| Linda Howard mainly writes solo novels. | | | | was acquitted after some time spent in jail when |
| Sometimes there are connecting characters but | | | | they finally caught the true culprit but the town |
| not really series as such. Most authors these days | | | | folk still treated him like a criminal. |
| seem to be writing series books, the authors I | | | | The following stories are about their children. |
| have been enjoying anyway. | | | | MacKenzie's Mission is about Wolf's oldest son Joe, |
| I have noticed when I visit a place like Fantastic | | | | who in MacKenzie's Mountain Mary helped realize |
| Fiction they group some books from Linda | | | | his dream to fly by making him see the wisdom |
| Howard into series. While it's true that there are | | | | of continuing with his studies. Joe also has some |
| certain connecting characters and themes they | | | | demons left over from when his father was in jail. |
| are pushing it with some of those matches. | | | | MacKenzie's Pleasure is about Zane, Wolf and |
| There is one series however that Linda Howard | | | | Mary's son who becomes a Navy Seal. He |
| did write and it was a very popular series at that. | | | | rescues Barrie Lovejoy from terrorists. |
| The MacKenzies! She wrote them while writing | | | | MacKenzie's Magic was originally a short story |
| category romances for Silhouette and they are | | | | written in an anthology about Wolf and Mary's |
| still great reads to this day. In fact I have the | | | | only daughter, Maris. It is now available on it's own |
| first one MacKenzie's Mountain as my top favorite | | | | and A Game of Chance is about their adopted |
| Linda Howard book. | | | | son Chance. |
| There are five books in the Mackenzies, here is | | | | As I said, this series was incredibly popular and |
| the reading order: | | | | the one character readers were screaming out to |
| 1. MacKenzie's Mountain (1989) | | | | have their own story was Chance. It took awhile |
| 2. MacKenzie's Mission (1992) | | | | for his story to be realized. In fact, I didn't think it |
| 3. MacKenzie's Pleasure (1996) | | | | was going to happen as Linda Howard had left |
| 4. MacKenzie's Magic (1996) | | | | writing category romances at this stage and was |
| 5. A Game of Chance (2000) | | | | solely writing novels. But finally in 2000 A Game |
| The first is the best in my opinion. In fact I enjoy | | | | of Chance was released. |
| them in the order listed. MacKenzie's Mountain is | | | | Personally, I don't think Linda Howard's heart was |
| about Wolf MacKenzie and a school teacher Mary. | | | | in it. It's not one of her best books, but it does |
| Wolf is half Apache with a teenage son. Wolf was | | | | finish off the MacKenzies and it was a reasonable |
| arrested for a crime he never committed but | | | | read. |