Johanna Lindsey, whose best-selling romance novels told stories of unbridled passion, revenge, submission and abductions among aristocrats, debutantes, pirates and fearless heroines, died on Oct. 27 in Nashua, N.H., her family recently announced. She was 67.

The cause was complications of treatment for Stage 4 lung cancer, her son Alfred said. He said that the family had been too devastated by her death to announce it earlier.

Ms. Lindsey wrote her first novel on a whim and turned out nearly 60 more. Her most recent, “Temptation’s Darling,” published in July, told of a countess’s plans to have her daughter marry an arrogant rogue in 19th-century England.

Her books sold at least 60 million copies, according to her publisher, Simon & Schuster, and she ranked among the leading romance writers of her era, most notably Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers.