Emma Lee Jayne Books In Order
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Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Heart of a Wounded Hero Books
Sacrifice | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hero's Lane | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blind to the Truth | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soldier's Symphony | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear Huxley | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scars and Stripes | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Never Broken | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All My Broken Pieces | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
State of Faith | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Scars We Cannot See | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sealed With a Broken Kiss | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Love and Country | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love, Honor, Sacrifice | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Redemption | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soldier On | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fixer Upper | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Mask | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Protective Hero | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Home For the Brave | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Than Expected | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Accidental Hero | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Liberty Dwells | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Next To You | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home of the Free | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lifeline | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Finding Home | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Hero's Vow | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Make Love Not War | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mister Marine | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peace of My Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Trenches | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Close Protector | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Soldier's Last Wish | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Kind Hero | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Damaged Goods | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Time to Heal | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Pieces | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tattered & Torn | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Commanding Her Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Warrior's Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Commanding Her Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unscathed | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sworn to Secrecy | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hope for Me | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tapped Out | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Protect My Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trenches of my Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Test of Fayth | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broken Perfection | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All of You | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Watch Over Me: | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Falling Into You | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Healing Her Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nothing Left To Lose | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Still a Warrior | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saving Ethan | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Too Far Gone | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Shot with the Soldier | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mended With Gold | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scarred Beginnings | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Healing A Hero | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dawn of a New Day | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Back to the Block | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bound by Honor | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sign for the Seal | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Rental Rendezvous Books
Vacationing with the Enemy | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crashing with Cupid | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Casita Casanova | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Resort | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lakehouse Liaison | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach House Beauty | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seaside Seduction | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rental Romp | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Friendsgiving Getaway | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rental Claus | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of SEAL Team Romeo Books
Easy Surrender | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under Pressure | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Signed, Sealed, Delivered | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Covert Curves | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossing Enemy Lines | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broken SEAL | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Too Deep | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
SEALed With A Kiss | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Night with a Seal | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Anchored | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Claim Curves | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blown Away | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shot to the Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Defending My Heart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation: Wife Her Up | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
SEALing the Deal | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Work For It Books
Street Smart | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart Smart | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book Smart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smart Mouth | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Play Smart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Look Smart | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smart Move | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Educated Romance Universe Books
Street Smart | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart Smart | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under Pressure | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not Fooling Anyone | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book Smart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smart Mouth | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Play Smart | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Can't Fight It | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vinyl Frontier | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Look Smart | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smart Move | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Made up from books by other authors as part of the Pennyverse. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Emma Lee Jayne is an American author of romance novels. She writes fast-paced stories with many swoon heroes, snarky heroines, and detailed world-building. Jayne lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and their two children, where they keep chickens, dogs, cats, and Legos.
Heart Smart
This is the first book in Work for it, a series Emma Lee Jayne contributed. We meet Holly, who has been assigned a task to get the very ill-tempered but genius professor to tidy up for an award he’s been shortlisted for. But Molly has her work cut out since the professor is not interested in talking to people or tidying up. He prefers staying in his lab and working with the few students who can tolerate running around him. This story is quite exciting, and you’ll love how the heroine comes out as being lovable.
The professor (Max) is a vagrant, and Molly tries out her best to get him sorted. But the thing professor does notice is that the woman tidying him up is very charming, and that annoys him. Sparks fly when Molly steals something from his lab to get his attention.
Jayne does a fantastic job of bringing two unlikely characters together, making way for some of the best romances you’ve ever read. This novel is equal parts hate-to-love romance, workplace romance, and opposite-attract romance.
The story feels much a lot like the reverse of My Fair Lady, a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film. How do you take an ill-tempered but brilliant researcher/professor and turn him into to be a man worthy of a prestigious award? Well, bring in an expert in the communication field, an associate at the university where the professor works. When the two meet, it’s fireworks instantly, both as the professor resists any advances but the focused communication expert. The two soon realize that they feel a spark of attraction between them. This sparks a battle of wits that lasts for much of the story and creates sparks that will keep you hooked deeply into Max and Holly’s journey.
Here are some of the reasons that will make you love Emma Lee Jayne’s story:
When a difficult-to-deal-with hero begins to show his humane side, that sparks the reader’s emotion, and that’s the case with Max in this story. However, it takes much of the story for Max’s kindness to be revealed, but as soon as it happens, it’ll make you feel at ease for Jayne’s characters. But even with his humane side revealed, Max retains his solid outer walls but soon finds out it’s more of a “make-up” rather than his inability to be nice.
What the author lays out in her story, the challenges of a non-tenured professor, being part are all true, and any reader will easily relate to these challenges. The frequent push and pull of the hero and heroine play a perfect foreplay role for their later coupling. This is a slow-burn romance and fits perfectly for Max and Holly’s tale.
At Max’s expense, there are some light moments of laughter, which helps allow for some moments of relief from the detailed Max characterization. The author provides a nice balance between strife and resolution as the narrative progresses.
One of this book’s central themes is the achievement gap and food insufficiency for the students. The author does not preach it but vividly illustrates it through Holly’s experiences at the university. What Emma Jayne showcases in this slow-burn romance is true to the theme and offers a personal resolution to the problems.
But Holly’s heart is the best part of Heart Smart, hence the novel’s title. Through her compassion for people and animals that society often considers broken, the reader is reminded that we all are part of ecology created in perfect balance. As Holly loves her ill-tempered Max and her pets, we can visualize the power of “seeing” people beyond their physical appearances. And that’s a compelling message, especially in a world focused on the outer impression.
Smart Mouth
Tom found himself as a teenage pop star at the age of 15. He feels that his induction into the Boys of Summer band contributed to the breakup of his family and the bad relations with his twin brother, James. On the other hand, Gwendolyn was James’s best friend in high school. When Gwen and Tom first meet, they are both infatuated, but James isn’t willing to share.
In a series of unfortunate events, Tom and Gwen reconnect, and Tom won’t risk the chance of having her in his life again. Tom is a cautious celebrity who understands that his fame has both advantages and disadvantages. He has found a much more comfortable position behind the scenes as the manager of a recording studio. We first meet Gwen Heart Smart- in the story of Max and Holly, where she worked as Max’s assistant. She is an intelligent woman, but unfortunately, social gathering often leaves her perplexed. As she awaits to defend her Ph.D. dissertation, she firmly believes it would be wise to try dating. However, she never expected Tom to be in love with her. Overall she is complicated but also an interesting character.
You will enjoy everything about Smart Mouth as the story addresses anxiety’s debilitating nature, focusing on women’s achievement in the world. But these themes never walk hand in hand in the story; instead, they are characterized by the two characters, Tom and Gwen.
Due to Tom’s anxiety and Gwen’s uncertainty in relationships, Gwen and Tom’s path is riddled with problems. As these two reconnect and Tom promises to assist Gwen in her dilemma of meeting men, a realm of misunderstanding and uncertainty ensues. What is evident, however, is their chemistry. Jayne choreographs this dance between the two, one desiring more while believing the other cannot desire the same. It is brilliantly orchestrated to capture Jayne’s readers’ interest. It is explosive when they finally connect sexually due to years of suppressed emotions. If you enjoy reading romance novels with swoon characters, then Emma Lee Jayne books are a perfect match for you.
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