Shirl Henke: 44 books

A YANKEE PRIVATEER In Regency England anything is possible if one has the money and influence. The devious Marquess of Cargrave does, and he blackmails his American grandson into becoming his heir. Jason Beaumont, former Yankee privateer, finds himself the new Earl of Falconridge and on the...

THE GAME When professional gamblers Clint Daniels and Delilah Raymond face off across a poker table, events get very wild very fast.  He loses his steamboat, the clothes off his back, and all hell breaks out on the St. Louis levee. THE GAMBLE The situation gets even wilder...

HIS NAME IS CAIN AND EVERYONE IN THE SIERRAS FEARS HIM With his Cheyenne brother’s blood on his hands, Cain is a half-breed hired gun, hungry to prove himself to the white father who has deserted him and cursed him with mixed blood. Fiercely ambitious, he longs for wealth and power in the...

MAGDALENA, as determined as she is beautiful, shuns a royal court to set out across the Ocean Sea  to the end of the known world in search of the man she has loved since childhood—the golden Aaron Torres, heir of a great Andalusian house.  He is her lawfully betrothed and she has his...

SHE NEEDS A KILLER... Sky Brewster swore to her dying husband, a missionary, that she would not kill his murderer.  But her heart cries out for justice, and she will not rest until she sees the gunman dead at her feet.  To get the job done, she leaves her Sioux people to make a...

AN UNCONVENTIONAL HEIRESS Cass Clayton could handle a whip better than any muleskinner, out cuss any Denver saloon girl and run her freighting empire without help from any man, thank you very much. The only thing she could not do alone was produce a child to inherit that empire. ...

A REBELLIOUS FIRSTBORN SON Big, blond and defiant, David Kane refused his family’s plans for a dynastic marriage, escaping to the California gold fields with an Irish saloon girl he had won in a poker game. The mirror image of his sire, David became one of San Francisco’s self-made millionaires....

A YOUNGER MAN… Former Confederate major Brandon Caruthers is on a roll…of bad luck. He has lost the war, his fiancée and his Kentucky horse farm. When he inherits an English title, the new Baron Rushcroft learns from his London solicitor that his estates are bankrupt. So much...

Jim Slade has his hands full.  Not only does he own one of the largest ranches in the fledgling Republic of Texas; but he is a long time secret agent of President Sam Houston. To make matters even more complicated, he begins to suspect that his aristocratic fiancée may be a spying for...

THE BRIT Prim Sabrina Edgewater, teacher of deportment, first encounters the rogue during a London dockside brawl that earns him the nickname, the "Texas Viscount." Personally, she thinks of him as the "Texas Visigoth," never dreaming that the barbarian is the Earl of...

SON OF A DUKE   Geoffrey Vance, the Marquess of Kensington, is the heir to a dukedom. To escape the tyranny of his father and the burden of a duty he dreads, he flees to the battlefields of Europe and the war against Napoleon. But now the war is over and Geoff drifts into an aimless...

A NOBLE ENGLISH LADY Jocelyn Woodbridge cares nothing for the vanities of Regency London. Although the niece of an earl, she prefers tending the sick and reforming the fallen. Called a “Holy Hannah” by the ton, Joss is content with her life until the day a handsome, golden man rescues...

A FREE-SPIRITED WOMAN Allowed to run wild in the Georgia backwoods with her brothers and Creek Indian cousins, Beth Blackthorne has no desire to do her duty as daughter of a wealthy planter by making a suitable marriage. She prefers honing her skills with a paint brush to flirting with eligible...

  The Student   Robert St, John flees a disastrous marriage to fight Bonaparte, but when the young widower inherits an earldom, he must remarry and produce an heir. There will be no more cold marriage beds. Rob nervously applies to the infamous bordello, The House...