Creek

Release Date: 30 Jul 2013

Price: $2.37

RT READER'S CHOICE WINNERSometimes home is the refuge you needand sometimes it isn'tAdelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to hel...more


Love Is Murder (Thriller)

Release Date: 26 Feb 2013

Price: $3.84

Prepare for heart-racing suspense in this original collection by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romance suspense today. Bodyguards, vigilantes, stalkers, serial killers, women (and men!) in jeopardy, cops, thieves, P...more


When Summer Comes (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 29 Jan 2013

Price: $3.31

Welcome to Whiskey Creek Heart of the Gold Country! One day, Callie Vanetta receives devastating news She needs a liver transplant. But her doctors warn that, in her case, the chances of finding a compatible donor aren't good. Determined to spend ...more


When Lightning Strikes (Whiskey Creek)

Release Date: 28 Aug 2012

Price: $3.44

Welcome to Whiskey CreekHeart of the Gold Country!Simon O'Neal's causing trouble again.And it's up to Gail DeMarco to stop him.Gail DeMarco left Whiskey Creek, California, to make a name for herself in Los Angeles. Her PR firm has accumulated a roster ...more


In Close (Bulletproof)

Release Date: 25 Oct 2011

Price: $3.49

Claire O'Toole's mother, Alana, went missing fifteen years ago. That was big news in Pineview, Montana, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens. Then, last year, Claire's husband, David, died in a freak accidentafter launching his own invest...more


In Seconds (Bulletproof)

Release Date: 30 Aug 2011

Price: $4.94

They're back Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the gang members who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found peace and stability in the small to...more


Inside (Bulletproof)

Release Date: 28 Jun 2011

Price: $2.19

Virgil Skinner served fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit. He's finally been exonerated, but he can't escape the gang he joined in order to survive. They'll do anything to keep him from telling what he knows. And if they can't get to Virgil ...more


Dead Right

Release Date: 19 Nov 2010

Price: $0.00

Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepfamily had nothing to do with it. But the recent discovery of his car finally proves he didn't just drive away. Worse, the police ...more


That Christmas Feeling (Harlequin Super Romance)

Release Date: 02 Nov 2010

Price: $2.89

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Killer Heat (Department 6 Novel)

Release Date: 28 Sep 2010

Price: $1.20

The bodies of seven women have been discovered in Skull Valley, Arizona. Jonah Young, a private security operative from Department 6, has been hired by the Yavapai County sheriff to assist in solving these murders. But Jonah's not prepared for the co...more


White Heat (Department 6 Novel)

Release Date: 27 Jul 2010

Price: $3.25

A dangerous cult has recently taken over the desert ghost town of Paradise, Arizona. Members worship at the feetand in the bedof its charismatic leader, Ethan Wycliff, and obey his orders blindly. They've already tried to murder one woman and they're...more


Dear Maggie (Men in Uniform)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2010

Price: $0.95

Maggie Russell is the ideal heroine, maintaining her vulnerability even as she presents herself as strong, direct, spunky and tenderhearted. Although she's left behind the difficult teen years of acne and embarrassment over her red hair, Maggie's profe...more


Dead Giveaway (Stillwater)

Release Date: 22 Dec 2009

Price: $3.94

The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago... And the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why. They're convinced he was murdered--by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay--and his mother and sisters--can say for sure...more


Dead Silence (Stillwater Trilogy)

Release Date: 22 Dec 2009

Price: $3.51

There's a body buried behind a Mississippi farmhouse Grace Montgomery knows who it is, and she knows why it happened. She was only thirteen the night it all went wrong. And now, like then, she has no choice but to keep her mouth shut. Grace left the to...more


The Perfect Couple (The Last Stand)

Release Date: 21 Jul 2009

Price: $3.97

One afternoon in May, Zoe Duncan's thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing from her own backyard. The police think Samantha ran away because she's unhappy about her mother's upcoming marriagebut Zoe doesn't believe it. In fact, she's willing to do an...more


The Perfect Liar

Release Date: 01 Jan 2009

Price: $4.00

When Air Force captain Luke Trussell is wrongly accused of rape by his stalker, victims' rights advocate Ava Bixby falls for Luke and finds herself targeted by his accuser. Title: The Perfect Liar Author: Novak, Brenda Publisher: Harlequin Books Public...more


Coulda Been A Cowboy

Release Date: 12 Jun 2007

Price: $9.98

[Read by Adam Verner] If only Grandpa was around now to help Tyson Garnier out of this mess. The famous pro-football player is suddenly saddled with a very public scandal - - and an illegitimate child. Tyson needs a good nanny now if he's going to sal...more


Once Upon a Christmas: Just Like the Ones We Used to Know/The Night Before Christmas/All the Christmases to Come (Harlequin Superromance Anthology, No 1380)

Release Date: 07 Nov 2006

Price: $2.72

In the spirit of Christmases past, presentand future"Just Like the Ones We Used To Know" by Brenda NovakAngela Forrester is determined her foster child will get the one thing she wants for Christmas: to meet her real fathereven though he doesn't know h...more


The Other Woman (Dundee, Idaho, Book 7)

Release Date: 09 May 2006

Price: $5.69

Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. Now she's focusing on her new busines...more


Stranger in Town (Harlequin Superromance No. 1278)

Release Date: 01 Jun 2005

Price: $15.65

The car accident was Hannah Price's fault-a few seconds of inattention that changed Gabe Holbrook's life forever, destroying everything he'd been or ever wanted to be. He was a man who'd had it all. Intelligent, handsome, talented, rich, he'...more


A Home of Her Own

Release Date: 01 Dec 2004

Price: $49.90

When Lucky Caldwell, the daughter of a prostitute, comes home to Dundee, Idaho, she discovers that the townspeople have long memories. Mike Hill, the boy she remembers form those long-ago years, is less than happy about her return when she moves next d...more


Cold Feet

Release Date: 01 Feb 2004

Price: $10.00

When the past won't go away . . . The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new li...more


A Family of Her Own

Release Date: 01 Jan 2004

Price: $0.89

From the back cover: "Facing herself back in her hometown years after leaving to make her way in the big city, Katie Rogers is forced to face the man she left behind." Pages: 296; 6.62" x 4.12"more


Sanctuary: The Birth Place (Harlequin Superromance No. 1158)

Release Date: 01 Oct 2003

Price: $5.49

Hope Tanner escaped from her polygamous community in Superior, Utah, ten years ago-pregnant and alone. She ended up at The Birth Place in Enchantment, New Mexico, where Lydia Kane, the clinic's founder, handled the private adoption of her baby. A baby ...more


A Husband of her Own (Harlequin Superromance No. 1130)

Release Date: 01 May 2003

Price: $20.66

Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a rivalry that began when she was a kid and the Hills moved in across the street. Great-looking, ...more


Taking the Heat (Silhouette Super Romance Series Extra)

Release Date: 01 Feb 2003

Price: $5.09

The small town of Florence, Arizona, is known for one thing-its prison. Gabrielle Hadley is in Florence for personal reasons, though; she's seeking the mother who abandoned her more than two decades ago. In order to support herself and her two-year-old...more


A Baby of Her Own (Dundee, Idaho)

Release Date: 01 Sep 2002

Price: $37.70

What Delaney wants...is a baby. A baby of her own. At thirty, she longs to break away from the constraints of her life. Longs to reach out for her heart's desire. She'd prefer marriage as well, but there's no man in Dundee, Idaho, she's interested in m...more


Shooting the Moon (Harlequin Superromance No. 1058)

Release Date: 01 May 2002

Price: $2.95

When Harley Nelson got on his motorcycle and drove out of Portland, Oregon, ten years ago, he left behind a bad reputation-and a baby. Audra Worthington was the reason for both. Well, the baby, anyway. The reputation he already had. It's why ...more


We Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Harlequin Superromance No. 1021)

Release Date: 01 Nov 2001

Price: $14.00

Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy--former golden boy--of their small Nevada town. The marriage was a disaster because her ex-husband never grew up. And he sure wasn't much of a daddy.Now Jac...more


Baby Business: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 955)

Release Date: 01 Dec 2000

Price: $3.93

Saving her child means having having his baby. She needs money, a lot of it, to pay for her daughter's operation. Macy McKinney will do anything for fiver-year-old Haley. Businessman Thad Winters, a widower, wants a child without the complications of a...more


Expectations: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 899)

Release Date: 01 Feb 2000

Price: $1.69

With her son, Ryan, Jenna's moved back to Mendocino, where she's living and working at the Victoriana Bed and Breakfast. It's owned by the elderly Durhams--whose grandson, Adam, was her first love. And, in some ways, her last.... But that was fifteen y...more