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Romance, Historical Fiction

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Janet Dean grew up in a family who cherished the past and had a strong creative streak. Her father recounted fascinating stories, like his father before him. The tales they told instilled in Janet a love of history and the desire to write.

She married her college sweetheart and taught first grade before leaving to rear two daughters, but Janet never lost interest in American history and the accounts of strong men and women of faith who built this country.

With her daughters grown, she eagerly turned to Inspirational historical romance. Today Janet enjoys spinning stories for Love Inspired Historical.

When she isn’t writing, Janet stamps greeting cards, plays golf and is never without a book to read. The Deans love to travel and spend time w ...more

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	The Substitute Bride 3.83 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courting the Doctor's Daughter (Courting, Book 2) 4.17 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wanted: A Family 4.16 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Inconvenient Match 3.84 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courting Miss Adelaide (Noblesville, Indiana, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bride Wore Spurs 3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bounty Hunter's Redemption 4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Daddy for Christmas: a novella 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wanted: A Family & A Place of Refuge by Janet Dean (Goodreads Author), Janet Lee Barton (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Substitute Bride & The Gladiator: A 2-in-1 Collection by Janet Dean (Goodreads Author), Carla Capshaw (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Home for Christmas at 99 cents on Amazon

Only 16 hours to buy the hisitorical novella collection Home for Christmas for 99 cents on Amazon! An amazing deal for four Christmas stories written by myself and wonderful authors Ruth Logan Herne, Pam Hillman and Julie Lessman! Check out the reviews on Amazon.

“A Daddy for Christmas” by Janet Dean

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“What you want is a guarantees. There's no guarantees with love. No guarantees for anything worth having. Like my boys out there." (Mary)”
― Janet Dean, Courting Miss Adelaide

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message 4: by Janet

Nov 15, 2012 11:54AM

Sarah wrote: "Thanks for the add!!"

Thank you!

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Nov 15, 2012 10:18AM

Thanks for the add!!

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message 2: by Janet

Oct 22, 2010 08:07AM

Wonderful! See you here or in Seekerville!

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message 1: by Hannah

Oct 10, 2010 06:59PM

Hey Janet,
Sorry I hadn't found you on here yet!! LOL! Thanks for the friend request, of course I want to be friends with you, girl *grin*
Talk to you soon,
Hannah

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