Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Velvet Night | 1987 | Jo Goodman | Buy |
Velvet Night is the sole entry in Jo Goodman’s Passion’s Bride series. Published in 1987, it belongs to her early career when she was establishing her voice in historical romance. The book delivers the emotional intensity and period detail that would define her later work.
Goodman went on to write several multi-book historical romance series, including the Thorne Brothers and the Compass Club books, but Velvet Night stands on its own. The 1987 publication date places it among the early wave of mass-market historical romances that were popular throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Readers who have worked through Goodman’s later novels may want to track down Velvet Night to see where her career started. The book can be harder to find than her more recent titles, but it rewards fans who are curious about her earliest writing.