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Shirl Henke (born August 18, 1942) is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has eclectic tastes and has written historical, contemporary, western, and regency-themed books. She also writes mystery novels using the pen name Alexa Hunt. Some of her works have been translated into other languages. Biography She was born Shirl Nehrt, fifteen years after her next oldest sibling. Her father died while she was in her teens, leaving Henke alone with her mother. Henke entered the University of Missouri immediately after graduating from high school. In her first year at school she met her future husband, Jim Henke, in a shared Spanish class. Although Henke originally planned to become a journalist, she eventually earned a B.A. and an M.A. in history (both from the University of Missouri). After her graduation, she worked as a cashier for a loan company, a public welfare caseworker, the assistant circulation manager for a small newspaper, and an administrator of a federal information program for the elderly. After earning a job at the university in Ohio where her husband was a tenured professor, for fifteen years Henke taught history, gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies, freshman composition, and remedial reading. Henke finally sold her first novel in 1986. Two years later, she left her teaching career to become a full-time writer. In her Henke has made the USA Today bestseller list and the Waldenbooks and B. Dalton Bestsellers list 10 times each. Her husband took early retirement in order to assist her burgeoning writing career. Henke lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she recently took a landscaping design course at the Missouri Botanical Garden and has designed the landscaping for her yard. She and her husband Jim, a retired professor of English, have a son, Matt. Henke is a member of the Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Missouri Romance Writers, Sisters in Crime, Novelists Inc., and International Thriller Writers. Bibliography Romance Old California Couplet Golden Lady (1986) Love Unwilling (1987) Texas Trilogy Cactus Flower (1988) Moon Flower (1989) Night Flower (1990) Discovery Duet Paradise And More (1991) Return to Paradise (1992) Santa Fe Trilogy Night Wind's Woman (1991) White Apache's Woman (1993) Deep As the Rivers (1997) Colorado Couplet Terms of Love (1992) Terms of Surrender (1993) Blackthorne Love a Rebel, Love a Rogue (1994) Wicked Angel (2001) Wanton Angel (2002) American Lord Yankee Earl (2003) Rebel Baron (2004) Texas Viscount (2004) Shawnee Lord (2018) Novels Capture the Sun (1988) Summer Has No Name (1990) Bouquet (1994) A Fire in the Blood (1994) Bride of Fortune (1996) Broken Vows (1998) The Endless Sky (1998) Sundancer (1999) McCrory's Lady (2002) Finders Keepers (2005) Sneak and Rescue (2006) The River Nymph (2008) Pale Moon Stalker (2008) Chosen Woman (2009) Love Lessons at Midnight (TBA) Omnibus The Topaz Man Presents: Presents a Dream Come True (1994) (with Jennifer Blake, Georgina Gentry, Anita Mills and Becky Lee Weyrich) Secrets of the Heart (1994) (with Madeline Baker, Jennifer Blake, Georgina Gentry and Patricia Rice) Unwrapped (2004) (with Nina Bangs, Claudia Dain) Captive's Return / Finders Keepers (2005) (with Catherine Mann) Thrillers (as Alexa Hunt) Corrupts Absolutely (2005) Homeland Security (2007) References Shirl Henke Official Website Romantic Times Article. Discover the Shirl Henke popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Shirl Henke books.
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Terms of Surrender
Shirl HenkeTHE GAMBLER The roguishly handsome Welshman Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado, within weeks of riding into town. But there was one "property" he would give all t...
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Terms of Love
Shirl HenkeAN 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 m...
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Rebel Baron
Shirl HenkeA 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...
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Falling in Love
Shirl HenkeA Novella Denver, Colorado In the rambunctious American west of 1875, Ian Warfield is an English nobleman disguised as a lowly groom with a lumbering English sheepdog named ...
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The Cherokee
Shirl HenkeTHE HALFBREED Ross Chisholm is a loner. No one in Virginia City knows where he came from, only that he is a hired gun who works for a British mining company. His sole friend is a b...
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The River Nymph
Shirl HenkeTHE 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 clothe...
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Moon Flower
Shirl HenkeLittle more than a spoiled boy, Raphael Flamenco leaves New Orleans for the new Republic of Texas to drag his willful Yankee wife back to civilization. She is his “property” and sh...
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Love a Rebel... Love a Rogue
Shirl HenkeTHE REBEL – Quintin Blackthorne defies his king and is taught by his brutal father to mistrust all women…until he weds a strongwilled beauty who ignites his heart with a desire he ...
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Wanton Angel
Shirl HenkeA FREESPIRITED WOMAN Allowed to run wild in the Georgia backwoods with her brothers and Creek Indian cousins, Beth Blackthorne has no des...
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Golden Lady
Shirl HenkeA MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY… Esteban Santandar, heir to a vast cattle empire in Sonora, had been educated in Europe and spent much of his life in gold rush California. Part Spanish ari...
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Pale Moon Stalker
Shirl HenkeSHE 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 ...
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Texas Viscount
Shirl HenkeTHE BRIT Prim Sabrina Edgewater, teacher of deportment, first encounters the rogue during a London dockside brawl that earns him the nickname, the "Texas Viscount." Personal...
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Broken Vows
Shirl HenkeThe Vow In the shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, fortunes are made and lives lost during the silver boom on the Comstock Lode. In this wild and dangerous era, Rebekah S...
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Loving Lucifer at Midnight
Shirl HenkeA WOMAN IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN… Lucifer is the code name of Sir Blake Hawksworth, Regency England’s most successful spy. Blake’s only failure was accidentally caused by an arr...
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Shawnee Lord
Shirl HenkeAN OUTCAST IN HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY Fox Barlow is known in England as the Shawnee Lord, the name given at Eton to an American with red Indian blood. He wears the mocking title as a b...
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Deep as the Rivers
Shirl HenkeA PROUD, LONELY MAN Colonel Samuel Shelby, special agent for President Madison, was given the most dangerous assignment of his career as the War of 1812 loomed over the Miss...
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Deadly Harvest
Shirl HenkeA MYSTERIOUS DRIFTER Adam Wade drifts into Napa Valley to work the vines at Chateau Beaumont while trying to escape a troubled past. The darkly handsome field hand feels drawn to J...
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Love Lessons at Midnight
Shirl HenkeLove Lessons at Midnight The Student Robert St, John flees a disastrous marriage to fight Bonaparte, but when the young widower inherits an earldom, he must re...
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Capture the Sun
Shirl HenkeA SORBONNE EDUCATED “SAVAGE” Half white, half Cheyenne, Hawk Sinclair straddles two worlds but does not belong to either. He and his white father hate each other. But Noah S...
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Heartstopper
Shirl HenkeA HIGHBROW SOCIETY DOC A successful cardiac surgeon from a socially prominent family, Dr. Corrie Waterstone has seen death in the OR, but never as it occurs in front of her horrifi...
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Wicked Angel
Shirl HenkeJocelyn 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...
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A Christmas Melody
Shirl HenkeA haunting melody and a warm fire brought them together Patrick Madigan feels he has been banished from sunny Nevada to the gray world of 1904 London. After his parent...
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Loving Lies At Midnight
Shirl HenkeSON 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 b...
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Love Unwilling
Shirl HenkeA 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 h...
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Cheyenne Lady
Shirl HenkeA RUTHLESS WOMAN OF BUSINESS Lorilee Auburn was known around Wyoming Territory as the "Cheyenne Lady", daughter of an English baroness. She owned vast interests in railroads, timbe...
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THE SILVER QUEEN
Shirl HenkeBlurb for SILVER QUEEN: A CUSSING, CRUDE, BULLWHIPWIELDING FEMALE WHO RUNS A SILVER EMPIRE Laura Davies is known in Colorado as the “silver queen”, the hellion daughter of R...
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A Fire in the Blood
Shirl HenkeWhen Jesse Robbins rode into Cheyenne, the notorious range detective was sure of three things: the townsfolk would scorn him as a halfbreed, the cattle thieves he had been hi...
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Dangerous Game
Shirl HenkeA CYNICAL SAN FRANCISCO COP Inspector Linda Drake is the SFPD's female version of "Dirty Harry." She has faced down gang leaders armed with Saturday night specials and contract kil...
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Love for Sail
Shirl HenkeA Novella The Barbary Coast of San Francisco, 1875 Sammie Goode is knocked unconscious in a farcical dockside brawl and awakens on the China Lucky. The first mate Stub is mi...
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Surprise Package
Shirl HenkeIt’s Christmas in New York City. Young lovers Gilly Newsom, an editor of romance novels, and Jeff Brandt, a struggling law student, share a number of surprises with each other…and ...
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Cactus Flower
Shirl HenkeJim 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 longtime secret agent for President Sam Houston. To fu...
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Sundancer
Shirl HenkeHIS NAME IS CAIN AND EVERYONE IN THE SIERRAS FEARS HIM With his Cheyenne brother’s blood on his hands, Cain is a halfbreed hired gun, hungry to prove himself to the white fa...
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Chosen Woman
Shirl HenkeTHE CHEYENNE SEER Since Fawn's childhood, images of the ambereyed, red prairie wolf have filled her dreams. After being educated in the white world, she returns to the Cheyenne to ...
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The Endless Sky
Shirl HenkeTHE WHITE WOLF In Boston he is known as Chase Remington, a bitter outsider, heir to a socially prominent dynasty that hides secrets more shocking than his own bastardy and h...
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Yankee Earl
Shirl HenkeA 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...
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TRAFFICKSTOPPER
Shirl HenkeRICH MEN AND DESPERATE GIRLS A millionaire's party explodes when security catches an older man sexually abusing a teenage girl and her kid sister in an upstairs bedroom. The...
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Billie Jo and the Valentine Crow
Shirl HenkeMailorder bride Billie Jo Mingo travels west with her pet crow Pecker to meet her husband, a man she assumes is too fat and old to get any local woman to marry him. ...
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Night Flower
Shirl HenkeNo man, with either Bowie knife or Colt, can best Lee Velasquez. As a youth of twentytwo, he returned to his ranch one day to find the body of his young bride, raped and killed by ...
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Return to Paradise
Shirl HenkeRigo de Las Casas has plied the brutal trade of mercenary, a sword for hire. He hates his “primitive” blood and despises the white father he mistakenly thinks abandoned him. Then, ...
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Bride of Fortune
Shirl HenkeSOLDIER of FORTUNE Nicholas Fortune is a warweary mercenary who has wandered the world searching for a home. Born in a New Orleans bordello, Nick has never belonged anywhere...
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The Defiant Debutant
Shirl HenkeRUNAWAY HEIRESS' PASSION IS TEACHING SCHOOL Born in a socially prominent eastern family, Sarah Farmington defies her greedy father by refusing an arranged marriage. Finding ...