Bettye Griffin

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1999
  • Latest Book:
    September 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Gen/Liv/Cesca

1 - Save The Best For Last (Jul-2009)
2 - Something Real (Nov-2012)
3 - Man of Her Heart (Feb-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Arabesque

At Long Last Love (Jan-1999)
A Love of Her Own (Nov-1999)
Love Affair (Feb-2001)
Prelude to a Kiss (Dec-2001)
From This Day Forward (Aug-2002)
Closer Than Close (Jan-2003)
Straight to the Heart (Jan-2004)
Where There's Smoke (May-2005)
One On One (Sep-2006)
A Love For All Seasons (May-2007)

Eighty-Eight, Mississippi

1 - It Happened in Eighty-Eight (Apr-2016)
2 - Weekend in Eighty-Eight (Sep-2017)
3 - Since I Fell For You (May-2018)
4 - Dream Come True (Sep-2018)

Holiday Sparkle

1 - Love on Lake Shore Drive (Nov-2016)
3 - Holiday in Houston (Dec-2016)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • At Long Last Love

    Arabesque

    RIVALS IN BUSINESS As the savvy owner of the thriving take-out restaurant chain Soul Food to Go, Kendall Lucas' life is exciting and full of challenges. She has only one regret, that building a successful business has left little time for love. Then...

  • A Love of Her Own

    Arabesque

  • Love Affair

    Arabesque

    PRETEND MARRIAGE Austin Hughes has to get a wife--pronto! It's not that the happily single hotel consultant has any intention of actually walking down the aisle. He simply needs a female colleague to pose as his bride while he travels on business to...

  • Prelude to a Kiss

    Arabesque

    When It Comes To Love... The course of true love never runs smoothly, and for Vivian St. James, it's positively accident prone. From freak injuries to fainting spells, her dates always seem to need a doctor. But what Vivian needs is a husband. Whe...

  • From This Day Forward

    Arabesque

    With two teenage sisters and an ailing father to care for, thirty-two year old Cornelia "Hatch" Hatchet's dreams for her future are now confined to working the night shift at Super Kmart. Life in her dreary, poverty-stricken hometown of Farmingdale,...

  • Closer Than Close

    Arabesque

    Ivy Smith knows she's in a serious social slump when she finds her name listed on her high school Internet bulletin board?under "Classmates Who've Passed Away"! Ivy wants the world to know she's alive and kicking, and what better place to do that th...

  • Straight to the Heart

    Arabesque

    Freshly single, forlorn, and facing forty, Monique Oliver is looking to start over, and jumps at the offer to run a bed and breakfast in her mother's hometown of Washington, North Carolina. To Monique's amazement, the moment she gets to town she beco...

  • The People Next Door

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Moving into a new development on the Florida waterfront, Lisa Canfield is stunned to discover that her first husband and his new family are moving in next door, and soon past mistakes, old rivalries, and vicious accusations run rampant, forcing them ...

  • Where There's Smoke

    Arabesque

    After fifteen years, soap actress Thais Copeland comes face-to-face with the man she let get away: Lucien Ballard. After the pair exchange phone numbers and begin catching up on old times, Thais finds herself wondering who her life would have turned ...



  • Nothing but Trouble

    Both hilarious and poignant, Bettye Griffin's latest novel explores the lives and loves of three best friends who discover that there's nothing in the world they can't handle--as long as they stick together... Dana Covington never thought she'd be ...

  • One On One

    Arabesque

    After five years, Natasha Lawrence believes she is finally over the recurring nightmare of the last conversation she had with her husband, Tim, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11. She and her two sons have now comfortably settled into...

  • A Love For All Seasons

    Arabesque

    Alicia Timberlake was the woman of his dreams. And Jack Devlin couldn't believe his luck in finding her. But Alicia had always kept people at a distance, unwilling to let anyone...not even her family...close. Still, Jack wasn't about to give up the p...

  • If These Walls Could Talk

    In Bettye Griffin's If These Walls Could Talk, three very different families share the same dream: moving out of New York City and into a house--and a life--of their own... Reuben and Camille have always been afraid to send their children outside t...

  • Once Upon A Project

    Elyse, Susan, and Grace couldn't be happier when their friend Pat organizes a reunion for past residents of the Chicago housing project where they all grew up. It is, after all, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, and like their long...

  • A New Kind of Bliss

    After her father's death, Emily Yancy agrees to move back to the dead-end town she grew up in. But she's dreading every minute she'll have to spend in her mother's tiny apartment. After all, she's a forty-three-year-old divorcee who's been doing just...

  • Save The Best For Last

    Gen/Liv/Cesca - 1

    The author of the romance classic A LOVE OF HER OWN brings you a new, unforgettable love story, the first in a three-book connected storyline that includes Something Real and concludes with Man of Her Heart.THE LAW AND THE LADY . . .Graphic artist Ge...

  • Trouble down the Road

    From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort... Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a lot to be...

  • The Heat of Heat

    A steamy summer... Twentysomethings Chantal Hatchet, her sister Sinclair, and their good friend Yolanda Jones are working on building their careers. Their love lives, though, are another matter...until the night of rising singer Carlos Brown's concer...

  • A Kiss of a Different Color

    Out of desperation, long-term unemployed physical therapy assistant Miranda Rhett leaves her home in Racine, Wisconsin, to take a job in employment-rich Bismarck, North Dakota. Once there, far away from anyone who would tease her about her lifelong d...



  • Isn't She Lovely?

    The author of The Heat of Heat and A Kiss of A Different Color delivers a heart-tugging tale of loss and healing...When hard-working divorced mother Tracy Pegram learns that the driver who injured her eight-year-old in a hit-and-run accident is the...

  • Accidentally Yours

    Originally published in 2001 under the title Prelude to a Kiss, now available as an eBook for the first time!Why do Vivian St. James's dates always end up needing medical attention? And why is handsome ER doctor Zack Warner always around to treat th...

  • Something Real

    Gen/Liv/Cesca - 2

    Francesca Perry has a deep-rooted dislike of policemen, so when one of her friends introduces her to one of New York’s finest during a chance traffic encounter, she can barely disguise her hostility. But a freak accident soon has her at his mercy, ...

  • Man of Her Heart

    Gen/Liv/Cesca - 3

    eBook only, published February 16, 2013.This is a contemporary, modern romance and does contain sex.Olivia de Vries's world is shattered when she learns that her husband, Reese, has been cheating on her. She promptly files for divorce an...

  • Lost That Lovin' Feeling

    AUTHOR'S NOTE: Lost That Lovin’ Feeling is a short (approximately 25 pages) prequel (not a short story) to the upcoming mainstream romance novel Love Will Follow. It does not meet the technical definition of a short story, because rather than bein...

  • Love Will Follow

    In addition to a busy pediatric practice, Prentice Blake also serves as staff physician for the Lake County, Illinois, Child Protective Services. It is up to him to decide whether children’s injuries are from legitimate accidents or stem from negle...

  • Sinner Man

    In this prequel to the upcoming novel Secrets & Sins, author Bettye Griffin transports readers back to 1950s Chicago, to the wedding of Lorraine Hawkins and Vernon Pace. Lorraine is the daughter of a maid, while Vernon comes from one of the leading f...

  • Secrets & Sins

    From the Author: Secrets & Sins contains several plot twists that I hope will come as a surprise to readers. I love getting reviews, but PLEASE be considerate of other readers who haven't read the book yet and do not divulge these twists in the plo...

  • Love Will Grow

    In the final installment of Bettye Griffin’s Love Will series (preceded by the prequel Lost That Lovin’ Feeling and the novel Love Will Follow), Nylah Taylor has devoted herself to the care of her orphaned nephew, Dillon, since he was an infant. ...

  • A Time to Heal

    2 cars...1 crash...6 intertwined lives...Two years of sobriety come to a sudden end on a rainy Halloween night when an intoxicated driver runs a stop sign, resulting in the crunch of steel, shattered glass, and high-pitched screams as his car plows i...



  • It Happened in Eighty-Eight

    Eighty-Eight, Mississippi - 1

    In this first book in a new series, author Bettye Griffin introduces readers to Eighty-Eight, Mississippi, a town that has more secrets than it has magnolia blossoms...Schoolteacher Cornell Sebastian returns to the Mississippi town that had been her ...

  • It's Love She's After

  • Love on Lake Shore Drive

    Holiday Sparkle - 1

    ONE GORGEOUS RENTAL GOWN, FOUR MAGICAL NIGHTS...Get your holiday sparkle on with this novella of roughly 20,000 words, part of a series revolving around the Internet rental of one very special formal...Reine Robinson settles in for a long wait whe...

  • Holiday in Houston

    Holiday Sparkle - 3

    ONE GORGEOUS RENTAL GOWN, FOUR MAGICAL NIGHTS...Get your holiday sparkle on with this novella of roughly 20,000 words, part of a series revolving around the Internet rental of one very special formal...To Larissa Carvalho and her mother Valentina, th...

  • Weekend in Eighty-Eight

    Eighty-Eight, Mississippi - 2

    After the failure of her marriage nearly twenty years earlier, Simone Degree has settled into a routine small-town life, working as a high school librarian, caring for her elderly mother, taking an annual vacation, and going on the occasional date…...

  • And a Happy New York

    Experience the charm and beauty of New York during the holidays in this new novella from Bettye Griffin, featuring a hero first introduced in her Gen/Liv/Cesca series (Save the Best For Last, Something Real, Man of Her Heart).Eliáne Lara is happily ...

  • Since I Fell For You

    Eighty-Eight, Mississippi - 3

  • Dream Come True

    Eighty-Eight, Mississippi - 4

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bettye Griffin has published 37 books.

Bettye Griffin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dream Come True, was published in September 2018.

The first book by Bettye Griffin, At Long Last Love, was published in January 1999.

Yes. Bettye Griffin has 1 series.
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