| # | Title | Year | Notes | |---|-------|------|-------| | 1 | Going Home | 1973 | Debut novel | | 2 | Passion’s Promise | 1977 | Early romance formula | | 3 | Now and Forever | 1978 | | | 4 | The Promise | 1978 | | | 5 | Season of Passion | 1979 | | | 6 | Summer’s End | 1979 | | | 7 | The Ring | 1980 | First Deveraux book | | 8 | Loving | 1980 | | | 9 | Remembrance | 1981 | Second Deveraux | | 10 | Palomino | 1981 | |
By the 1990s, Steel’s formula was perfected. Her stories expanded to include more historical settings and complex multi-generational sagas. Message from Nam (1990) Heartbeat (1991) No Greater Love (1991) Jewels (1992) Mixed Blessings (1992) Vanished (1993) Accident (1994) The Gift (1994) Wings (1994) Five Days in Paris (1995) Lightning (1995) Malice (1996) Silent Honor (1996) The Ranch (1997) Special Delivery (1997) The Ghost (1997) The Long Road Home (1998) The Klone and I (1998) Mirror Image (1998) Bittersweet (1999) Granny Dan (1999) Irresistible Forces (1999) Exploring New Themes (2000–2010) danielle steel order of books
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Elara closed the laptop. She picked up The Ring , the book her grandmother had hidden in the newspaper.