Background
Jill Marie Landis was born on November 8, 1948 in Clinton, Indiana, United States. She is the daughter of Bill J. Davis and Margaret Davis. Her family moved to California when she was ten years old.
2006
Kristin Hannah (center) with Jill Marie Landis (right) and Andrea Cirillo, a literary agent (left).
2015
Marionette Taboniar and Jill Marie Landis.
401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA 90802, United States
Jill Marie Landis gained in Long Beach her Bachelor of Arts in history and an Elementary Teaching Credential from California State University.
Jill Landis with her husband
(Analisa, a strong, independent woman with a tragic backgr...)
Analisa, a strong, independent woman with a tragic background, stumbles upon a half-dead stranger on her doorstep. Caleb was a man whose heritage challenged every feeling in her heart. And yet, their love was as inevitable as the sunrise - as powerful as the prairie winds.
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1988
(Dani Whittaker, a young woman forced to live her life mas...)
Dani Whittaker, a young woman forced to live her life masquerading as a boy, suddenly finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime, one that will take her from the ragged peaks of the Grand Tetons to a lush Caribbean island. Troy Fontaine, grandson of a pirate, experienced Creole lover, woodsman, hunter, gambler and entrepreneur, cannot face the future until a dark mystery in his past has been solved. Though he denies it, he’s not the kind of man who can ignore Dani’s plight either - and certainly not after he ignites her passion and takes her virginity. Though they try to fight their desire for one another for the sake of independence, these two star crossed lovers discover that love is a force that always conquers all.
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1988
(The sultry, dark-eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a...)
The sultry, dark-eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a small Italian village and journey to America, to join her husband on the wild frontier. But a tragic twist of fate left her alone in Busted Heel, Wyoming, with little more than a pocketful of dreams and a memory of love... From the moment he saw lovely Rosa, the hardened town marshal felt his heart fill with desire. But the darkly handsome man hid a shadowed past behind his ice-blues eyes. A past that could threaten their fiery love...
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1990
(Can a mysterious beauty win the heart of the most eligibl...)
Can a mysterious beauty win the heart of the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco in this tender western romance? Jade Douglas is a determined young woman who risks it all to travel to San Francisco in the late 1800’s to learn the truth about her father’s mysterious death. J.T. Harrington is a handsome, rugged rancher who has just inherited a vast estate. When he finds the radiant beauty on his doorstep, he is tempted to ignore his vow never to love again and offer Jade both his name and his heart. Before their scandalous wedding can unveil the secrets of the past, J.T. and Jade find themselves torn apart by a dangerous deception, but brought together again by a desire too powerful for either one of them to deny...
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1991
(Can two yearning hearts learn to beat as one? Dake Reed i...)
Can two yearning hearts learn to beat as one? Dake Reed is a jaded soldier traveling home from the Civil War when he stumbles across an ambushed wagon - and a helpless newborn in need of a mother. The last thing Cara James expects to see is a lean and handsome stranger riding across the lonely prairie with a baby in his arms. She’s nothing but a backwoods girl with sky-blue eyes living on a Kansas homestead, making rag dolls... and dreaming of a better life. Desperate to find someone to share his burden, Dake uses his sweet-as-molasses drawl to coax Cara into leaving everything behind and joining him on his journey. As Dake and Cara travel to a place they both hope to call home, Cara dares to dream it’s not just the child who needs her tender touch... but the man.
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1994
(Love's tender kiss turns a harsh frontier winter into spr...)
Love's tender kiss turns a harsh frontier winter into spring when Bostonian Annika Storm heads West to seek adventure - only to be mistaken for a mail-order bride and abducted by rugged Buck Scott. And by the time Scott realizes he has the wrong woman, the two are stranded in his remote cabin by a violent snowstorm.
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1994
(Refusing to wear black again after mourning her late husb...)
Refusing to wear black again after mourning her late husband for one year, widow Rachel McKenna hopes to start her life over and scandalizes the whole town when she takes up with legendary gunfighter Lane Cassidy.
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1995
(On the streets of New Orleans, a veiled woman approached ...)
On the streets of New Orleans, a veiled woman approached Celine Winters and asked her to switch places. For Celine, it meant a chance to escape, a daydream come true. By simply exchanging cloaks, Celine and the mystery woman would exchange their lives - and fates. Celine would marry a man she had never met, live in a land she'd never seen, and find a destiny far greater than any daydream.
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1996
(Jemma is betrothed to a rich and handsome man. The kind o...)
Jemma is betrothed to a rich and handsome man. The kind of man every father likes. She has everything a girl could ever want - except the right to choose her own true love. So one night she runs away and disappears into the sultry darkness of New Orleans - and meets the kind of man every father fears.
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1997
(Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness... W...)
Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness... Widowed Elizabeth Bennett believes her troubles are over. Her loveless marriage is at an end. The death of her husband leaves her free to raise their daughter, Hadley, alone on her beautiful Hawaiian ranch... until the handsome Spence Laamea, her husband's heir and illegitimate son from a liaison with a native woman, arrives. Spence takes the estate - and Elizabeth's fate - under his control. Despite her distrust and against a backdrop of disapproval among the island's strict nineteenth-century white society, passions erupt between them. Elizabeth and Spence struggle to build a life for themselves and her daughter. When a deadly hurricane bears down on the island, it tests the bonds of love and loyalty they've tried to deny.
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1998
(On the run from a terrifying past, seventeen-year-old Oli...)
On the run from a terrifying past, seventeen-year-old Olivia Bond finds herself lost alone in an Illinois swamp, until a lonely recluse comes to her aid, but as the two wounded souls begin to fall in love, Olivia's dark secrets threaten to destroy them both.
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1999
(Can an English lady raised as a “wild orchid” ever be tru...)
Can an English lady raised as a “wild orchid” ever be truly tamed? When Trevor Mandeville leaves behind the drawing rooms of London and journeys to an island paradise in search of a rare orchid, he comes face-to-face with an even more shocking treasure. Stolen from her family at a young age, Joya Penn has spent most of her life running wild and free. Trevor tries to resist her charms, but soon finds himself captivated by the deliciously innocent - yet wildly seductive - young creature with eyes as blue as a mountain lake and blonde hair rippling down her back in an untamed mane. Given her first taste of desire by the handsome adventurer, Joya believes all her dreams have come true when Trevor agrees to escort her back to London. But her uninhibited ways quickly throw his entire household - and his heart - into delightful chaos. As Joya despairs of ever being the sort of “proper lady” Trevor could love, Trevor begins to wonder if he’s finally found the treasure he has been hunting for his entire life... in the forbidden paradise of Joya’s arms.
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2000
(A year after the Civil War’s end, battle-scarred surgeon ...)
A year after the Civil War’s end, battle-scarred surgeon Dru Talbot - presumed long dead by all who loved him - returns home. Through everything he’d clung to the dream of starting life over with the bride he’d married on the very eve he left for war. Yet the truth that awaits him in Magnolia Creek is nothing like his fairy tale. Young widow Sara Collier had risen above her grief for Dru, refusing to mourn her life away. But she’d put her faith and trust in the wrong man and made one wrong choice that changed her future forever. Sara returns to Magnolia Creek an outcast, a fallen woman, the mother of a child born out of wedlock. Soon she must face the man she’d loved so desperately when she was young, innocent, and the world was hers. Can he forgive her? Can he truly still love her? Or her child?
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2002
(For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for...)
For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death - and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now. Private investigator, Jake Montgomery, has been looking for "Caroline Graham" since the day she disappeared with his best friend's baby. All Jake wants is answers. He finally finds her living under her assumed name. She's a beautiful, devoted single mother; she captures his heart immediately. Carly cautiously allows Jake into her life, beginning to trust another person for the first time in years. She never imagines that Jake is caught between his mission and his growing passion. The man she has fallen in love with poses a threat to her protected world.
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2003
(Return to Twilight Cove for a tender and suspenseful stor...)
Return to Twilight Cove for a tender and suspenseful story of families lost and found, of unexpected love, and second chances. Betrayed and broke, but not broken… Tracy Potter lived a perfect life, created a loving home for her family, but her husband’s sudden death reveals her perfect life has been a lie - from the marriage vows to their wealth. Determined to remake her life on her own terms, Tracy focuses on resurrecting the Heartbreak Hotel - a long-abandoned turn-of-the-century inn overlooking the Pacific Ocean. But her vow to trust only herself is tested the night mysterious loner Wade MacAllister checks in. The little known Heartbreak Hotel is the perfect place for Wade to disappear from the world for a while, from his notoriety as an author, and from the shocking events of his past. But Tracy’s struggle and determination all too quickly fire his desire and capture his imagination and emotions. What he feels for her is dragging his long dead writer’s muse out of hiding and forcing him to risk the anonymity on which his survival depends. Will Wade’s dark past destroy their chance to find love again?
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2005
(Tell me who I am. Tell me where I belong. I am a woman wi...)
Tell me who I am. Tell me where I belong. I am a woman without a name, without a home... For the first time, Eyes-of-the-Sky prayed to the white man's God. One look in the mirror told her she was not a Comanche...yet she remembered no other life. She watched the whites who had taken her in after her "rescue", the mother, Hattie, and her handsome son, Joe, and wondered what her life had been like before her childhood abduction. She looked at Joe, who had suffered much and forgave little, and knew longing in her heart. But questions remained: What am I? Who am I?
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2008
(Not five minutes in a one-horse Texas town, and Hank Lars...)
Not five minutes in a one-horse Texas town, and Hank Larson foils a bank robbery. No matter that one of the bandits tripped right over Hank's dusty boots. Suddenly, the newcomer is hailed a hero and anointed sheriff. Hank came to Glory to report crime in the newspaper - not stop it himself. But everyone thinks the Lord led him there to save the day. Everyone except the town's beautiful healer, Amelia Hawthorne. The robber who got away was her nineteen-year-old brother. And it's Hank's job to bring the guy in. Hank knows all about losing family. And he slowly sets about restoring Amelia's shaky faith. But doing what's right might mean breaking her heart...and his own.
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2009
(In the first book of the Irish Angels series, we meet Lau...)
In the first book of the Irish Angels series, we meet Laura Foster, a woman with the darkest of pasts, and Reverend Brand McCormick, a man with everything to lose by loving her. Having escaped a life she never chose, Laura Foster is finally living her dream. But even after four years of posing as a respectable widow in Glory, Texas, she is always afraid someone from her past might reveal her true identity. Believing no man could love her if he knew the truth, Laura tries to resist Brand’s courtship. His reputation would be shattered if Laura’s former life is discovered. But it’s not only Laura’s past that threatens to bring him down - it’s also his own. As they open their hearts to love and faith, will Laura and Brand find the depth and power of forgiveness from their community?
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2010
(Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was ta...)
Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn't know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin 'brothers' have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie has come to love the swamp. She has learned to fish and trap and sell pelts at the local mercantile.Maddie longs to change her life but knows that her brothers will never give up their lawless ways. When they kidnap the daughter of a wealthy carpetbagger, the twins force Maddie to hide the precocious eight-year-old while they return to New Orleans to wait for notice of a reward. Pinkerton agent Tom Abbott is assigned to the kidnapping case in which Maddie has become an accomplice. In a journey that takes them to Baton Rouge, a mutual attraction becomes evident, but Tom and Maddie cannot trust each other. Will Maddie ever discover who she is? Will her real family ever find her? Will Maddie and Tom listen to their hearts? Or will they choose honor over love?
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2011
(Six months ago, if anyone would have told Em Johnson she'...)
Six months ago, if anyone would have told Em Johnson she'd end up divorced, broke, and running the dilapidated Tiki Goddess Bar on the magical North Shore of Kauai she would have told them to shove a swizzle stick up their okole. As if all that isn't bad enough, when an obnoxious neighbor with a grudge is found dead in the Goddess luau pit, suspicion falls on Em and the rest of the Goddess staff. With the help of a quirky dance troupe of over-the-hill Hula Maidens, Em and the cast of characters must ban together to find the killer and solve the mystery before the next pupu party.
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2011
(Kate Keene's childhood memories compel her to take her ne...)
Kate Keene's childhood memories compel her to take her newly-acquired architectural skills to a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. But when she returns to the Reconstruction-era South, she's shocked to discover the man she's dreamed of for so long has become a bitter, angry recluse. Colin Delany, the handsome older brother of her best friend, has lost all he once held dear, with no hope of ever restoring the Belle Fleuve mansion and plantation. Filled with spunk and determination, Kate feels it's her duty to help, so when Colin demands she roll up her drawings and get out, she refuses. And when Colin forces Kate to promise his dying sister they will care for his niece and nephew, she complies. Having been orphaned herself, Kate realizes she must put the children's welfare above her own, even if it means a marriage of convenience. But will Colin's hovering darkness ever lift? And can Kate's persistent love and faith transform their uncertain future?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MQVHIQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4
2012
(Forget the grass skirts. Some of the Island's top hula da...)
Forget the grass skirts. Some of the Island's top hula dancers are pushing up daisies. Everyone at Em Johnson’s famous North Shore Kauai hang-out, The Tiki Goddess Bar, knows that the bar’s irrepressible Hula Maidens take their hula dancing seriously. So when famed hula instructors from a rival dance troop start dropping like over-ripe passion fruit, Em and the Hula Maidens go undercover at the Kukui Nut Festival Hula Competition to uncover the killer. Em is once again up to her okole in danger and mystery, not to mention the seductive challenge of working with hunky detective Roland Sharpe, who moonlights as one of the island’s sexiest fire dancers. The hula is lively, the luau is smoking, the mai tais are delicious, and a killer is looking to get away with murder in paradise.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RQV6NK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i11
2012
(A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now ...)
A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous. Suspects lurk behind every paper drink umbrella. It’s not enough that Chef Kimo is the number one suspect or that the life’s-a-party Hula Maidens nearly burn down the place while dancing the hula with flaming coconuts. Em still has to deal with her Uncle Louie’s wedding to The Black Widow - until his fianceé’s Mercedes plunges into the Pacific. Roland Sharpe, a handsome, Hawaiian, fire-dancing detective, warns the locals not to interfere, but Em and the madcap Maidens can’t help themselves and soon wind up knee deep in danger again. Can the irrepressible troupe solve three murders before the champagne goes flat?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D6RNSGC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p2_i0
2013
(Be My Valentine is a duet of western historical romances ...)
Be My Valentine is a duet of western historical romances set in the late 1800's that are both sweet and spicy as a box of Valentine treats. With memorable characters and emotion that tugs at the heartstrings, "Faithful and True" and "Picture Perfect" are the kind of stories that Jill Marie Landis is known for.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCCKRLK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p4_i0
2013
(Book 4 of The Tiki Goddess Mystery Series. The drinks are...)
Book 4 of The Tiki Goddess Mystery Series. The drinks are hot, but Em's alibi is ice cold. A marauding monkey, a mysterious murder, middle-aged hula maidens, and mugs full of Mai Tai's. Just another day in Tiki Goddess Paradise... Crime-solving sleuth Em Johnson and her Uncle Louie, owner of the famous Tiki Goddess Bar on Kauai, head for the Cocktail Shake Off Competition in Honolulu. What is supposed to be a fun trip to a mixologist contest turns weird when Louie's legendary "Booze Bible" is stolen, and Em's ex-husband winds up dead - with Em the number-one suspect. Sexy Kauai detective and part-time fire dancer Roland Sharpe rushes to Em's side along with the unpredictable Hula Maidens, whose detective skills are even more haphazard than their dance routine at the island tiki bars. Toss in an escaped monkey and a killer who wants to make this the Last Call for someone's honky-tonk tiki-tossing night out, and it's going to be another wild escapade for Em and her Hula Maidens.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KO71COM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p3_i0
2014
Jill Marie Landis was born on November 8, 1948 in Clinton, Indiana, United States. She is the daughter of Bill J. Davis and Margaret Davis. Her family moved to California when she was ten years old.
Jill Marie Landis gained her Bachelor of Arts in history and an Elementary Teaching Credential from California State University in Long Beach. During her student years, Jill held summer jobs working as a ride operator for Fantasyland at Disneyland. In addition, she sold shave ice and cleaned condos and vacation rentals in Hawaii.
Upon graduation, Jill Marie Landis taught kindergarten and English as Second Language in Southern California for thirteen years. In 1983 she turned her vision into writing. Her writing career began in 1988 with the publication of Sunflower - her first book.
Landis has written seventeen steamy historical romances. Besides, she is in the process of publishing in e-book formats, a trilogy of contemporary single title romances entitled the Twilight Cove Series, and five inspirational historical romances. Most recently she has been penning a series of comedic mysteries set on Kauai.
No matter what kind of novel she is writing, she focuses on creating memorable characters, adding the emotion her readers have come to expect, spinning page-turning plots and adding the requisite happy endings.
Today Landis is living in Hawaii on an outer island where she continues to write.
(Can a mysterious beauty win the heart of the most eligibl...)
1991(On the run from a terrifying past, seventeen-year-old Oli...)
1999(Can an English lady raised as a “wild orchid” ever be tru...)
2000(Six months ago, if anyone would have told Em Johnson she'...)
2011(Dani Whittaker, a young woman forced to live her life mas...)
1988(Refusing to wear black again after mourning her late husb...)
1995(A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now ...)
2013(Love's tender kiss turns a harsh frontier winter into spr...)
1994(Can two yearning hearts learn to beat as one? Dake Reed i...)
1994(In the first book of the Irish Angels series, we meet Lau...)
2010(The sultry, dark-eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a...)
1990(Be My Valentine is a duet of western historical romances ...)
2013(Return to Twilight Cove for a tender and suspenseful stor...)
2005(Kate Keene's childhood memories compel her to take her ne...)
2012(A year after the Civil War’s end, battle-scarred surgeon ...)
2002(Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was ta...)
2011(Analisa, a strong, independent woman with a tragic backgr...)
1988(On the streets of New Orleans, a veiled woman approached ...)
1996(For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for...)
2003(Not five minutes in a one-horse Texas town, and Hank Lars...)
2009(Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness... W...)
1998(Jemma is betrothed to a rich and handsome man. The kind o...)
1997(Book 4 of The Tiki Goddess Mystery Series. The drinks are...)
2014(Forget the grass skirts. Some of the Island's top hula da...)
2012(Tell me who I am. Tell me where I belong. I am a woman wi...)
2008Jill Marie Landis has been a member of Romance Writers of America, Novelists Inc., and Authors Guild.
Jill Marie married Stephen Landis on May 15, 1971. Her husband coached high school football and taught English in Long Beach, California. The couple doesn't have children.