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Joanne Baldwin:  Weather Warden.  Fashion addict.  Professional -- though unwilling -- hero.  In a world where Mother Earth doesn't play nice, and Djinn are just as likely to give you a nasty surprise instead of three wishes, she's part of the thin well-dressed line protecting the innocent.

When she's not running from mortal peril herself.

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ILL WIND:  Book 1

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden.  Usually all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather.  But now Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm:   accusations of corruption and murder.  So she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life ...

Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful Warden of them all.  Unfortunately, he's also on the run from the World Council.  It seems he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn -- making him the most wanted man on earth.  And without Lewis, Joanne's chances of surviving are as good as a snowball in -- well, a place she may soon be headed.  So she and her classic Mustang are racing hard to find him because there's some bad weather closing in fast ...

Release date:   December 2003
Publisher:  ROC

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HEAT STROKE:  Book 2

Joanne's survived one challenge ... technically ... but she's got a whole new set of problems.  With the help of a hot supernatural lover, her chances of surviving look bright -- until things go wrong.  There's trouble coming, and it's not confined to River City ... or to the Wardens.  No, this trouble could kill every Djinn on the planet -- and unleash a storm that could send humanity to join them.

Armed with keen fashion sense, lime green Manolo Blahniks and a really fast car, Joanne prepares to do battle with the enemy.

Just one problem ... it may be Joanne herself.

Release date:   August 2004
Publisher:  ROC

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CHILL FACTOR:  Book 3

Living, dead, or Djinn, Joanne Baldwin just can't stay out of trouble.  Now she's on a time-sensitive mission to Vegas to retrieve the world's most important Djinn from the world's most dangerous teenager ... all alone.  That's bad enough, but having to deal with a past that's determined to bury her, and suffering from serious wardrobe shortages ... well, that's over the line. 

One thing's for certain:  she's gambling everything this time.

Release date:  January 2005
Publisher:  ROC

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WINDFALL:  Book 4

You think you're having a bad day? Joanne's lost her job as a Weather Warden, and saving the world generally doesn't come with a decent retirement check. It also doesn't come with any guarantees of landing a day job that won't suck, or being able to find a mystical cure for her critically ill Djinn lover. Burdened with a difficult sister in need of rescue, accused of weather-related murder, and finding herself in the middle of a Djinn civil war ... well, Joanne's bad times are just getting worse.

With enemies approaching from all sides, not to mention mounting credit card bills (Manolo Blahniks don't come cheap!), Joanne is praying for a windfall ... but the mother of all hurricanes approaching the Florida coast isn't exactly what she has in mind.

Release date:  November 2005
Publisher:  ROC

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FIRESTORM:  Book 5

The agreement between the Wardens and the Djinn is in ruins.  Mother Earth is waking up, and man, is she pissed.  Add to that a new (fully grown) daughter, an absentee Djinn lover who's just become the most powerful being in the world, and an increasingly desperate race against time.

And yet ... for Joanne Baldwin, things are about to go downhill from there.  The most intense high-stakes game she's ever played is about to go very, very wrong.

Release date:  September 2006
Publisher:  ROC

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THIN AIR:  Book 6

Joanne Baldwin gambled everything ... and now, she doesn't even know whether she won or lost.  In fact, she doesn't know anything.  Who she is, for starters.  Who these hot guys David and Lewis are, although it's a point in their favor that they seem to be trying to save her life.  She's missing time, and she's missing memories, and something out there is trying to get whatever she's got left.

This time, it isn't about saving the world.

It's about saving herself. 

Release date:  August 2007
Publisher:  ROC

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GALE FORCE:  Book 7

It's time Joanne Baldwin had a break.  But is she getting one?  Nooooooo.  Instead, someone's calling up earthquakes to make her life miserable.  Even David asking her to marry him can't solve her problems, and in fact, it may be adding to them, because someone has a grudge against mystical mixed marriages ... and it's someone David, and the rest of the Djinn, can't even sense, much less stop.

The storm's coming ... and it's going to be bad.

Release date:  August 5, 2008
Publisher:  ROC

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