Megan Crane (born c. 1973) is an American novelist who also writes as Caitlin Crews.
She is also one half of upmarket paranormal women's fiction author Hazel Beck.
Background
She was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Goheen, the 16th president of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India and is also the great great granddaughter of Sir James Caruthers Rhea Ewing (1854-1925), distinguished Presbyterian missionary educator in what is now Pakistan. Crane graduated from Vassar College, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of York in York, England. She is married to Jeff Johnson, the American comic book artist, animator, and one of the founders of the original Drink and Draw Social Club.
Novels
Crane is the author of over one hundred novels, novellas, essays, and short stories.
Paranormal Women's Fiction
As Hazel Beck with co-author Nicole Helm from Graydon House:
The Witchlore Series: Small Town, Big Magic (August 2022) Big Little Spells (August 2023) Truly Madly Magically (August 2024)
Chick lit and Women's fiction
English as a Second Language was published by Warner Books in 2004. Everyone Else's Girl was published by Warner Books' 5 Spot imprint in 2005. Frenemies was a Book Sense Notable in July 2007. It was also nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award in Chick Lit for 2007. Names My Sisters Call Me was published by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books) in 2008. I Love the 80s, was published by Quercus Books in the UK in March 2011 and Once More With Feeling came out from Quercus in December 2012. Both of these books were released for the North American market by Tule Publishing in 2014.
Contemporary romance
As M.M. Crane from Berkley Books:
The Fortunes of Lost Lake series: Bold Fortune (January 2022) Reckless Fortune (September 2022)
As Caitlin Crews from St. Martin's Press:
The Cold River Ranch series: A True Cowboy Christmas (October 2018) Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy (August 2019) The Last Real Cowboy (January 2020)
The Kittredge Ranch series, also set in Cold River, Colorado: Secret Nights With a Cowboy and bonus novella Sweet Nights With a Cowboy (December 2020) All Night Long With a Cowboy (August 2021) Summer Nights With a Cowboy (March 2022)
As Caitlin Crews from Harlequin's HQN imprint:
The Jasper Creek series (four stories in one, written with Jackie Ashenden, Nicole Helm, and Maisey Yates): A Cowboy for All Seasons (March 2020) A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy (January 2020) Sweet Home Cowboy (March 2022) The Comeback Cowboy (March 2023)
As Megan Crane from Tule Publishing: Tempt Me, Cowboy (September 2013) was the first novella in the Copper Mountain Rodeo series, the flagship e-book project from Tule Publishing's Montana Born imprint. A Game of Brides (May 2014) was nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2015. Please Me, Cowboy (September 2014) Come Home for Christmas, Cowboy (November 2014) was part of the 2015 Montana Born Christmas boxed set that hit the USA Today Bestseller list at #78. In Bed with the Bachelor (March 2015) Her novella "Project Virgin" originally appeared in a self-published boxed set with other authors called Love Ever After, which debuted on the USA Today Bestseller List at #138. It then came out as a single title from Tule Publishing in January 2016. Cody (May 2017) Have Yourself A Crazy Little Christmas (October 2017) Tempt Me Please, Cowboy (September 2023)
Romantic suspense
The Alaska Force series from Berkley Books: SEAL's Honor (November 2018) Sniper's Pride (May 2019) Sergeant's Christmas Siege (October 2019) Delta Force Defender (July 2020) Special Ops Seduction (January 2021)
Biker romance
Make You Burn (August 2015) Book One in the Deacons of Bourbon Street series featuring multiple authors, from Loveswept, a division of Random House. The entire Deacons of Bourbon Street series was published by Headline Eternal in the UK. Devil's Honor (November 2016), the first in the Devil's Keepers outlaw MC series, a spin-off of Crane's Deacons of Bourbon Street book. Devil's Mark (January 2017) Devil's Own (May 2017)
Dystopian Viking erotic romance
Edge of Obsession (January 2016) Book One in the Edge series from St. Martin's Press. Edge of Temptation (April 2016) Edge of Control (July 2016) Edge of Power (March 2017) Edge of Ruin (August 2017) featuring three novellas set in Crane's post-apocalyptic, futuristic world, "Danger's Edge," "Need's Edge," and "Raider's Edge."