One of the most popular romance writers in America today, former attorney and college professor Joan Johnston has over 10 million books in print world-wide - including the New York Times bestsellers SISTERS FOUND, THE COWBOY, THE TEXAN, THE LONER, THE NEXT MRS. BLACKTHORNE and NO LONGER A STRANGER..
The Price represented a milestone in Johnston's career as her first hardcover original.
Joan Johnston has an eclectic background. Now the bestselling, award-winning author of forty-five novels, she was formerly an attorney with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Miami, Florida. Joan also worked as a newspaper editor and drama critic in San Antonio, Texas, as a director of theatre in Southwest Texas, and as a college professor, most recently at the University of Miami, Florida. Joan has a B.A. in theatre arts from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida, an M.A. in theatre from the University of Illinois in Urbana and received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
Joan loves to travel and visited England and Scotland to do research
for her Captive Hearts series (Captive, After the Kiss, The Bodyguard
and The Bridegroom). She also made journeys to Tahiti, Australia and Bali--for
a South Seas, WWII novel that she hopes to write. Joan's books have appeared
on the New York Times, USA TODAY and Publisher's Weekly
Bestseller Lists.
For her Bitter Creek series, Joan toured the legendary King Ranch in South
Texas and took a course on tracking (humans and animals!) from a Deputy
Marshal deep in the Big Bend country of West Texas. She also traveled
to Australia to tour the big cattle stations there and see what life is
like Down Under.
Joan is a member of the Authors Guild, Novelists, Inc., Romance Writers
of America and Florida Romance Writers. She divides her time between homes
in Colorado and South Florida.
Johnston recently became a grandmother for the second time. Her daughter, a teacher, lives in the Tampa area. Her son, a budding novelist, lives in Orlando.
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