Brand Family Books in Order
Brand Family by Maggie Shayne contains 16 books, published between 1996 and 2015: 15 in the 2 main-line series and 1 related title. The first book is The Littlest Cowboy (1996) and the newest main-line book is A Brand of Christmas (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 16
- Published
- 1996–2015
- Confirmed
- 1 of 16 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,198 in 12 of 16 books
- Reading time
- 53–80 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,198 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 16 titles with a page count on record.
The Brand Family appears across three Maggie Shayne series: Texas Brands, Oklahoma All-Girl Brands and Safe Haven. The catalogue holds 16 books from The Littlest Cowboy (1996) to A Brand of Christmas (2015). Subject tags include contemporary romance, romantic suspense, westerns, Oklahoma, ex-convicts and undercover operations. Badlands Bad Boy (1997), The Baddest Virgin in Texas (1997), The Outlaw Bride (1999) and The Brands Who Came for Christmas (2000) are among the titles.
How many Brand Family books are there?
Brand Family has 16 books, released between 1996 and 2015. 15 of them belong to the 2 main-line series (Texas Brands, Oklahoma All-Girl Brands), and 1 related title sit outside it: other titles.
Brand Family Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 16 Brand Family books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119963842/4
- 219972562/4
- 319972562/4
- 4The Husband She Couldn't Remember / Long Gone Lonesome BluesTexas Brands #41998 · 251 pages · confirmed 2/419982512/4
- 5The Mysterious Texas Brand Man / That Mysterious Man / Texas Guardian / The Lone CowboyTexas Brands #51998 · confirmed 2/41998–2/4
- 619992562/4
- 719992562/4
- 820002242/4
- 920002492/4
- 1020012562/4
- 1120013042/4
- 1220022503/4
- 1320052562/4
- 142006–2/4
- 152014–2/4
- 162015–2/4
Do you have to read Brand Family books in order?
You should read the 2 main-line series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 1 related title (other titles) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Brand Family book also stands alone.
Where to start with Brand Family
Start with The Littlest Cowboy (1996), the earliest published book in the 2 main-line series.
What is the newest Brand Family book?
A Brand of Christmas (2015) is the newest book in the 2 main-line series.
Is there a new Brand Family book coming?
No next Brand Family book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Brand Family at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest main-line Brand Family title on record is A Brand of Christmas (2015), 11 years ago.
- Release pace
- Brand Family books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,198 pages across the 12 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Brand Family books, 7 of 16, were published in the 2000s.
What the Brand Family books are about
12 of the 16 Brand Family books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: romance is tagged on 8 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Romance 8 of 12 books
- Attempted murder 2 of 12 books
- Ex-convicts 2 of 12 books
- Contemporary romance 2 of 12 books
- Women teachers 2 of 12 books
More books by Maggie Shayne
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Maggie Shayne books in order 121 books