Romance Series Lists discussion

Everywhere I look seems to say something different about how Jessica Bird's backlist ties together, and Jessica's website doesn't have anything about series order at all. From the research I've done so far, it seems to me that certain groupings of her books tie together, but a friend made a comment on a review of one of Jessica's books about reading the entire backlist in order. Soooo, now I'm even more confused than before. I have all of her books that were written for Silhouette, but I don't have any of the first four yet. I'm hoping someone here who has read them can help me figure out which ones actually do tie together. Here is the info I have so far:

SSE - The Moorehouse Legacy
1. Beauty and the Black Sheep
2. His Comfort and Joy
3. From the First
FictionDB also lists A Man in a Million as part of this series, but it isn't marked as such on the book, like the others are. I had been thinking it was a stand-alone.

SSE - The O'Banyon Brothers
1. The Billionaire Next Door
Plus two more as yet unpublished books.

The first four books is where things get really confusing for me. I know that there is definitely a connection between An Unforgettable Lady and An Irresistible Bachelor (in that order), but FictionDB also has Heart of Gold grouped with these two as the first in a trilogy called The Walker Papers. I had previously thought that Leaping Hearts and Heart of Gold had some connection though.

I was really looking forward to starting on her backlist when I finish the last BDB book, but now I don't know where to begin. If anyone can help me sort out this mystery, I'd be most appreciative.

I don't know about the last ones you talked about, but I do know the Sil SE books. They are some of my favs.

You're order on those is correct. It starts with the Moorehouse Legacy (which focuses on the 3 Moorehouse siblings). Then comes "A Man In A Million" which is a spin-off of Moorehouse Legacy...it features Spike who is a secondary character in the Moorehouse Legacy. Then after that comes the O'Banyon Brothers...who are another spin-off of the Moorehouses, sort of. The first book features Sean, who is another secondary character in Moorehouse. Then the next 2 books will have his 2 brothers.

So that's how all those tie-in. Don't have a clue on the others.

Hi Julie
If you go to fastfiction.com you'll get the order/grouping you're looking for. You just type in the name of the author and everything the peson has written comes up in groups and in order. It's a great site and it's free.

Isis,
Thanks for the info on the SSE books.

East,
Did you mean FantasticFiction? I already checked there and the groupings aren't entirely accurate. Actually it turns out FictionDB got it a little closer, but still not entirely correct.

As it turns out, the friend who had posted that all of Jessica Bird's contemporary novels should be read in order wasn't joking. Apparently, they all do tie together in some way, and a couple of them even have ties to BDB. She explained all the connections to me, so I'm going to post it in the Multiple Genre folder.