


Books in series

#1
Black Hills Baby
2008
When Hollywood heart-throb Cooper Lindstrom needs money to get his late mother's homicidal bookie off his back, he jumps at the lifeline Black Hills postmaster Libby McGannon tosses his way. In Cooper's mind, their arrangement is his sperm in trade for a share in her family's gold mine. But the real pay off is her story—the one he plans to turn into a hit sitcom that will push him back on top. The hit show Coop saw coming. Love? Completely blindsided him.And the baby? Who could have guessed Cooper wanted to be a father? Too bad Libby—the woman he's fallen hard for—might never forgive him for turning her life into a joke for worldwide consumption. Not to mention the changes he's brought to the small Black Hills community of Sentinel Pass, where happily-ever-after isn't left to chance.

#2
Black Hills Billionaire
2016
Success can hide a multitude of secrets.
Hollywood’s "wunderkind" producer/director Shane Reynard risks more than a boatload of money when he agrees to set Cooper Lindstrom's new TV sitcom in the Black Hills. Reconnecting with Sentinel Pass local Jenna Murphy means facing a dark truth and inadvertently makes Jenna—his biggest regret—a target for the twin brother he hates—the sadistic deviant Shane has long suspected raped Jenna in college…and got away with it.
Neither love nor money can protect her from the past.
Jenna Murphy doesn't trust men easily. With valid reason. But Shane Reynard is different. The writer in her sees a tortured soul searching for redemption. Co-writing a Sentinel Passtime script with Shane opens the door to a future she never dared imagine—one that includes love. Until the past jeopardizes everything and reveals a truth she never saw coming.
Black Hills Billionaire is Book 2 in the 10-book Black Hills Rendezvous series. If you’re a fan of connected stories with complex, three-dimensional characters facing compelling challenges, you won’t want to miss this contemporary series set in the Black Hills of South Dakota from Debra Salonen—past winner of Romantic Times Reviewer's Career Achievement "Series Storyteller of the Year" award.
THE BLACK HILLS RENDEZVOUS BOOK #1: BLACK HILLS BABY - His sperm for a share in her gold mine? What could possibly go wrong? BOOK 2: BLACK HILLS BILLIONAIRE - What if his $$ isn’t enough to save his first—his only—love? BOOK 3: BLACK HILLS BAD BOY - Bad to the bone...in his dreams. BOOK #4: BLACK HILLS BACHELOR - A miner and a Hollywood princess? That sort of make-believe only happens in the movies. BOOK #5: BLACK HILLS NATIVE SON - A journey of discovery brings him the son he never knew, and the woman he was meant to love. BOOK #6: BLACK HILLS OUTCAST - Hiding out from life worked just fine…until he met Rachel. BOOK #7: BLACK HILLS WHITE KNIGHT - A white knight? Hardly. His suit is Armani—not armor. BOOK #8: BLACK HILLS RANCHER - Picking the right twin to be a role model for his daughter should be easy—not dangerous. BOOK #9: BLACK HILLS STRANGER - He’s no stranger to her. He’s her dream lover and worst nightmare combined. BOOK #10: BLACK HILLS LEGACY - Nothing like an unconscious doppelgänger to ruin a perfectly good day at the Mystery Spot.

#3
Black Hills Bad Boy
2016
Bad to the bone. Sort of.
Jack Treadwell's plan is simple: hop on his Harley and experience life. The grit. The heat. The passion of the biggest motorcycle rally in the Black Hills. For two life-changing weeks, he plans to escape from his boring routine as a Denver dentist. Look out, Sturgis, South Dakota, Jack's got a Harley and he's not afraid to ride it. Life can't get any better...until he meets single mom Katherine Robinson.
Kat has fallen victim to that love-at-first-sight feeling she calls "swoo" twice before. Two sons and two divorces later she's convinced only an idiot would fall for a RUB—rich urban biker. And the sexy one in her bar is can't even hold his liquor. But something about this guy gets to her.
Could the third time be her happily-ever-after charm? Or is this Black Hills bad boy here today, gone tomorrow? Like a dream. A crazy, sexy dream with lasting repercussions.

#4
Black Hills Bachelor
2016
Single by choice.That's what Mac McGannon tells himself. With both feet planted firmly on the ground—or in his family's gold mine beneath terra firma—Mac has no time for the "Hollywood types" that have invaded his hometown of Sentinel Pass. Even less for the beautiful TV "star" who needs his help. Any attraction he feels is pure illusion. But try telling that to his little daughter who believes Morgana Carlyle is a real life princess.Actors act.Morgana Carlyle doesn't let anyone peek beneath her glamorous, carefully crafted image—with good reason. She's a fraud. And, worse, her secret could derail the entire Sentinel Passtime production or—worse—break the hearts of a very special little girl and her father. The man she has no business loving. But try telling that to her heart.

#5
Black Hills Outcast
2016
Hiding out from life worked just fine…until he met Rachel.
Ask anyone in Sentinel Pass. They’ll confirm: Rufus Miller is an enigma. An outcast. A mystery man content to live and work in his Black Hills cabin with little or no contact with people. Where’d he come from? What’s his story? What’s a Dream House? Those answers are pure speculation...until marketing guru Rachel Grey shows up with plans to make Rufus’s art the next big thing.
Turning rustic artist Rufus Miller into a household name seems like a no-brainer—except for the fact the handsome recluse spurns the spotlight like…well, like a man with something to hide. Rachel isn’t sure what she’s gotten herself into but the chemistry between her and the Black Hills mountain man seems worth the gamble because the people of Sentinel Pass have overlooked one important fact completely: Rufus Miller is hot!

#6
Black Hills White Knight
2016
A white knight? Hardly. His suit is Armani—not armor.
A-list agent William Hughes leaves high drama to his Hollywood clients. There’s only room for one crusader in the family and that role falls to his saintly mother, a doctor who has devoted her life to the children of the world…seeming to forget she has a son of her own. But one tragic missed opportunity to help a friend still haunts him. So, when asked to fly Daria Fontina and her two daughters to a safe house in the Black Hills, William doesn’t hesitate. He trusts his highly reputed English reserve to shield him from the immediate attraction he feels toward Daria.
When push comes to physical abuse, Daria Fontina knows she has no choice but to leave her powerful politician husband. Fear for her children’s safety makes escaping to her grandfather’s home in the Black Hills her only option. Her rescuer might not be riding a white horse, but William Hughes seems prepared to take on whatever army her estranged husband sends after her. A woman could fall for a man like that—even a woman who has no intention of falling in love again. Ever.

#7
Black Hills Native Son
2016
His journey of discovery brings more than he ever hoped—a son, and the woman he was meant to love.
Eli Robideaux’s vision quest takes him down a road he never wanted to walk—to the past. His mistakes—even the ones he made for the right reasons—have come back to haunt him. He doesn’t understand why, but stumbling across Char Jones feels like grabbing on to a lifeline that might keep him from falling into the bone-deep despair that had been his father’s ruin.
No one is more surprised than Char when the unrequited love of her life walks into her Black Hills store, looking for the missing pieces of himself. She holds the key to one of those pieces—the son Eli never knew they had, the baby she put up for adoption. But is she brave enough to let go of her guilt and lead them on a journey that could hold love and hope…or almost certain heartbreak?

#8
Black Hills Rancher
2011
A stunt-woman? Cade Garrity’s new short-term tenant risks life and limb for a living? Oh, hell, no. The Black Hills rancher is a single dad with an impressionable young daughter who’s recently expressed an interest in bull riding. Cade married a woman who put her need for excitement ahead of her family and it killed her. He's not about to go down that road again. But when Jessie Bouchard drops out of the sky into his arms, he realizes he can’t let her go.
Despite what people think, Jessie doesn't have a death wish. She knows the only way to handle fear is to face it head on. She's convinced herself that living in the moment is enough—until she meets Cade and his daughter, Shiloh. But even if she did believe she deserved the kind of love Cade has to offer, the stalker who’s trying to kill her might make sure she never gets the chance.

#9
Black Hills Stranger
2012
His last resort.
Jonas Galloway's daughter is missing. He returned from active duty in Afghanistan to find his ex-wife had joined a cult and taken their seven-year-old with her. The group disappeared off the grid and Jonas has exhausted all leads. His only hope is to convince his old high school flame, Remy Bouchard, to use her “gift” to find Birdie. Remy may doubt her abilities, but Jonas never has. After all, she found him once and saved his life. He’s praying she can do the same for Birdie.
Her so-called gift.
Remy’s only back in Louisiana to close up her old family home and say goodbye to the past. She plans to reinvent herself in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and nothing Jonas, the ex-love-of-her-life, says is going to change that. Until he shows her a photo of his daughter. A little girl who looks like the child in her dream. A desperate soul on the verge of giving up. But if what Remy’s late mother said is true, then Remy could be the biggest mistake of Jonas’s life.

#10
Black Hills Legacy
2017
Nothing like an unconscious doppelgänger to ruin a perfectly good day at the Mystery Spot.Robyn Craine has two her Harley and the Mystery Spot, the Black Hills tourist attraction she bought with funds from her late mother’s estate. With a chance-of-a-lifetime expansion in the works, Robyn doesn’t have time to babysit the handsome Sentinel Passtime actor who shows up to do “research”—especially when she figures out Liam Temple’s connection to the wealthy businessman/politician trying to sabotage her new project.Liam Temple has no intention of falling for a Black Hills local.With a big budget movie in the works, Liam Temple’s star is on the rise. Even though Liam likes his current gig on the hit TV show Sentinel Passtime, he promised his late sister he’d win a Golden Globe by thirty-five. Falling for a feisty, Harley-riding tourist trap owner is not on his agenda—until Robyn Craine gets caught in Liam’s father’s crosshairs for buying a hunk of land Richard Marston thinks belongs to him. When Robyn’s doppelgänger stunt double is attacked, Liam recognizes his father’s MO, and keeping Robyn safe becomes his first priority.Black Hills Legacy wraps up the 10-book Black Hills Rendezvous series. If you’re a fan of connected stories with complex, three-dimensional characters facing compelling challenges, you won’t want to miss this contemporary series set in the Black Hills of South Dakota from Debra Salonen—past winner of Romantic Times Reviewer's Career Achievement "Series Storyteller of the Year" award.THE BLACK HILLS RENDEZVOUS BOOK #1: BLACK HILLS BABY - His sperm for a share in her gold mine? What could possibly go wrong?BOOK #2: BLACK HILLS BILLIONAIRE - What if his money isn’t enough to save his first—his only—love?BOOK #3: BLACK HILLS BAD BOY - Bad to the bone...in his dreams.BOOK #4: BLACK HILLS BACHELOR - A miner and a Hollywood princess? That sort of make-believe only happens in the movies.BOOK #5: BLACK HILLS NATIVE SON - A journey of discovery brings him the son he never knew, and the woman he was meant to love.BOOK #6: BLACK HILLS OUTCAST - Hiding out from life worked just fine…until he met Rachel.BOOK #7: BLACK HILLS WHITE KNIGHT - A white knight? Hardly. His suit is Armani—not armor.BOOK #8: BLACK HILLS RANCHER - Picking the right twin to be a role model for his daughter should be easy—not dangerous.BOOK #9: BLACK HILLS STRANGER - He’s no stranger to her. He’s her dream lover and worst nightmare combined.BOOK #10: BLACK HILLS LEGACY - Nothing like an unconscious doppelgänger to ruin a perfectly good day at the Mystery Spot.
Author

Debra Salonen
Author · 51 books
- Born and raised in Brookings, South Dakota. Youngest of five (much youngest). A Baby Boomer who married her high school sweetheart (our lockers were side-by-side). Mother of two, grandmother of three darling princesses, dog mother of 2.5 mutts.
- Graduate of South Dakota State University with a Master’s degree in Geography and History.
- Job history: taxi driver, flax seed counter, cartographer, rural mail carrier, substitute teacher, secretary/community liaison for Merced College’s Child Development Center, bookkeeper, journalist, author.
- First sale story: June, 1999, to Harlequin Superromance. Total number of books sold to Harlequin =27.
- Honors and awards: Romantic Times BOOKreviews, 2006 Series Storyteller of the Year. Winner: Best Superromance of 2010: Until He Met Rachel. Nominated for Desert Quill in 2008.
- First book published by Tule Press, summer 2014: Cowgirl Come Home. The Big Sky Mavericks series opens Aug. 2014 with: Nobody's Cowboy.