~Janet Quinn~

Janet Quinn has always been a story teller. She has put her love of stories into her writing. While honing her craft, she earned a B.A. and an M.A. in journalism. Then she took up teaching high school English and writing. She has also taught novel writing classes at the Learning Tree University in California.

Her first novel, Yesteryear’s Love, was published by Berkley/Jove under their Time Passages imprint. It placed in the finals of the Romance Writers of America/Orange County Chapter’s Orange Award Contest for published writers for best historical.

Wild Honey, published in June 2004 by Awe-Struck E-books, placed in the finals of the Romance Writers of America/Orange County Chapter Orange Rose Contest for unpublished authors.

A Moment In Time, published in November 2004 by Whiskey Creek Press, is her second time travel and takes the reader back to 1692 and a pirate boat. Coming next year from Whiskey Creek Press is The Lucky Lady, a western with a gambler and a seamstress with a secret.

Also, her manuscript, The River’s Treasure, placed in the finals for best historical in the PASIC Book of Your Heart Contest. She has contracted with Amber Quill Press for this book.

When she isn’t writing historical or time travel novels, Janet works as the Director of Education for a California Sylvan where she helps to teach the next generation to read. She lives in Southern California with two of her three sons, who encourage her writing, and her three cats.



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Amber Quill Press


Yesteryear’s Love

Following the clues in her great-grandmother’s diary, Sarah Martin leaves the big city for Moose Creek, Wyoming, hoping to trace her family history. As she stands in the town’s church, Sarah has a strange feeling that the figure in the stained glass window is calling to her. She turns and finds herself over a hundred years in the past!

It’s 1870, and suddenly Sarah must adjust to frontier life. She meets her grandparents and their friend, Joshua Campbell. He’s searching for a wife and thinks it should be her. Sarah doesn’t want to interfere with the past; however, this stubborn pioneer has captured her heart.

Can they hope for lasting happiness when she holds a deadly secret in her heart and the force that brought Sarah to Moose Creek begins to call her back?

Whiskey Creek Press


The Enchanted Hawk

Brylyn, of the Hawk Clan, is drawn into the intrigue surrounding Thom McGarrety, when his brother is to wed Anna from another domain. Brylyn faces the danger of the feonds, the humans who rule the area where her people used to live. They would see her and her people dead because they are shape-shifters.

When Anna’s family wants the McGarrety castle, Brylyn must trust her secret to Thom. Thom, believing that the shape-shifters are nothing but myth, must learn to believe in Brylyn and trust her to help save his life and his domain. Together, can they save the castle, untie their people and find lasting love?

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Amber Quill Press


The Kilted Governess

Eirica MacDougall’s ailing father promises her in marriage to a line of suitors who want her farm and are willing to overlook “the incident” that ruined her reputation at sixteen. Also, her father hires Duncan MacKinnon as governess to her young sister and he steals Eirica’s heart.

Then her father dies and the suitors become more adamant that she chose one. Duncan steps in to help her run the farm. But someone wants her inheritance and threatens her family. She must convince him to marry her to save her from the suitors. Duncan, having nothing to offer but his love, refuses. Then he must save her reputation and her life.

Arrow of the Heart

Riding across the Arizona desert in 1884 and carrying close to a million dollars worth of twenty dollar gold pieces, Cassidy Howard is transported to the present with an Apache arrow in her back. Sheriff Jesse White Feather, a full blood Apache, wants to know why his family marking is on the arrow and who in his family wants to harm her. When someone in the present tries to steal her gold and her life, Cassidy must put her trust in Jesse so that together they can find the person. As they do so, they find the magic that binds their two worlds together. Cassidy finds the true meaning of home while Jesse finds the roots he’s lost. During the investigate, Jesse is drawn to the unusual woman and finds he is giving away his heart, which is the only gift she wants from him.

The River's Treasure

Genevieve Rawlings awakens on the banks of the Mississippi River, cold, half drowned and with no recollection of how she came to be there. Cooper Monroe takes her in and she finds love and happiness with his family, something she doesn't believe she's ever had. Then someone tries to steal her diamond and ruby necklace and her life. As he protects her, he finds he is falling in love with her. Cooper lost his first wife to a fever and has vowed to never again love a woman, but no matter how hard he tries, he cannot stop himself from loving her. After he returns her to her father in New Orleans and knows that she will be safe, he returns to his family. She longs to return to the love in Cooper's house that is missing from hers. Can she convince him that she'll be happy as a farm wife instead of a socialite?

Awe-Struck E-books


Wild Honey

Stranded after her father’s death in the gold fields of 1859 Colorado with her two siblings, Melanie Whittaker starts a new life as a business woman, having given up hope of ever finding love or happiness for herself. Then Marshal Callum Reynolds steals her heart.

Cal, even though he loves Melanie, feels she will be safer away from the gold fields and encourages her to go to Ohio with her aunt. When her aunt refuses to take the children, Melanie insists she will care for her family herself.

And though she loves Cal, can she trust him to love her and her family when he insists she would be better off elsewhere? Then her business and the town are claimed by another and she might be forced to leave. Can they find lasting happiness if life wants them apart?

Whiskey Creek Press


The Irish Countess

After the death of her husband, Earl Fitzsimmons, Countess Ciara MacCormack Fitzsimmons returns home to Ireland and the earl’s estate accompanied by her six-year-old son, the new earl. There she meets Mick O’Hurlihey, the estate overseer, and falls in love for the first time in her life. However, her concern must be for her son’s welfare and keeping his inheritance safe. Being the countess keeps her from Mick.

Mick is smitten with Ciara the first time he sees her, but realizes that he can never lay claim to the Countess Fitzsimmons. Then danger stalks Ciara and her son and Mick risks his own life to keep theirs safe. Can their love prove stronger than the social status that separates them? Can Ciara have Mick and his love and still insure her son will grown up to be the Earl Fitzsimmons?

The Lucky Lady

Lila Kane moves to Cottonwood to start a dressmaking business and escape her past as a saloon singer. She becomes embroiled in danger and must rely on Carter Hawkins, a gambler, to help her. As much as she tries to keep her heart, she finds herself giving it to Carter, the wrong type of man.

A Moment In Time

"God, I'm bored," Eric Sandoval utters just before he finds himself transported back in time to a seventeenth century pirate stronghold. Captivated by Captain Felicity LeBeau, he thinks he's gone to heaven where he'll find the love he craved in his former life. Then Felicity comes under attack and he must use his wits to find out who is trying to kill her and to win her heart. Felicity wants nothing more than to remain captain of the pirates and is caught in a struggle to keep her captaincy. But Eric steals her heart and she must guard it, or her struggle will be for naught. Can Felicity give up her dream for her love of Eric and can Eric find a home in a time not his own?