Linda Chaikin Books In Order

Port Royal

The scene is Jamaica in the 1700s a world of smuggling, slaves, and sugar plantations. A British viscount turned pirate meets a woman with a noble cause. Romance, adventure, and Christian history are interspersed in this exciting series.

The Pirate and His Lady

Emerald Harwick finds herself caught in two skirmishes: a brutal pirate war over buried treasure, and a tumutuous battle for the heart of the man she loves. A romance to intrigue yu.

Jamaican Sunset

In book 3 of The Buccaneers series, true love and adventure follow Emerald and Baret from the breathtaking beauty of Jamaica to the prestigious riches of England’s Royal Court.

For Whom the Stars Shine

In the tumult surrounding Hawaii’s struggle with her monarchy, one woman is determined to bring God’s love to a hurting people. Book 1 in the new JEWEL OF THE PACIFIC series Set in the exotic and fascinating era surrounding the reign of Hawaii’s last queen, best selling author Linda Chaikin’s newest novel, For Whom the Stars Shine, recounts the untold story of Christianity’s true impact on Hawaii’s history. With her typical imagination and skilled recreation of historical detail, Chaikin introduces us to a paradise in trouble and one woman’s struggle to live her faith. Eden Derrington has always lived on the periphery of her influential family circle. Having lost her mother at a tender age, Eden’s caring aunt and uncle raised her, allowing her father, Jerome, to continue his ministry to those afflicted with deadly leprosy. Now on the verge of adulthood, Eden is thrilled to travel to San Francisco for nurse’s training so she can follow in the steps of her parents. Yet her love for the Hawaiian people and concern for their tenuous future drives Eden home, where she to bring some measure of peace and perhaps uncover the truth beneath the mysterious silence cloaking her mother’s death. At the Derrington Plantation, Eden is torn between the wishes of her grandfather and the two warring stepbrothers who hold the keys to the long hidden secret. As the political situation worsens and the Hawaiian monarchy struggles to retain power, Eden’s heart battles within her as she yearns for the embrace of truth and love.

The Spoils of Eden

Amid the looming spiritual and political crisis in Hawaii, Eden Derrington and Rafe Easton are thrust into a conflict that will forever change their beloved Hawaii and threaten to derail their future marriage. When Eden, representing the Hawaiian Board of Health at Kalihi Leper Hospital is sent to Rafe’s plantation to take baby Kip to Kalihi to quarantine him indefinitely, an emotional volcano of suspected betrayal threatens to turn their love relationship to ashes. Someone has alerted the Board that the baby Rafe saved and brought to Honolulu came from the Kalawao leper colony. Since the law strictly forbids children born of lepers from being adopted Kip s future seems destined toward tragedy. And what of Eden and Rafe after their engagement is broken? When Eden s father, Dr. Jerome, returns to open a clinic at Kalawao, she joins her father, leaving Rafe to run for the legislature and attempt to change the children s law.

Hawaiian Crosswinds

Amid the looming spiritual and political crisis in Hawaii, Rafe Easton and Eden Derrington are thrust into a conflict that will forever change their beloved Hawaii. Hawaii, home of the early missionaries, becomes an empire of sugar and pineapple built by their children and grandchildren. By 1892 the Treasure of the Pacific is caught in a political revolution between those supporting Queen Liliuokalani, and the new Hawaiians determined to see the Stars and Stripes waving over Iolani Palace. Rafe Easton hears the dark news that Townsend Derrington is in San Francisco prowling about the house on Nob Hill belonging to Parker Judson, Rafe’s partner in the pineapple plantation. Rafe s mother, Celestine, is keeping out of sight with baby Kip inside the house. The news is dire enough to convince Rafe to alter his near term plans in Honolulu. Having come to an agreement with his fianc e, Eden Derrington, to allow her to work for a year on Molokai at her father s medical clinic while meeting her dying mother, a leper, Rafe makes swift plans to take a steamer to San Francisco to hunt down Townsend who is guilty of Rafe s father s death, and now stalking Celestine and Kip.

Monday’s Child

The first book in bestselling author Linda Chaikin’s new series of contemporary mystery/romances, Monday s Child was conceived in the poem Monday s child is fair of face; Tuesday s child is full of grace . Each book of this uncommon series uses a line from the poem to tell the story of a woman facing incredible odds as she searches to understand God s plan for her. For Krista von Burren, a beautiful model whose fair face and form have opened doors all over Europe, life seems perfect. Then Jordan Lucas appears. Jordan is working with an investigative journalist to uncover an international banking scandal dating back to Hitler s Germany. When he tells Krista that the heirloom ring she wears did not come from her German grandmother, as she thought, but from his aunt who died in a concentration camp, Krista is stunned. Could her grandfather and father, both Swiss bankers, possibly have been involved in such a thing? Dark ripples of fear and haunting guilt begin to move through her family, and Krista suddenly finds herself involved in a stunning, unforeseen series of events. In the midst of her search for truth, a tragic accident changes Krista s life in ways she could never have imagined. She comes to learn that her true source of happiness lies not in her fair face, but in her faith in God. And she finds the kind of love she has always prayed for a love that goes beyond outward beauty and reaches to her very heart and soul. Monday s Child is sure to appeal to Linda s current fans and introduce many new readers to great Christian fiction.

Tuesday’s Child

In the summer of 1940, with France on the verge of surrender to Germany, Valli Chattaine, a star in the Paris Ballet Company, must escape Paris and return home to French Morocco. A French Foreign Legionnaire, hired by her family, attempts to get her safely out of Paris. Marc Durell, an adventurous and capable soldier, also brings Valli a secret letter from her older sister, Gisele. But in going home, Valli falls into a maze of dark deceptions and dangers. Through it all she comes to a deeper understanding of God’s grace, which is so much greater than her own. His grace helps to bring her and her family beyond devastating circumstances in Casablanca and is equally present in her own romance with the charismatic Legionnaire.

Wednesday’s Child

For Gemma Alcott, daughter of business tycoon Burgess T. Alcott, III, the summer of 1929 is a season for picnics, sailing parties, and romance. But life becomes difficult when the Alcott wealth is lost in the Wall Street crash known as Black Tuesday. Gemma and her younger sister, Melody, are suddenly destitute. In their time of need, Kace Morgan, a distant relative appears and Gemma realizes she still has choices. But can she handle the loss of all she has known and a new life that is far from the sheltering wealth she has grown up with? Wednesday’s Child might have woe, but life is never so dark that God cannot deliver His own into paths of light. Book 3 in the series.

Thursday’s Child

Thursday’s Child is the newest adventure/romance in the popular A Day to Remember series by award winning author Linda Chaikin. When Paulette marries Garret Holden, she’s certain their love will last. Their first year is exciting and romantic until tragedy strikes. They suffer a bitter separation, and Paulette blames Garret. Then her uncle sends word from Greece that Garret has been shot and is hunted by German agents. When Paulette sets out on a perilous journey to find him, Hitler’s army is ready to storm Athens. ‘Thursday’s Child has far to go’ in her search for her husband and her own journey. Leaving a place of safety, Paulette puts herself into God’s hands to reconcile with the man she’s promised to love forever.

Friday’s Child

It’s World War II, and Vanessa Mortimer has turned the family estate into a temporary shelter for refugees. But in this place of sanctuary, trouble stirs. When Trevor, a wounded doctor, is accused of being a spy, Vanessa rallies to his defense. Yet even as she supports him, she cannot deny the convincing evidence that Scott, a RAF pilot, presents. As the two men seek to win her heart, Vanessa must decide whom to trust Trevor or Scott? Friday’s Child has a heart to love and give, but she also needs wisdom and prudence. Will she discover the truth before it’s too late? Book 5.

Tomorrow’s Treasure

Raised by her aunt and uncle at the rectory in the small English village of Grimston Way, lovely Evy Varley remembers little of her missionary parents and nothing of South Africa, the land where she was orphaned during the Zulu War of 1878. But when Sir Rogan Chantry, the arrogant and handsome son of the local Squire, accuses Evy’s mother of stealing the infamous Kimberly Black Diamond, Evy sets out to prove the rogue wrong and clear her mother s name.

Secrets abound, however, from the diamond mines of South Africa to the halls of her own beloved rectory. Strangers come to Grimston Way for their own mysterious purposes, a stunned Evy finds that her own aunt and uncle may have concealed disturbing truths about her family, and the dashing Sir Rogan has his own reasons to seek the missing diamond.

Yet despite Rogan s seemingly rakish ways and the class differences that render a romance between them impossible, Evy finds herself drawn to the man who was once her childhood friend and now holds the keys to her heart. Faced with a dangerous past and an uncertain future, Evy must draw upon her wits and her faith to pursue Tomorrow s Treasure.

A story of faith, danger and romance, Tomorrow s Treasure is a masterpiece of historical suspense fiction.

Yesterday’s Promise

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST SELLING SILK SERIES OVER 150,000 COPIES IN PRINT!He fought to seek his fortune. Would he lose a greater treasure: the love he left behind? As the son of the squire of Grimston Way, aristocrat Rogan Chantry has fought hard to win his independence from Sir Julien Bley and the British South Africa Company. Now, his pursuit of a mysterious deposit of gold, marked on a map willed to him by his murdered uncle, Henry Chantry, is challenged by a new complication: the impending British colonization of South Africa. Can Sir Rogan find the gold in the midst of escalating tensions among the native tribesmen, the missionaries sent to win them, and the new colonists? Meanwhile, Evy Varley, the woman Rogan loves back in England, is headed for a brave yet dangerous confrontation with Henry’s killer but at what price? With so much against Rogan and Evy, a reunion seems improbable, if not impossible. Can yesterday s promise hold them faithful to the hope of future freedom and a victorious love?

Today’s Embrace

She gambled with her husband’s trust. At stake is everything. Evy Varley’s marriage to Rogan Chantry is all she had hoped it would be until she finds out that she is pregnant with a honeymoon baby. Fearing that Rogan won t allow her to travel while she is expecting, Evy plots to keep her pregnancy secret in order to accompany him to South Africa. Her thoughts are not only for her husband, but Evy is determined to travel to Bulawayo, the new mission station of Dr. Jakob van Buren the one man who can help Evy to finally clear her mother s name. After she and Rogan set out to sea, however, Evy discovers that she has gone too far in her deceit, and the damage to her marriage may be irreversible. Matters only worsen in Africa, where malaria, murder, and an African uprising all take their toll and where Rogan and Evy must fight not only for their love, but also for their very lives.

Arabian Winds

As World War I breaks upon the deserts of Arabia in 1917, Allison Wescott, a young nurse, arrives in British Cairo, torn between her love for a handsome officer and her feelings for a minister working in Oswald Chambers’s Zeitoun camp.

Lions of the Desert

Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser’s Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret Holden again after his return from London, and their previous romantic but rocky relationship is resumed. But the man she has been thinking of marrying has also arrived to serve as a chaplain with historical Oswald Chambers, who is ministering to British and Australian troops. In the dark and trying times of world war, Allison most come to grips with her divided heart and make a choice that she will live with for the rest of her life.

Valiant Hearts

Valiant Hearts concludes the sweeping World War I saga begun in Arabian Winds and continued in Lions of the Desert. Having at last declared his love for Allison Wescott, a Christian missionary nurse supporting British troops in Egypt, daring British Intelligence Officer Colonel Bret Holden has disappeared with a secret treasure from the ancient tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh! Frantic, filled with fear, Allison determines to find him, but before she can do so, she’s swept up in the exciting events of the great war breaking across Palestine. It is when she least expects it that she finally finds Bret again. He’s wounded and they become trapped together behind enemy lines near Jerusalem…
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Empire Builders

Returning home after being shanghaied four years earlier, Tavish Wilder seeks revenge against railroad giant Kingston Montgomery, who had murdered Tavish’s wife and stolen his vast expanse of Washington timberland. By the author of the Heart of India series. IP.

Silk

Two worlds clash as a young English heiress and an orphaned boy, an ‘untouchable,’ become inextricably entwined,

Coral Kendall is an heiress to the Kingscote Silk Plantation in northern India in the last decade of the 1700s. Breaching cultural boundaries and shunning the scorn of her wealthy English family, she adopts a young orphaned boy, an ‘Untouchable’ from the bottom of the Hindu class system, and brings him into her home. Despite their contrasting cultures and backgrounds, the bond of love that develops between Coral and Gem is that of a mother and son. But tragedy strikes when the boy is abducted and the body later found in the river.

Was there a reason to believe that Gem did not perish? Was the boy’s true identity what she had been led to believe? How could she discover the truth?

One man may hold the key to her son. Can she discover the truth and win the struggle for the seagoing trader’s heart?

A fascinating new historical series from the time of William Carey.

Under Eastern Stars

In the exotic setting of the jungle frontier, betrayal and love lie just beneath the surface. Dissent among the powerful Kendall Dynasty is threatening to erupt over Coral Kendall’s determination to begin a school for India’s forgotten children, the Untouchables. Lurking ominously in the background is Sir Hugo Roxbury, the influential and unrelenting ambassador of the East India Company, who is just as determined Coral not succeed. Two very different men wait in the shadows: the adventurous Major Jace Buckley, whose knowledge of India’s dark underworld could be the key to finding Coral’s adopted son; and the handsome Dr. Ethan Boswell, who has offered Coral a safe and secure escape from the turmoil of her heart. Coral must choose whom to trust and the decision will determine the course of her future. The exciting sequel to Silk!

Kingscote

A Web of Treacherous deceit, and a silk heiress determined to find love in the land she calls home. JACE BUCKLEY, the dashing British officer, has promised to return to Kingscote, bringing with him news of Coral Kendall’s missing adopted son. Coral is overjoyed, but her first priority is a mission school for the untouchables on the silk plantation and the handsome Dr. Ethan Boswell has committed to fulfill Coral’s dream. Coral has long delayed choosing between the two very different men, but her impending decision is overshadowed by mysterious threats against her and the school Ethan has struggled to build. When the precious Hindi scripture portions given her by William Carey are found in ashes on the floor of her room, Coral realizes that she must somehow bridge the cultural dissension before it destroys Kingscote. Danger follows Jace in his search for Corel’s abducted son, and the boy’s mysterious roots leave Jace entangled in a web of treacherous deceit. Will Jace return to Kingscote in time to claim the woman he loves? Or will the flames of hate destroy all in its path?The Thilling Heart of India Finale!

Morningsong (By:Patricia H. Rushford)

Popularity and fame have created a glimmering fa ade in Shanna O’Brian’s world, but when the spotlight fades, even her success fails to penetrate the darkness of reality. Faced with the heart rending loss of her mother and the man who fashioned her country music career, Shanna must return to the place where her dreams have been both nurtured and shattered Morningsong. The pinnacle of Shanna’s distress occurs when she is confronted by the husband who left her six years before. Joshua Morgan’s claims of unwavering love, coupled with Shanna’s need to reclaim possession of a life she’s too often surrendered to the hands of others, lead her down a path of self discovery that is cruelly threatened by unseen forces. Can the mayhem surrounding Shanna be resolved despite her fledgling faith in herself, her God, and the man determined to redeem her trust?Patricia Rushford is best known for her popular mystery novels from the Jennie McGrady series and the Helen Bradley series, but she’d never deny that she loves a good romance, too! Morningsong was born out of her fascination with the music industry and her many years as a counselor and expert on issues pertaining to the family.

Swords and Scimitars

Historical RomanceLarge Print EditionFramed for a murder he didnt commit, Tancred Redwan is a knight torn between his fathers Norman blood and the Moorish blood of his mother. Forced to flee for his life, Tancred travels the golden hills of Palermo to the seven jeweled hills of the Byzantine capitol. Caught up in the turbulent events surrounding the Peasant Crusade, he is again forced to make a difficult choice as Christian Europe arms for the First Crusade to rescue the Holy Lands from infidels.

Golden Palaces

Clothed with the promise of salvation, the knights of the first crusade fight gallantly to reclaim the Holy Land but only their courage can save them from the infidels. Helena of the Nobility has long resigned herself to the control of her aunt Lady Irene, a woman for whom betrayal is commonplace. Having banished Helen’s mother from Constantinople, Irene stalks the palace courtyard while Helena secretly plots her escape. Determined to dissolve any thoughts of a union between Helena and her son Philip, Irene is now intent on securing Helen’s hand in marriage to a Muslim prince. Helpless to elude the powerful Lysander family, Helena turns to one man she believes loves her enough to prevent her demise. But Philip Lysander is no match for the cunning temptations Irene plants in his path. Betrayed and heartbroken, Helena has no other choice but to turn to the rebel Tancred Redwan, a man in whose heart she fears and in whose honor she finds safety. When war and treachery threaten to tear them apart, only his sword offers a way of escape

Daughter of Silk

Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois. The Court is magnificent; its regent, Catherine de Medici, deceptively charming…
and the circumstances, darker than Rachelle could possibly imagine. At a time in history when the tortures of the Bastille and the fiery stake are an almost casual consequence in France, a scourge of recrimination is moving fast and furious against the Huguenots and as the Queen Mother’s political intrigues weave a web of deception around her, Rachelle finds herself in imminent danger. Hope rests in warning the handsome Marquis Fabien de Vendome of the wicked plot against his kin. But to do so, Rachelle must follow a perilous course.

Written on Silk

A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people…
Rachelle Dushane Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk making family, has come back to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown. Recruited into the evil Queen Mother’s ring of women spies, she must use her wits to preserve her honor and the lives of her fellow Huguenots. Marquis Fabien de Vendome has also returned from a buccaneering venture against Spain. The Queen Mother plans to implicate him in an assassination. But Fabien has designs of his own. A man and a woman caught up in history’s deadly swirl and love’s uncertainties seek to escape the venom of Madame le Serpent. Faith in Christ must uphold them, and all who stand alone, in a city gone diabolically mad.

Threads of Silk

Royal French Court intrigue surrounds a beautiful young couturiere and her dashing nobleman husband as Queen Mother Catherine de Medici unfolds her devious scheme to preserve her reign. Rachelle Macquinet, couturiere from one of France’s most celebrated silk making families, is under palace arrest at Fontainebleau. While creating a royal gown, she is ensnared, along with her husband, Marquis Fabien de Vendome, in the Queen Mother’s secret murderous scheme. Fabien has returned from a venture against Spain to claim Rachelle as his bride, but not without a price: the Queen Mother plans to implicate him in an assassination! Fabien and Rachelle are caught in history’s deadly swirl and love’s uncertainties as they seek to escape to the safety of England. Faith in Christ must uphold them in a time of great persecution that demands greater courage.

Captive Heart

Lady Amber Harwick Buckington, a noble English beauty who hails from Jamaica, has departed from Port Royal Bay to visit the governor’s family in English Barbados. Her journey is interrupted when the ship she is sailing on is plundered by Captain Marc Dubr

Island Bride

Award winning novelist Linda Chaikin brings her series to a rousing conclusion in the fast paced trilogy with a grand finale complete with sword fighting, sea battles, and the quest for silver.

Desert Rose

Jack Halliday struck it rich in the 1860 silver boom in Virginia City! As Annalee and her mother travel to join him in Nevada, their joy turns to ashes. They re unprepared for the savage mountain winter that traps them in a desperate struggle for survival. At this critical moment, lawman Brett Wilder arrives in town. He’s looking for the gunslinger who crippled his father and he suspects Jack. When Annalee and Brett meet as they each search for Jack, they must face what they believe about the sovereignty of God, justice, and mercy. They also must discover whether their growing love for one another will melt like snow into an icy mountain stream or bloom like a rose in the desert.

Desert Star

In this captivating sequel to Desert Rose, popular novelist Linda Chaikin takes readers out west for a spirited romance. Callie Halliday glitters as she sweeps across the stage in Virginia City. With her career on the rise, Callie is determined to find a respectable husband. And Rick Delance, a gunfighter with a dangerous reputation, doesn t fit the bill. But when someone breaks into Callie’s dressing room and she survives some mishaps, it s obvious someone wants to harm her. Turning to the only man who can protect her, she contacts Rick Delance. As the actress and gunslinger face danger together, will the young woman s heart soften? Will she become a glittering star in the desert…
or will she follow her heart?

The Midwife of St. Petersburg

The Flames of Love and Revolution

It is Czarist Russia, 1914. Karena Peshkev dreams of escaping her family’s country estate and attending medical school. But each year, as she watches her hopes of being accepted to the Imperial College of Medicine slip further away, she much content herself with working alongside her mother, the village s Jewish midwife.

On a visit to her cousin s sumptuous mansion, Karena gets a taste of Russian high society and meets Colonel Alexsandr Kronstadt. Their attraction is immediate, but they can never act on it. Alex is meant for Karena s cousin, the general s daughter, a superior match politically and socially.

But when the accusations of Bolshevik conspiracy tear her family apart, Karena and her mother flee to St. Petersburg. The Okhrana the Russian secret police are convinced Karena is a Bolshevik traitor, in league with the rebel party s leader. Certain she is guilty of murder and assassination, they re determined to hunt her down. Alex risks his career and his life to protect her from afar, but will it be enough? Will he find her in time to save her from false accusations and declare his love?

Vibrant with historical detail and richly woven themes of danger, romance, and God s faithfulness, The Midwife of St. Petersburg is an eloquent tale portraying the beauty and madness of a country that is about to change forever.