2022 Men Made In America Challenge


During the early 2000s late 90s Harlequin Published a series called the Men Made In America, with each author writing a romance from a different state.   I personally have on my shelves Connecticut and Delaware.  When I decided to collect them again, I used Fiction DB to find all the books I needed.

I made a concentrated effort to collect all of these books in 2018 with the plan of reading them in 2019, but that was too much considering all the other challenges I had going on.  I instead choose to put it off to 2020 but then the panorama happened and reading went right out the window. Now that I'm back to reading I have decided I want to try to knock down at least five.  

Here I'm going to list all the books in the challenge and keep track of how I do. Since I have already read a few of the books it's not all 50 states. I'm aiming for 5 books read this year. There isn't any rush as these are all backlist books.

Books To Be Read: 48
Goal: 5
Read In 2022:
Balance Forward:

Let's start with: * books are in order of series, not alphabetical by state*

 Alabama Full House by Jackie Weger
Alaska Borrowed Dreams by Debbie Macomber

Arizona Call It Destiny by Jayne Ann Krentz

Arkansas Another Kind OF Love by Mary Lynn Baxter

California Deceptions by Annette Broadrick

Already own Number 7, Connecticut  & 8 Delaware

Florida Dream Come True Ann Major
Louisiana Bayou Midnight by Emilie Richards


Mississippi After The Storm by Rebecca Flanders

North Dakota A Class Act by Kathleen Eagle

Rhode Island The Bargain by Patricia Coughlin

South Dakota For Old Times' Sake by Kathleen Eagle

Texas For the Love of Mike by Candace Schuler

Vermont Finders Keepers Carla Neggers

Virginia The Devlin Dare by Cathy Gillen Thacker

West Virginis All In The Family by Heather Graham Pozzessere

Colorado  Stormwalker Dalla Schulze 

Georgia Way of The Willow Linda Shaw

Hawaii Tangles Lies Anne Stuart

Idaho Rogue's Valley Kathleen Creighton

Illinois Love by Proxy Diana Palmer

Indiana Possibles Lass Small

Iowa Kiss Yesterday Goodbye Leigh Michaels

Kansas A Time To Keep Curtiss Ann Matlock 

Kentucky One Pale, Fawn Glove Linda Shaw

Maine Rocky Road Anne Stuart

Maryland The Love Thing Dixie Browning

Massachusetts Pros & Cons Bethany Campbell

Michigan To Tame A Wolf Anne McAllister

Minnesota Winter Lady Janet Joyce

Mississippi After The Storm Rebecca Flanders

Missouri Choices Annette Broadrick

Montana Part of the Bargain Linda Lael Miller

Nebraska Secrets of Tyrone Regan Forest 

Nevada Nobody's Baby Barbara Bretton

New Hampshire Natural Attraction Marisa Carroll

New Jersey Moments Harsh, Moments Gentle Joan Hohl

New Mexico Within Reach Marilyn Pappano

New York In Good Faith Judith Williams

North Carolina The Security Man Dixie Browning 

Ohio Too Near the Fire Lindsay McKenna

Oklahoma A Time and a Season Curtiss Ann Matlock

Oregon Uneasy Alliance Jayne Ann Krentz

Pennsylvania The Wrong Man Ann Major

South Carolina The Last Frontier Rebecca Flanders

Tennessee To Love a Dreamer Ruth Langan

Utah To Tame The Hunter Stephanie James

Washington The Waiting Game Jayne Ann Krentz

Wisconsin Starstruck Anne McAllister 

And those are the books my loves, hopefully, none of these women have outed themselves as NWL (nice white ladies = racists) or are part of the Cult of the stupids (Trump supporters) recently as we all know RWA has imploded as of 2019.

Join me if these books are on your shelves as well,
Happy Reading and Good Luck 

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