Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, March 10, 1952 – October 27, 2019)[1] was an American writer of historical romance novels.
[2] Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born.
The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children; Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother.
Richard Sandomir of The New York Times explained,Lindsey set her passionate tales in many locales, including the Caribbean; the Barbary Coast; England as early as the year 873; Norway, when the Vikings ruled; 19th-century Texas, Wyoming and Montana; and the planet Kystran, in a series of science-fiction bodice-rippers.
[4]Medieval Vikings Arabian Dunes Caribbean Deep space/ Ly-san-ter Family Saga Time Travel The covers of Lindsey's novels have been parodied,[7][by whom?]
fitting in as they do with a trend in romance publishing to use gaudy painted designs that feature a muscular male model with his chest exposed, towering above or otherwise dominating floridly dressed women.