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ⓘ About Rachael Johns
Rachael Johns is a fiction writer and an English teacher. She is a best selling author and the ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls as well as a number of other romance and women’s fiction novels that include The Other Bridget, Talk to the Heart, and more. She has won the Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice. When she is not writing, you can find her reading, sewing, hanging with her Sheepadoodle or listening to audiobooks while she is driving around or busy cleaning up after her three teenage boys. The only television show that she watches is Farmer Wants a Wife. Every year she says that she is going to read more nonfiction but fails at it simply because there are too many good novels out there waiting to be read. Rachael resides in the Swan Valley of Western Australia.
All Book Series by Rachael Johns
The Single Dad's Family Recipe
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2018
Make You Burn
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2015 Anthology · Jackie Ashenden
Strip You Bare
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2016 Anthology · Maisey Yates
Beauty's Kiss / The Tycoon's Kiss
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 2014 Anthology · Jane Porter
Love Me Tender
Book 5 of 12 · published 2014 Anthology · Sarah Mayberry,Jane Porter,Trish Morey,Kelly Hunter
The Cowboy's Reluctant Bride
Book 6 of 12 · published 2014 Anthology · Katherine Garbera
Love Me True
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2022 Anthology · Katherine Garbera,Kathleen O'Brien,Megan Crane,Joanne Walsh
Brooke
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2016 Anthology · Eden Summers
Please Me, Cowboy
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2014 Anthology · Megan Crane
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Rachael Johns?
Rachael Johns is a fiction writer and an English teacher. She is a best selling author and the ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls as well as a number of other romance and women’s fiction novels that include The Other Bridget, Talk to the Heart, and more. She has won the Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice.
Which Rachael Johns series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Bunyip Bay series, the earliest of Rachael Johns's multi-book series: it opens with Outback Dreams (2013) and runs to 5 books across 2013–2021, ending with Outback Secrets (2021). Rachael Johns's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Rachael Johns written?
Rachael Johns has 52 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2025. 37 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Bunyip Bay series with 5 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Rachael Johns's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rachael Johns's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Hope Junction (2012–2015, 2 books), Bunyip Bay (2013–2021, 5 books) and The Davis Sisters (2014–2015, 2 books), plus 5 more.
How are Rachael Johns's books organised into series?
This guide splits Rachael Johns's 52 books into 9 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Bunyip Bay (5 books, 2013–2021); Secret Confessions: Down & Dusty (5 books, 2016); The McKinnels of Jewell Rock (3 books, 2016–2018); Rose Hill (3 books, 2017–2023); Deacons of Bourbon Street (3 books, 2015–2016), plus 4 further series.