Richard Sandomir of The New York Times explained, Her most popular books are a series of Regency sagas about the fictional Malory family ( see Family Tree). Owing to their diversity of settings Lindsey's work covers a number of romance subgenres, including historical fiction ( medieval, Regency, American frontier, and Viking eras) and science fiction.

As of 2006 more than fifty-eight million copies of her books had been sold worldwide, and her work has been translated into twelve languages. The book was a success, as have been the forty-nine novels that followed. Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride, in 1977 'on a whim'. After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry. The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels.

Make Me Love You by Johanna Lindsey