Mariah Stewart

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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About the Author

Mariah Stewart considers herself extremely lucky to have the best job in the world, especially one she can do in her pajamas. Stewart has written over 31 novels and 4 novellas and is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Growing up in New Jersey, Stewart has been awarded with the Golden Leaf Award from the New Jersey Romance Writers three times and their Lifetime Achievement Award.

She has also won many other awards including a RIO award for excellence in women's fiction. Stewart is a member of many writing associations including Novelists, Inc. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two dogs where they garden and enjoy the country life.

Full Series List in Order

The Chesapeake Diaries

1 - Coming Home (Mar-2010)
2 - Home Again (Aug-2010)
3 - Almost Home (Mar-2011)
4 - Hometown Girl (Oct-2011)
5 - Home for the Summer (Jun-2012)
6 - The Long Way Home (Feb-2013)
7 - At the River's Edge (Feb-2014)
8 - On Sunset Beach (Jul-2014)
9 - That Chesapeake Summer (Jun-2015)
10 - Driftwood Point (Jun-2016)
11 - The Chesapeake Bride (Sep-2017)
12 - Dune Drive (Aug-2018)

Dead

1 - Dead Wrong (Jun-2004)
2 - Dead Certain (Jul-2004)
3 - Dead Even (Aug-2004)
4 - Dead End (Aug-2005)

Enright

1 - Devlin's Light (Aug-1997)
2 - Wonderful You (Jul-1998)
3 - Moon Dance (Dec-1998)
4 - Priceless (Jul-1999)

FBI

1 - Brown-Eyed Girl (Apr-2000)
2 - Voices Carry (Feb-2001)
3 - Until Dark (Apr-2003)
Dead Wrong (Jun-2004)
Dead Certain (Jul-2004)
Dead Even (Aug-2004)
Cold Truth (Aug-2005)
Dead End (Aug-2005)
Hard Truth (Sep-2005)
Dark Truth (Oct-2005)
Final Truth (Jun-2006)
Last Look (May-2007)
Last Words (Jul-2007)
Last Breath (Aug-2007)

Hudson Sisters

1 - Last Chance Matinee (Mar-2017)
2 - The Sugarhouse Blues (May-2018)
3 - The Goodbye Cafe (Mar-2019)

Last

1 - Last Look (May-2007)
2 - Last Words (Jul-2007)
3 - Last Breath (Aug-2007)

A Mercy Street Novel

1 - Mercy Street (May-2008)
2 - Cry Mercy (May-2009)
3 - Acts of Mercy (Aug-2009)

Truth

1 - Cold Truth (Aug-2005)
2 - Hard Truth (Sep-2005)
3 - Dark Truth (Oct-2005)
4 - Final Truth (Jun-2006)

Wyndham Beach

1 - An Invincible Summer (May-2021)
2 - Goodbye Again (Feb-2022)
3 - All That We Are (Dec-2022)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Moments in Time

    THEY WERE AN IDYLLIC SUPERSTAR COUPLE AND THEIR DARKEST SECRETS WERE ABOUT TO BE EXPOSED... After fifteen years of a storybook marriage and seven children, British singer-songwriter J.D. Borders and his American wife, Maggie, were icons of rock 'n...

  • A Different Light

    SHE FOUGHT A WOMAN'S BATTLE IN A MAN'S WORLD--BUT IT COULD COST HER AN UNEXPECTED CHANCE TO LOVE Beautiful, vibrant Athena Moran was known in the town of Woodside Heights, New Jersey, as the daughter of beloved former city councilman Afi Stavros a...

  • Carolina Mist

    REUNITED AFTER YEARS APART, CAN TWO KINDRED SPIRITS REKINDLE THE PASSION OF THEIR FIRST LOVE? Since the age of nineteen, Abigail McKenna has been on her own. Working hard to fulfill her dream of professional success and financial security, Abby ha...

  • Devlin's Light

    Enright - 1

    Though India Devlin left her hometown to pursue a brilliant career as a criminal prosecutor, she has always loved historic Devlin's Light, returning to visit as often as her busy schedule permits. But after her brother is found murdered on the steps ...

  • If Only In My Dreams

    in Upon a Midnight Clear

    A lively family reunion on a Montana ranch brings on a flurry of memories for a beautiful young writer -- and a winter storm that rekindles an old flame....

  • Wonderful You

    Enright - 2

    Twenty-eight, single, and struggling to keep her funky little shop of handicrafts afloat, Zoey Enright never thought she would become a celebrity like her mother, an internationally acclaimed mystery writer. But to her surprise, a knockout audition l...

  • Moon Dance

    Enright - 3

    Georgia Enright has dedicated her life to dance. But at age twenty-six, her dreams of becoming a lead dancer are fleeting. Having missed college and the sweet moments of ordinary life, she ventures to Pumpkin Hill, an old farm owned by her newly foun...

  • Priceless

    Enright - 4

    When underwater archaeologist Sam McGowan is asked to help salvage a sunken Confederate blockade runner, he's eager for the opportunity to investigate his own family history--especially since the project is being handled by Gordon Chandler, a notable...

  • Swept Away

    in Under the Boardwalk

    New York Times bestselling author LINDA HOWARD lures a sheriff into a scorching murder mystery--and into the arms of a lover from the heart of the South: the wet and wild bayou. GERALYN DAWSON traces a precious heirloom--and heats up a past marriage-...



  • Brown-Eyed Girl

    FBI - 1

    As co-owner and features editor of a popular magazine, Leah McDevitt loves exploring the exotic locales while she tracks fashion and social trends across the globe. Yet despite her devotion to her fast-paced career, Leah is haunted by the memory of h...

  • Voices Carry

    FBI - 2

    In the dark of night, long-ago memories can come back with a vengeance.... FBI agent Genna Snow's successful career cannot fully erase the heartache of a shattered childhood. After breaking the silence surrounding the abusive acts of a summer ...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    in Wait Until Dark

    Coming home to Montana after a stalker's attack, a model finds an old love rekindled and a safe place for healing. Until her attacker finds her .......

  • The President's Daughter

    BLOODLINE Dina McDermott is on top of the world. Attractive and independent at thirty, she runs her own business, funded by a generous inheritance. But an explosive chain of events will soon be set in motion - and her perfect life will spin out of...

  • Until Dark

    FBI - 3

    FACE TIME A skilled compositor for the FBI, Kendra Smith has a way with witnesses, helping them to remember crucial details about their attackers they might otherwise have forgotten. She believes her work helps to provide closure for the victims a...

  • Dead Wrong

    Dead - 1
    FBI

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOW MURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE FIRST IS FREE. It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had...

  • Dead Certain

    Dead - 2
    FBI

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOWMURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE SECOND IS FREE. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim a...

  • Dead Even

    Dead - 3
    FBI

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOW MURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE THIRD IS FREE. FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fel...

  • Cold Truth

    FBI
    Truth - 1

    TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back th...

  • Dead End

    Dead - 4
    FBI

    When FBI agent Dylan Shields was killed in an undercover drug deal two years ago, his colleague (and fiancee) Annie Marie McCall was left alone with too many unanswered questions - and nothing to do but hit the job as hard as she could to escape the ...



  • Hard Truth

    FBI
    Truth - 2

    TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple's mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' p...

  • Dark Truth

    FBI
    Truth - 3

    WILL THE TRUTH SET HER FREE - OR SET A TRAP? Murder didn't end Nina Madden's life - it destroyed it. When her father was charged with the serial killings of several college students, Nina and her mother became pariahs in their small Maryland town....

  • Final Truth

    FBI
    Truth - 4

    Star crime journalist Regan Landry has long struggled to emerge from the shadow of her literary-legend father. Now she's onto the story of a lifetime: a convicted rapist-murderer freed from death row hours before his execution. Lester Ray Barnes had ...

  • Last Look

    FBI
    Last - 1

    THE TRUTH WON'T STAY BURIED. News that the body of a recently murdered prostitute -- stabbed repeatedly and dumped on Georgia's Shelter Island -- has been identified as Shannon Randall stuns the FBI, particularly special agent Dorsey Collins. Twen...

  • Last Words

    FBI
    Last - 2

    THIS KILLER TAKES THEIR BREATH AWAY. A nine-year veteran of the FBI, special agent Mia Shields thinks she's seen it all. But nothing prepares her for the terror that descends upon the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Maryland's Eastern ...

  • Last Breath

    FBI
    Last - 3

    As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the most important project of her career--a university museum exhibit showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather unearthed a century earlier in the Middle East--she makes a shocking di...

  • Mercy Street

    A Mercy Street Novel - 1

    After two high school seniors are shot dead in a park in Conroy, Pennsylvania, the authorities conclude that one of the other two kids in the park that night -- a boy and a girl, both now missing -- was the killer. Private investigator Mallory Russo ...

  • Forgotten

    WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DEAD WHEN THEY SCREAM BLOODY MURDER? Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a plea bargain for multiple llife sentences in exchange for revealing the whereabouts of ...

  • Cry Mercy

    A Mercy Street Novel - 2

    After Ann Nolan, a California beat cop, adopts the daughter of a notorious drug dealer, the ruthless father vows to take back his only child. In response, Ann flees across the country, changes her name, and starts a new life as an investigator for th...

  • Justice Served

    in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this propulsive Thriller Short, bestselling author Mariah Stewart spins a tale of ...



  • Acts of Mercy

    A Mercy Street Novel - 3

    Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative -- and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the te...

  • Coming Home

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 1

    In the wake of his wife's murder, agent Grady Shields turned his back on the FBI -- and everything else -- to retreat into the vast solitude of Montana, grieve for his lost love, and forget the world. But after years in seclusion, his sister's weddin...

  • Home Again

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 2

    Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, she's an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, Dallas'...

  • Almost Home

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 3

    When she was young, Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days, Steffie is the proud owner of One Scoop or Two, a wildly popular i...

  • Hometown Girl

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 4

    Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her ...

  • Home for the Summer

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 5

    Some of Lucy Sinclair's best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennis -- working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucy’s darkest day...

  • Without Mercy

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    In this Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling writer Mariah Stewart weaves a chilling tale about a missing child. Mallory Russo left the local police force two years ago to join the Mercy Street Foundation, an elite unit for finding the missing ...

  • The Long Way Home

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 6

    As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for swindling billions of dollars from innoc...

  • At the River's Edge

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 7

    After taking stock of her life, Sophie Enright has decided it’s time for a break. Between a law career that’s become criminally dull and a two-timing boyfriend she’s done with once and for all, Sophie desperately needs some time to think and so...

  • On Sunset Beach

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 8

    Carly Summit’s name couldn’t be more fitting, since in life she always lands on top. She grew up wealthy and privileged in a tony Connecticut town, opened her own gallery in New York City, and is about to make art world history displaying previou...



  • That Chesapeake Summer

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 9

    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the latest book in her celebrated Chesapeake Diaries, a small-town romance series in the tradition of Barbara Freethy, Susan Mallery, and Robyn Carr. Jamie Valentine is the wildly success...

  • Driftwood Point

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 10

    The sun sets on the Chesapeake Diaries, New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart’s cherished series based on Maryland’s picturesque eastern shore, with this romantic tale of a man who takes a second chance on love with the high school cru...

  • Last Chance Matinee

    Hudson Sisters - 1

    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father’s dying wish. In the process, they find not only th...

  • The Chesapeake Bride

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 11

    Architect Cassidy Logan has sworn off good-looking adventurers. Newly divorced, she’s focused on building ecologically friendly, historically accurate homes on the Chesapeake Bay for her father’s construction company. Traveling to Cannonball Isla...

  • The Sugarhouse Blues

    Hudson Sisters - 2

    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes more "catnip for women's fiction fans" (Booklist) in the second novel of the Hudson Sisters series. Allie, Des, and Cara, each having her own reasons for wanting a share of their father'...

  • Dune Drive

    The Chesapeake Diaries - 12

    New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart returns to her beloved Chesapeake Diaries series with a charming beachside romance that is “everything you love about small-town romance” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy). ...

  • The Goodbye Cafe

    Hudson Sisters - 3

    From Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Chesapeake Diaries series, comes the next book in her popular Hudson Sisters series, which follows a trio of reluctant sisters who set out to fulfill their father’s dying wish and discov...

  • Brandywine Brides

    BRANDYWINE BridesA Blackwood Legacy AnthologyOne Family - Seven Generations - A Legacy of Love Almost three centuries ago, a Scottish convict was sold into indentured servitude in Philadelphia and given a second chance at a life far from the country ...

  • An Invincible Summer

    Wyndham Beach - 1

    An endearing novel of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart. It was a lifetime ago that recently widowed Maggie Flynn was in Wyndham Beach. Now, on the occasion of her fortieth high school ...

  • Goodbye Again

    Wyndham Beach - 2

    A woman strives to move beyond her devastating past in an uplifting novel filled with hope and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart. In the wake of her daughter’s unexplained suicide and her husband Jim’s sudden a...



  • All That We Are

    Wyndham Beach - 3

    A hopeful and emotional novel about twists of fate, enduring friendships, and life’s never-ending surprises by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart.In the decade since Emma Dean’s husband died, she’s maintained a peacefu...

  • The Head That Wears the Crown

    A fortysomething woman’s ordinary life takes a royal detour in an engaging novel about embracing a family legacy and stepping up when it matters most by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart.Annaliese—Annie—Gilberti is a ...

Award-Winning Books by Mariah Stewart

Moon Dance
1999 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mariah Stewart has published 51 books.

Mariah Stewart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Head That Wears the Crown, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Mariah Stewart, Moments in Time, was published in March 1995.

Yes. Mariah Stewart has 9 series.
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