Megan Crane


Megan Crane is an American novelist who also writes as Caitlin Crews.
She is also one half of upmarket paranormal women's fiction author Hazel Beck.

Background

She was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Goheen, the 16th president of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India and is also the great-great-granddaughter of Sir James Caruthers Rhea Ewing, distinguished Presbyterian missionary educator in what is now Pakistan. Crane graduated from Vassar College, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from the University of York in York, England. She is married to Jeff Johnson, the American comic book artist, animator, and one of the founders of the original Drink and Draw Social Club.

Novels

Crane is the author of over 150 novels, novellas, essays, and short stories.

Paranormal Women's Fiction

As Hazel Beck with co-author Nicole Helm from Graydon House:
The Witchlore Series:
  • Small Town, Big Magic
  • Big Little Spells
  • Truly Madly Magically
  • ''Dragon Fires Everywhere''

Chick lit (aka Rom Coms) and Women's fiction

Contemporary romance

As M.M. Crane from Berkley Books:
The Fortunes of Lost Lake series:
  • Bold Fortune
  • Reckless Fortune
As Caitlin Crews from St. Martin's Press:
The Cold River Ranch series:
  • A True Cowboy Christmas
  • Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy
  • The Last Real Cowboy
The Kittredge Ranch series, also set in Cold River, Colorado:
  • Secret Nights With a Cowboy and bonus novella Sweet Nights With a Cowboy
  • All Night Long With a Cowboy
  • Summer Nights With a Cowboy
As Caitlin Crews from Harlequin's HQN imprint:
The Jasper Creek series :
  • A Cowboy for All Seasons
  • A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy
  • Sweet Home Cowboy
  • The Comeback Cowboy
As Megan Crane from Tule Publishing:
  • Tempt Me, Cowboy was the first novella in the Copper Mountain Rodeo series, the flagship e-book project from Tule Publishing's Montana Born imprint.
  • A Game of Brides was nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2015.
  • Please Me, Cowboy
  • Come Home for Christmas, Cowboy was part of the 2015 Montana Born Christmas boxed set that hit the USA Today Bestseller list at #78.
  • In Bed with the Bachelor
  • Her novella "Project Virgin" originally appeared in a self-published boxed set with other authors called Love Ever After, which debuted on the USA Today Bestseller List at #138. It then came out as a single title from Tule Publishing in January 2016.
  • Cody ; title changed to The Most Dangerous Cowboy
  • Have Yourself A Crazy Little Christmas
  • Tempt Me Please, Cowboy
The Careys of Cowboy Point series:
  • The Cowboy's Mail-Order Bride
  • The Cowboy's Forbidden Bride
  • The Cowboy's Secret Babies
  • The Cowboy's Best Friend
  • ''A Christmas Baby for the Cowboy''

Romantic suspense

The Alaska Force series from Berkley Books:
  • SEAL's Honor
  • Sniper's Pride
  • Sergeant's Christmas Siege
  • Delta Force Defender
  • ''Special Ops Seduction''

Biker romance

  • Make You Burn Book One in the Deacons of Bourbon Street series featuring multiple authors, from Loveswept, a division of Random House. The entire Deacons of Bourbon Street series was published by Headline Eternal in the UK.
  • Devil's Honor, the first in the Devil's Keepers outlaw MC series, a spin-off of Crane's Deacons of Bourbon Street book.
  • Devil's Mark
  • ''Devil's Own''

Dystopian Viking erotic romance

  • Edge of Obsession Book One in the Edge series from St. Martin's Press.
  • Edge of Temptation
  • Edge of Control
  • Edge of Power
  • Edge of Ruin featuring three novellas set in Crane's post-apocalyptic, futuristic world, "Danger's Edge," "Need's Edge," and "Raider's Edge."

Harlequin category romance

Crane also writes romance novels for Harlequin Presents and Harlequin Historical, two category romance lines from Harlequin, as Caitlin Crews.
Her debut, Pure Princess, Bartered Bride, was published in February 2010, debuting on the USA Today Bestseller List at #112.
Subsequent novels for Presents include:
  • Majesty, Mistress...Missing Heir
  • Katrakis's Last Mistress
  • Princess from the Past
  • The Shameless Playboy
  • The Replacement Wife
  • Heiress Behind the Headlines
  • The Man Behind the Scars
  • In Defiance of Duty
  • A Devil In Disguise
  • No More Sweet Surrender, which was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Harlequin Presents for 2013.
  • A Royal Without Rules, which was nominated for the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2014.
  • A Scandal in the Headlines, which was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Harlequin Presents for 2013.
  • Not Just The Boss's Plaything
  • Scandalize Me, Book Two in the trade paperback Fifth Avenue Trilogy featuring three different authors
  • Undone By the Sultan's Touch, which was accorded the rare 4 1/2 Gold rating meaning: "Phenomenal. In a class by itself." by RT Book Reviews and was also nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Harlequin Presents for 2014.
  • His For a Price, Book One in the Vows of Convenience series
  • His For Revenge, Book Two in the Vows of Convenience series
  • At the Count's Bidding, which was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Harlequin Presents for 2015.
  • Greek's Last Redemption
  • Protected the Desert Heir Book One in the Scandalous Sheikh Brides series
  • The Billionaire's Innocent Book Three in the Forbidden Trilogy featuring three different authors
  • Traded to the Desert Sheikh Book Two in the Scandalous Sheikh Brides series
  • Unwrapping the Castelli Secret
  • Castelli's Virgin Widow
  • Expecting a Royal Scandal, which was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Series Romance for 2016
  • The Return of the Di Sione Wife
  • The Guardian's Virgin Ward
  • Bride by Royal Decree
  • The Prince's Nine-month Scandal Book One in the Scandalous Royal Brides series
  • The Billionaire's Secret Princess Book Two in the Scandalous Royal Brides series
  • Undone by the Billionaire Duke
  • A Baby to Bind His Bride
  • Imprisoned by the Greek's Ring
  • The Bride's Baby of Shame Book Two in the Stolen Brides duet with Jane Porter
  • Sheikh's Secret Love-Child Book Four in the Bound to the Desert King quartet with three other authors
  • My Bought Virgin Wife
  • The Italian's Twin Consequences
  • Untamed Billionaire's Innocent Bride, which is Caitlin Crews's 50th book for Harlequin
  • His Two Royal Secrets
  • Unwrapping the Innocent's Secret
  • Secrets of His Forbidden Cinderella
  • The Italian's Pregnant Cinderella
  • Claimed in the Italian's Castle
  • Christmas in the King's Bed
  • His Scandalous Christmas Princess
  • Chosen for His Desert Throne
  • The Secret That Can't Be Hidden
  • Her Deal with the Greek Devil
  • The Sicilian's Forgotten Wife
  • The Bride He Stole for Christmas
  • The Scandal That Made Her His Queen
  • Crowning His Lost Princess
  • Reclaiming His Ruined Princess
  • Willed to Wed Him
  • The Christmas He Claimed the Secretary
  • The Accidental Accardi Heir
  • A Secret Heir to Secure His Throne
  • What Her Sicilian Husband Desires
  • The Desert King's Kidnapped Virgin
  • The Spaniard's Last-Minute Wife
  • A Billion-Dollar Heir For Christmas
  • Wedding Night in the King's Bed
  • A Tycoon Too Wild to Wed
  • Her Venetian Secret
  • Pregnant Princess Bride
  • Forbidden Royal Vows
  • Greek's Christmas Heir
  • Greek's Enemy Bride
  • Carrying A Sicilian Secret
  • Kidnapped for His Revenge
  • Her Accidental Spanish Heir, which is Caitlin's 100th book for Harlequin
Her Harlequin Historical novels include:
  • Kidnapped by the Viking
  • The Viking's Runaway Concubine
Crane, as Crews, also wrote nine novels for Harlequin Dare, Harlequin's short-lived erotic romance line.
  • Unleashed Book One in the Hotel Temptation series
  • Undone Book Two in the Hotel Temptation series
  • Untamed Book Three in the Hotel Temptation series
  • The Risk Book Two in a quartet with three other authors
  • Teach Me Book One in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • Take Me Book Two in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • Tempt Me Book Three in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • The Pleasure Contract Book One in the Summer Seductions duet
  • Just One More Night Book Two in the Summer Seductions duet
Her novella "The Reluctant Queen" appears in an anthology called A Royal Engagement. She has also written a number of short stories for Presents, Dare, and Woman's World, including "His Christmas Captive", "His Wife by Christmas", "Strangers in the Sauna", "A New Leaf", "Captured by a Desert King", "Unruly", "The Prince's Runaway Bride", and "A Royal Surrender".

Other

In addition to writing books, Crane has taught creative writing courses online at mediabistro and at the prestigious UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She has also contributed essays to It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties, edited by Emily Franklin, Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O'Connell, Writing the Bestseller: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Jane Porter and Rebecca Lyles, Writing the Bestseller II: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Lindsey Stover, and A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, edited by Eleanor Brown.