Joan Johnston

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Joan Johnston - aka Joan Mertens Johnston . was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in theatre, worked for a weekly newspaper, was a director of theatre at a junior college in Texas, went to law school and ended up working at the largest firm in Virginia.

As a mother of two she turned to reading romance novels to cope with the stress of being a working mother and often thought "I could write one of these..." - which she finally did. Contacting Linda Marrow of Pocket Books - she had met her at the second annual Romantic Times conference in New York - her book was accepted and published as A Loving Defiance in the Tapestry Romance line in 1985.

She writes historical romances for Pocket Books and Dell, contemporary romances for Avon and category romance for the Silhouette Desire imprint.

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Sisters of the Lone Star

Captive Hearts

Hawk's Way

Bitter Creek

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