After her husband's death, Johanna moved to Maine, New England, to stay near her family. The marriage had three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who already have made her a grandmother.

In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he passed away in 1964 Johanna and her mother settled there to honor him. The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. and joining two courageous hearts in passionate, unexpected love. But neither he nor the Lady Rowena anticipates the direction the wheel will turn - uniting intimate adversaries against a deadly common enemy. For Destiny's wheel is forever spinning, and Warrick knows the time will inevitably come when the imprisoned becomes the captor, with the power to make his sensual tormentor suffer as he did in exquisite ecstasy. Yet all the while he is plotting a fitting and most satisfying revenge. But the lady's seductions are powerful - her sapphire eyes and lush, intoxicating beauty weaken his resolve, and it is the knight's own virility that betrays him. Captive, chained, and seething with rage, Warrick vows he will never surrender. The lady must take drastic action and so she has the noble warrior taken prisoner, intending to force him to bend to her amorous will. But Warrick is proud and stubborn, and he will be no man's - or woman's - pawn. His name is Warrick deChaville, a magnificent knight who possesses the strength, intelligence, and courage - as well as the extraordinary good looks - that Rowena would have passed on to her son. But in all of England there is only one man whom Rowena would have sire her child. The striking and spirited lady must produce an heir, for failure to do so will incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth.

Prisoner of my desire