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# JoAnn Durgin

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- [Home](https://joanndurgin.com/) - If you enjoy reading contemporary Christian romantic adventures with great characters, humor, witty banter and dramatic conflict with a moving plot line (and sometimes a touch of intrigue), then you've come to the right place! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and spend a few minutes! JoAnn Durgin is a USA Today bestselling author
- [Standalone Novels](https://joanndurgin.com/books/standalone-novels/) - An Early Spring Small-town charm and rediscovered dreams are always in season in Dogwood Creek, Tennessee! Investigative journalist Ryan Hartmann is living his best life. Based in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, he gets the prime assignments and travels the world. When he finally takes a break to visit his Grandpa Luke in a
- [Lewis Legacy Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/lewis-legacy-series/) -  Prelude - Prequel to The Lewis Legacy Series On April 24, 1962, U.S. Air Force Captain Samuel J. Lewis returns home to small Rockbridge, Texas. Six years older, Sam is the boy who moved four houses down when Sarah Jordan was ten. A teenager who nicknamed her Tomboy and teased her like an older
- [Treasured Vow Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/treasured-vow-series/) - Please see the Lewis Legacy Series Page for more detailed information about my Lewis Legacy Series books. The Treasured Vow Series Thee Will I Cherish - Treasured Vow Series, Book #1 Armed with her MBA degree, Gabriella Martin is ready to face the world. She’s gained valuable experience the past year as the interim CFO
- [Julianna Desmond](https://joanndurgin.com/books/julianna-desmond-series/) - Only A Heartbeat Away - Julianna Desmond, Book #1 Georgia Adler might be from a small town near Atlanta, but don’t call her a peach! Before the release of her debut novel, a top literary critic reviews her book as a “contemporary masterpiece of epic proportions.” As a result, Georgia is named one
- [Snowcrest Christmas Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/snowcrest-christmas-series/) - Love Upon a Midnight Clear - Book #1 Bestselling author Grant Thomas is quiet by nature but anything but shy. No one in the little town of Snowcrest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula knows his true identity, and that’s the way he likes it. Ensconced in his cozy cabin, he can write and cook to
- [Millcreek Christmas Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/millcreek-christmas-series/) - Love on Assignment - Millcreek Christmas Series, Book #1 Lisbeth Lawrence never expected to be catapulted into a snowbank on a bitterly cold December night. Dazed and sprawled in the snow, she looks into the soulful eyes of the boy who’d stolen her heart ten years ago—he just didn’t know it. Rugged and
- [Underground](https://joanndurgin.com/books/underground/) - Underground- Book #11 Sought-after portrait artist, Gayle Ferrari, travels to England to explore the sights with her friends and mentors, Sam and Lexa Lewis, and their four children. On the day after her arrival in London, she rushes to the aid of a darling little boy in the Piccadilly Circus Underground station. Then finds herself
- [If You Believe](https://joanndurgin.com/books/if-you-believe/) - If You Believe If You Believe brings readers the story of Brendan and Edlynne. Can a man struggling with a terrible tragedy and a woman wounded by betrayal find love together? In charming Asheville, North Carolina, nestled in the shadows of the magnificent Blue Ridge Mountains, firefighter/paramedic Brendan Williams barely has time for himself
- [Grantham-Michael Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/grantham-michael-series/) - Portrait - Book #1 Once upon a time, when she believed in fairy tales, ten-year-old Lianna Chandler had a dream. As the princess of a faraway land, she stood by the shoreline at sunset as her prince galloped toward her on a magnificent white horse. Now, sixteen years later and happily prince-less, Lianna co-manages an
- [Portrait](https://joanndurgin.com/books/portrait/) - Portrait - Book #1 Once upon a time, when she believed in fairy tales, ten-year-old Lianna Chandler had a dream. As the princess of a faraway land, she stood by the shoreline at sunset as her prince galloped toward her on a magnificent white horse. Now, sixteen years later and happily prince-less, Lianna co-manages an
- [Let Your Light Shine](https://joanndurgin.com/books/let-your-light-shine/) - Let Your Light Shine - Book #10 From USA Today Bestselling Author, JoAnn Durgin, the beloved Lewis Legacy Series continues with a heartwarming, full-length novel for the Christmas season! Let Your Light Shine, Lewis Legacy 10, offers readers an intimate glimpse into the lives of two key TeamWork couples and their families in Texas, fifteen
- [Wondrous Love Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/wondrous-love-series/) - Love So Amazing - The Wondrous Love Series, Book #1 Dance instructor Ava Carlisle lost her fiancé in a tragic car accident. Pedicab owner/operator Sawyer Mancini understands her pain all too well. Ava and Sawyer aren’t looking for love when they meet outside an Indianapolis, Indiana hotel. Drawn to one another, these two lonely souls
- [Thee Will I Honor](https://joanndurgin.com/books/thee-will-i-honor/) - After serving two tours of duty in Afghanistan, First Lieutenant Matthew Henry Martin, returns to Meadowvale, his beloved hometown nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Wounded in a roadside IED attack that killed two of his comrades, Matt’s devastating leg injury ended his military aspirations. At 25, he’s earned his degree but unemployed
- [Books](https://joanndurgin.com/books/) - Please see the Lewis Legacy Series Page for more detailed information about my Lewis Legacy Series books. The Treasured Vow Series Thee Will I Cherish - Treasured Vow Series, Book #1 Armed with her MBA degree, Gabriella Martin is ready to face the world. She’s gained valuable experience the past year as the interim CFO of
- [Starlight Christmas Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/starlight-christmas-series/) - Meet Me Under the Mistletoe - Starlight Christmas Series, Book #1 Captain Jacob Marston, Starlight, Iowa's wounded hometown hero, made a long ago promise to the Lord: he won't kiss a woman until he knows she's "the one" he'll marry. Now, at age twenty-eight, the rugged firefighter questions if it'll ever happen. Then he
- [Heart’s Design Novels](https://joanndurgin.com/books/hearts-design-novels/) - Heart's Design Caroline wants to grab hold of the future. Seth can’t let go of the past. Recent Wellesley College graduate Caroline Prescott’s future is set in stone. After Harvard Law School, she’ll step into place beside her two brothers in their father’s legendary Boston law firm. Caroline secretly longs for the quiet, peaceful
- [Serendipity Christmas Series](https://joanndurgin.com/books/serendipity-christmas-series/) - The Christmas Challenge - Serendipity Christmas Series, Book #1 Serendipity: finding something valuable or delightful when you’re not looking for it and least expect it. Donovan Harper and Claire Morgan are more successful as co-owners of a thriving advertising agency in quaint Serendipity, Pennsylvania, than they were at navigating their romantic relationship. When an eccentric
- [Roundabout](https://joanndurgin.com/books/roundabout/) - Roundabout - Book #9 At 17, Jensen Callahan fled her small hometown of Justis, Texas, the night her daddy was murdered. From the wrong side of the tracks, and with lingering suspicions but no answers, Jensen found a safe haven with a kindly Christian widow in Houston. Thirteen years later, Jensen finally feels settled and
- [The Christmas Challenge](https://joanndurgin.com/books/the-christmas-challenge/) - The Christmas Challenge, Serendipity Christmas Series, Book #1 Serendipity: finding something valuable or delightful when you’re not looking for it and least expect it. Donovan Harper and Claire Morgan are more successful as co-owners of a thriving advertising agency in quaint Serendipity, Pennsylvania, than they were at navigating their romantic relationship. When an eccentric
- [A Serendipity Christmas](https://joanndurgin.com/books/a-serendipity-christmas/) - A Serendipity Christmas, Serendipity Christmas Series, Book #2 The holiday season has rolled around once again, and the townspeople of quaint Serendipity, Pennsylvania, are preparing for their annual Christmas Challenge. This year, the funds raised from the various events and activities will benefit the continuing relief efforts in the aftermath of a brutal hurricane
- [Thee Will I Cherish](https://joanndurgin.com/books/thee-will-i-cherish/) - Armed with her MBA degree, Gabriella Martin is ready to face the world. She’s gained valuable experience the past year as the interim CFO of her parents’ highly successful Choose Me! Christian marriage ministry, but is that what she’s destined to do the rest of her career? While she considers her options, Gabriella returns home
- [The Valentine Verse](https://joanndurgin.com/books/the-valentine-verse/) - The Valentine Verse Valentine’s Day isn’t just for February 14th anymore! Love should be celebrated every day of the year. At least that’s Thornton Fielding’s philosophy. In spite of a few false starts in the arena of love, he holds out hope he’ll eventually find the woman of his dreams. The problem? He loves his
- [Gentle Like the Rain](https://joanndurgin.com/books/gentle-like-the-rain/) - Gentle Like the Rain (A Heart's Design Novel) After Isabella Caccavale’s Aunt Clara marched into her Hartford marketing firm and announced, “God told me to retire and sell my general store in Evergreen—to you,” Isabella’s life plunged into a tailspin. Fourteen months later, as the new owner of Mahoney’s General Store, she’s explaining the
- [Contact](https://joanndurgin.com/contact/) - I would love to hear your comments and suggestions. Click on the icons below to view my social networking pages. Follow me on BookBub and be notified automatically of my new releases! Fill in the form to contact me online
- [By Grace Draw Near](https://joanndurgin.com/books/by-grace-draw-near/) - By Grace Draw Near - The Wondrous Love Series, Book #3 Eric Masterson never expected to be promoted from cyclist to an executive position in his friend Sawyer Mancini’s successful pedicab business. His new job includes scouting out locations in Indianapolis and introduces him to many people with inspiring stories. One of the more fascinating
- [Daydreams](https://joanndurgin.com/books/daydreams/) - Daydreams - Book #4 It’s early December 2002, and Amy Jacobsen is living the dream: a job she loves with a trendy New York City magazine, a Manhattan walk-up inherited from her grandfather, and a busy social life without the unwanted complication of a steady boyfriend. During dinner one evening with her Wall Street
- [Pursuit](https://joanndurgin.com/books/pursuit/) - Pursuit - Book #8 From the time he was a little boy, all Will Lewis wanted to do was ride a rocket ship to the stars. Now, more than three decades later, NASA Commander William Jordan Lewis prepares to lead his STS-777 Pursuit shuttle crew on a six-week mission to the International Space Station. Nothing
- [Prelude](https://joanndurgin.com/books/prelude/) - Prelude - Prequel to The Lewis Legacy Series The exciting prequel to the popular, beloved contemporary Christian romance Lewis Legacy Series, Prelude is the love story of Samuel J. Lewis and Sarah Jordan, parents to Sam Lewis, the core character of The Lewis Legacy Series. Prelude will give insights into Sam’s family history in this
- [Whisper to My Heart](https://joanndurgin.com/books/whisper-to-my-heart/) - Whisper to My Heart The unlikely romance between a concert pianist and a construction worker. After a decade of touring the globe, Manhattan-based classical concert pianist Annalise Redmond needs a break. What’s a Juilliard-trained musician to do when she wants to live a “normal” life for six weeks? Weston Galloway, a former firefighter and
- [Heart's Design](https://joanndurgin.com/books/hearts-design/) - Heart's Design Caroline wants to grab hold of the future. Seth can’t let go of the past.Recent Wellesley College graduate Caroline Prescott’s future is set in stone. After Harvard Law School, she’ll step into place beside her two brothers in their father’s legendary Boston law firm. Caroline secretly longs for the quiet, peaceful life and
- [Short Stories](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/) - Meet Me Under the Mistletoe - Starlight Christmas Series, Book #1 Captain Jacob Marston, Starlight, Iowa's wounded hometown hero, made a long ago promise to the Lord: he won't kiss a woman until he knows she's "the one" he'll marry. Now, at age twenty-eight, the rugged firefighter questions if it'll ever happen. Then he meets
- [Starlight, Star Bright](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/starlight-star-bright/) - Starlight, Star BrightDante Moretti, Texas-born goalie of an Italian World Cup champion team, expects Starlight, Iowa will be only a blip on the radar of his life. Grabbing a quick meal at Barney’s Diner during the holidays, Dante meets two women who capture his heart in very different ways. Then his rental car won’t start
- [Sleigh Ride Together with You](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/sleigh-ride-together-with-you/) - Sleigh Ride Together with YouAs the popular television co-host of Wake Up, Des Moines! Nicole Reardon has achieved her dream. So why has the network sent “image maker” Alex Kingsfield to the station? The irritatingly handsome man is also the first man she’s been attracted to since Jake Marston dumped her three years ago in
- [Meet Me Under the Mistletoe](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/meet-me-under-the-mistletoe/) - Meet Me Under the MistletoeCaptain Jacob Marston, Starlight, Iowa's wounded hometown hero, made a long ago promise to the Lord: he won't kiss a woman until he knows she's "the one" he'll marry. Now, at age twenty-eight, the rugged firefighter questions if it'll ever happen. Then he meets his best friend's sister, Julia Sinclair, and
- [Love So Amazing](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/love-so-amazing/) - Love So Amazing - The Wondrous Love Series, Book #1Dance instructor Ava Carlisle lost her fiancé in a tragic car accident. Pedicab owner/operator Sawyer Mancini understands her pain all too well. Ava and Sawyer aren’t looking for love when they meet outside an Indianapolis, Indiana hotel. Drawn to one another, these two lonely souls discover
- [Echoes of Edinburgh](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/echoes-of-edinburgh/) - Echoes of EdinburghTo honor her dying father’s wishes, Chicago stockbroker Shelby Harmon promises to deliver a letter addressed to “Robert Nichols, Personal & Confidential.” Her quest to find Robert leads her to a most unlikely place: the Castlehill Gardens outside Scotland’s Edinburgh Castle. Who is this man and what is his connection to Harmony Lane, her
- [Twin Hearts](https://joanndurgin.com/books/twin-hearts/) - Twin Hearts - Book #3Joshua Grant is a man redeemed. He’s worked hard to put the past behind him. A mergers and acquisitions attorney in a prestigious Baton Rouge law firm, he pours his energies into his career, hurricane relief efforts, and numerous civic and charitable causes. A near-fatal event in the life of a
- [Second Time Around](https://joanndurgin.com/books/second-time-around/) - Second Time Around - Book #2Marc Thompson is on top of the world—a newlywed with a beautiful wife, the owner of a thriving Boston sports advertising agency, and a century-old home they’re renovating in the suburbs. Then the unthinkable happens. Two months after the wedding, Marc sits in a hospital emergency waiting room after Natalie
- [Moonbeams](https://joanndurgin.com/books/moonbeams/) - Moonbeams - Book #5 He represents nothing she ever wanted. And offers everything she needs. She’s everything he needs. And wants nothing from him. When their paths collide, can two people from different worlds dream of a future together? Expect the unexpected.Mitch Jacobsen’s younger sister, Amy Warnick, has tried to pair him off with her
- [Enchantment](https://joanndurgin.com/books/enchantment/) - Enchantment - Book #6 Sam and Lexa Lewis and their TeamWork Missions volunteers are together again! A two-week mission brings them to New Mexico—the Land of Enchantment—as they work on a church building alongside their new friends in the One Nation under God congregation of Native American Christians. Outside forces, both unseen and overt, impede
- [Catching Serenity](https://joanndurgin.com/books/catching-serenity/) - Catching SerenityA woman torn apart by secrets. A man held prisoner by the truth. Can the greatest love of all set them both free? Serenity McClaren had it all before her life crumbled around her like the sand castles on her beloved beach, causing her to flee Croisette Shores and the only home she’d ever known.
- [Awakening](https://joanndurgin.com/books/awakening/) - I'm so blessed that many readers have wholeheartedly embraced and welcomed Sam (Lewis) and Lexa (Clarke) and their lively TeamWork crew into their lives! Sam and Lexa are my core characters, and they become mentors for other key members of their TeamWork Missions volunteer crew as well as three of Sam's siblings. Throughout this long
- [Abide](https://joanndurgin.com/books/abide/) - Abide - Book #7 Catherine "Caty" Lewis is thrilled to be home again with her family and friends. After working as a chief accountant for a multinational oil corporation in Dallas and then Lubbock the past five years, she’s been transferred to their new world headquarters in downtown Houston. Before she can even inhabit her
- [Love So Divine](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/love-so-divine/) - Love So Divine - The Wondrous Love Series, Book #3After enduring a rough childhood in Chicago, youth pastor Chase Landers loves his work with inner city kids in Indianapolis. Chase’s prayers to find a woman who can handle the demands and stress of a man called to full-time ministry have gone unanswered. Resigned to a
- [Perchance to Dream](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/perchance-to-dream/) - Perchance to Dream Ellie Franklin has known Ryan Sullivan her entire life. As their Christmas wedding approaches, Ryan is expected home from his second deployment to Afghanistan. Excitement is in the air as Ellie prepares for his homecoming, and the citizens of Cade’s Corner, Ohio, anxiously await the wedding of their hometown sweethearts.When an unforeseen event
- [My Life](https://joanndurgin.com/my-life/) - I like to say I’ve been around in the nicest sense. Meaning that I’m a native of southern Indiana, but have also lived in Texas (Dallas), California (Visalia, Riverside and Moreno Valley), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and Massachusetts (Burlington). More specifically, I lived in Big D when J.R. Ewing sat on the wall outside our downtown office
- [Starlight in Her Eyes](https://joanndurgin.com/short-stories/starlight-in-her-eyes/) - Starlight in Her Eyes Colin Young embraces the Christmas season as the new television co-host of Wake Up, Philadelphia! His fun and spontaneous “Out and About” segments in the City of Brotherly Love are a ratings winner. Only one problem—the beautiful but intriguing assistant assigned to help make his transition easier doesn’t seem to like him
- [Writing Journey](https://joanndurgin.com/writing-journey/) - And the man said... "Peaches!" It’s interesting how the Lord affirmed in my mind that Awakening was the “one” the Lord wanted me to pursue getting published first. Even though it’s the first in a series, I had written a number of stand-alone books prior to this one, and I was in the middle of