Susan Wiggs
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At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific.
She’s come home.
Home to a place she thought she’d left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline launched a career in the glamorous fashion world of Manhattan. But her success in New York imploded on a wave of scandal and tragedy, forcing her to flee to the only safe place she...
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Bella Vista volume 3
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"In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative--not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it's best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it, she plans...
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Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm...
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Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script...
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Bella Vista volume 4
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost and Found Bookshop brings readers a can't-miss tale of friendship, hardship, redemption, and love between a San Francisco baker and a barbecue master from Texas. Jerome Sugar learned the art of baking in his grandma's bakery, also called Sugar, on historic Perdita Street in San Francisco. He supplies baked goods to the Lost and Found Bookshop across the street. When the restaurant that shares his...
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"Caught between two worlds, Caleb Stoltz is bound by a deathbed promise to raise his orphaned niece and nephew in Middle Grove, where life revolves around family, farm, faith--and long-held suspicions about outsiders. When disaster strikes, Caleb is thrust into an urban environment of high-tech medicine and the relentless rush of modern life. Dr. Reese Powell is poised to join the medical dynasty of her wealthy, successful parents. Bold, assertive,...
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Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her. Camille, Julie, and Camille's father return to the...
8) The mistress
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Most days Kathleen O'Leary is a penniless maid. But tonight she takes a risk and masquerades as a glamorous heiress, thanks to a borrowed gown and her friends' sense of adventure. To her surprise, the ruse succeeds—even Dylan Kennedy, Chicago's most eligible bachelor, seems enraptured.
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Calhoun chronicles volume 2
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"Southern plantation owner Hunter Calhoun gambles the success of his Virginia horse farm on an Irish stallion; unfortunately, the animal arrives crazed and unrideable after the stormy sea crossing. Desperate, Hunter turns to Eliza Flyte, the horsemaster's daughter, who has inherited her father's gift for gentling horses. " -- Amazon.com.
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Successful advertising executive Michelle Turner steels herself for a difficult encounter with her past when she returns to the small Montana town where she grew up to donate a kidney to her estranged father, and to make peace with Sam McPhee, her ranch-hand lover--now a prosperous rancher and doctor--who left town seventeen years earlier before learning that she was pregnant with his child.
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"With a little determination and a lot of charm, Rosa Capoletti took a run-down pizza joint and turned it into an award-winning restaurant that has been voted "best place to propose" three years in a row. For Rosa, though, there has been no real romance since her love affair with Alexander Montgomery ended without explanation a decade ago. But guess who's just come back to town?
Reunited at the beach house where they first fell in love, Rosa and...
12) The charm school
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Isadora Peabody is an awkward misfit in her beautiful and accomplished family. With nothing to lose, she seizes the chance to journey to a new world in search of a dream. Enter Ryan Calhoun, fiery, tempermental sea captain. His crew of motley sailors becomes Isadora's own personal charm school, teaching her to be a lady--and to believe in love.
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After she decides to sell her beach house, a widow must decide whether to risk trusting a romantic new man in her life with deep, dark secrets — and possibly her heart.
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
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In this riveting conclusion to the Tudor Rose trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs draws readers into the lives of a witty street performer, a chivalrous Irishman, and the passionate alliegance that blossoms between them.
Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into serious trouble, she throws herself upon the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O'Donoghue.
Pippa...
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John Wesley Hawkins was condemned to hang for treason and heresy, but the Lord Protector offers mercy if Wesley agrees to travel to Ireland on a dangerous mission into the heart of the Irish resistance. Seducing secrets from a headstrong Irishwoman shouldn't be a problem for a man of Wesley's reputation. And when Wesley walks out of the mist that fateful night, Caitlin MacBride's faith in the magic of Ireland is briefly restored.
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Tudor rose trilogy volume 1
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Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an innocent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient ... though undeniably fetching. But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief - she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the slaughter of...
17) A summer affair
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Calhoun chronicles volume 5
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Isabel Fish-Wooten has spent most of her life on the run, until she meets Blue Calhoun, a physician who saves her life and opens her heart to new
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Tudor rose trilogy volume 2
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A foiled execution, a queen's tense reign, and an unlikely romance: sparks fly between a hedonistic noble and a feisty activist in this thrilling historical tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs.
Roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey has always lived lavishly: wine, weapons and women are his bywords. Even salvation from the noose by a shadowy society provides no epiphany to mend his debauched ways.
Mistress Lark's sole passion...
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Washington, D.C., 1870s
At a glittering White House gala, Abigail Cabot discovers the man of her dreams. Only, he's not interested...yet. So the gifted lady astronomer, whose passion for measuring stars has left her woefully lacking in social graces, seeks someone to educate her...someone who is a master at the art of seduction.
Jamie Calhoun's handsome looks and easy charm have made him as popular on the Senate floor as he is with the capital's...
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Experience the magical romance of a New York Christmas in this classic tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs...
Elaine St. James has it all-a thriving career as an elite Manhattan publicist, A-list best friends and a gorgeous, high-profile boyfriend her parents adore. But when Byron breaks up with her on Christmas Eve, Elaine is faced with the prospect of spending the holidays alone...until the man she loved long ago reappears,...