romance genre, Garwood ventured into a new genre and began writing contemporary romantic suspense novels. Like her historicals, these contemporaries still focus on family relationships, whether between blood relatives or groups of friends who have styled themselves as a family. Her first contemporary offering, Heartbreaker, was optioned for film and was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine. Bibliography As Emily Chase The Girls of Canby Hall series 14.What's a Girl to Do? 1985 (Under the pseudonym Emily Chase, Julie Garwood wrote one Young Adult novel). As Julie Garwood Young Adult A Girl Named Summer 03/1986 Single Novels Gentle Warrior (Elizabeth Montwright - Geoffrey Berkley) 10/1985 Rebellious Desire (Caroline Richmond - Jered Marcus Benton) 06/1986 Honor's Splendour (Madelyne - Baron Duncan) 12/1987 The Prize 08/1991 Saving Grace 12/1993 Prince Charming 06/1994 Crown's Spies Series The Lion's Lady 12/1988 Guardian Angel 05/1990 The Gift 01/1991 Castles 07/1993 Lairds' Brides Series The Bride 07/1989 The Wedding 04/1996 Highlands' Lairds Series The Secret 05/1992 Ransom 09/1999 Shadow Music 12/2007 Clayborne of Rosehill Series For The Roses 02/1995 One Pink Rose 06/1997 (and in "The Clayborne Brides") One White Rose 07/1997 (and in "The Clayborne Brides") One Red Rose 08/1997 (and in "The Clayborne Brides") Come The Spring 12/1997 Buchanan/FBI Series Heartbreaker 08/2000 (Nick Buchanan/Laurant Madden) Mercy 09/2001 (Theo Buchanan/Dr. Michelle Renard) Killjoy 09/2002 (John Paul Renard/Avery Delaney) Murder List 08/2004 (Alec Buchanan/Regan Hamilton Madison) Slow Burn 08/2005 (Dylan Buchanan/Kate MacKenna) Shadow Dance 12/2006 (Noah Clayborne/Jordan Buchanan) Fire and Ice 12/2008 (Jack MacAlister/Sophie Summerfield Rose) Sizzle 12/2009 (Samuel Kincaid/Lyra Prescott) The Ideal Man 08/2011 (Max Daniels/Dr. Ellie Sullivan) Sweet Talk 08/2012 (Grayson Kincaid/Olivia Mackenzie) Hotshot 06/2013 (Finn MacBain/Peyton Lockhart) Fast Track 02/2014 (Aiden Madison/Cordelia Kane) Wired 05/2017 (Liam Scott/Alison Trent Grace Under Fire 07/2022 (Michael Buchanan/ Grace Isabel MacKenna) References External links Official Site 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American thriller writers American romantic fiction writers 1946 births Living people RITA Award winners Writers from Kansas City, Missouri People from Leawood, Kansas Novelists from Kansas American people of Irish descent American women novelists Women thriller writers Women romantic fiction writers Novelists from Missouri American historical fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers