It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s bestselling author career. “I caught my day-care provider drugging my children with cough syrup and Tylenol to get them to sleep while I was away,” Brenda says. “It was then that I decided that I needed to do something from home.” However, writing was the last profession she expected to undertake. In fact, Brenda swears she didn’t have a creative bone in her body. In school, math and science were her best subjects, and when it came time to pick a major in college, she chose business. Abandoning her academic scholarship to Brigham Young University at the age of 20 in order to get married and start a family, Brenda dabbled in commercial real estate, then became a loan officer. “When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda admits. “I learned how to write by reading what others have written. The best advice for any would-be author: read, read, read….” Brenda sold her first book, and the rest is history. Now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she continues to publish two or three novels a year, in a variety of genres. Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are the proud parents of five children—three girls and two boys. Now that they are empty-nesters, she spends her free time babysitting her two grandchildren. When she’s not with her family or writing, Brenda is usually raising money for diabetes research. To date, she's raised almost $2.6 million. Her youngest son, Thad, has diabetes, and Brenda is determined to help him and others like him. She also enjoys traveling, watching sporting events and biking—she rides an amazing 20 miles every day! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-...
Series
Books
Before We Were Strangers
2018
A Dundee Christmas
2010
Finding Our Forever
2017
That Christmas Feeling
A Dundee Christmas / We Need a Little Christmas / Kiss Me, Santa
2010
Through the Smoke
2013
Blind Spot
2019
Summer on the Island
2022
The Secret Sister
2015
When Summer Comes
2013
In Close
2011
The Perfect Couple
2009
Sanctuary
2003
Face Off
2018
The Bookstore on the Beach
2021
In Seconds
2011
Keep Me Warm at Christmas
2021
Christmas in Silver Springs
2019
The Messy Life of Jane Tanner
2024
Snow Baby
2000
Home For the Holidays
2020
Until You Loved Me
2017
Every Waking Moment
2005
Dead Giveaway
2007
Taking the Heat
2003
Tying the Knot
2024
When Snow Falls
2012
Hanover House
2015
Of Noble Birth
1999
A California Christmas
2020
Right Where We Belong
2017
Sweet Seduction Boxed Set
2015
A Matter of Grave Concern
2014
Discovering You
2016
Dead Right
2007
Come Home to Me
2014
Body Heat
2010
Blood In, Blood Out
2018
When Lightning Strikes
2012
A Family of Her Own
2004
The Talk of Coyote Canyon
2023
Watch Me
2008
Expectations
2000
The Banned Books Club
2024
The Secrets She Kept
2016
Stop Me
2008
A Home of Her Own
2004
The Night Before Christmas
2009
Just Like the Ones We Used To Know
2017
When We Touch
2012
The Summer That Changed Everything
2025
Shooting The Moon
2002
Baby Business
2000
A Baby of Her Own
2002
The Heart of Christmas
2014
Tourist Season
2024
A Winter Wedding
2015
On a Snowy Christmas
2009
We Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
2001
To Win Her Heart
2004
No One But You
2017
Kerstspecial nr. 94
2010
Her Darkest Nightmare
2016
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Silver Bells / On a Snowy Christmas / The Perfect Holiday
2017
Cold Feet
2004
White Heat
2010
The Perfect Liar
2009
Talulah's Back in Town
2023
Coulda Been a Cowboy
2007
Trust Me
2008
Inside
2011
Unforgettable You
2019
The Perfect Murder
2009
Big Girls Don't Cry
2005
The Seaside Library
2023
Killer Heat
2010
A Husband of Her Own
2003
When I Found You
2021
Home to Whiskey Creek
2013
Hello Again
2017
I'll Be Home for Christmas
2023
Dead Silence
2006
Dear Maggie
2001
Of Noble Birth & Honor Bound
2012
One Perfect Summer
2020
This Heart of Mine
2015
First Love, Second Chance & Temperatures Rising
2020
Stranger in Town
2005
Honor Bound
2011
Take Me Home for Christmas
2013
The Other Woman
2006
