Nancy Thayer

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1981
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Hot Flash Club

1 - The Hot Flash Club (Dec-2003)
2 - The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again (Dec-2004)
3 - Hot Flash Holidays (Nov-2005)
4 - The Hot Flash Club Chills Out (Jul-2006)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Three Women at the Water's Edge

    This classic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer deftly and movingly explores the ebb and flow of love, fulfillment, and change for a mother and her two grown daughters.   Margaret Wallace is a woman transformed. After thirty...

  • Bodies and Souls

    In this fast, steamy novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect New England town struggle to hide their shocking secrets . . . until they can no longer. From his position behind the pulpit, Rever...

  • Nell

    This beloved novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the uplifting story of a single mom seeking independence and struggling to find her way.   Nell St. John is not living the life she imagined for herself -- not by a long ...

  • Morning

    In this touching novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, a young woman’s search for fulfillment on Nantucket leads her to a mysterious manuscript and a life-changing friendship. When Sara marries Steve Kendall, she leaves Bos...

  • Spirit Lost

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the haunting story of a passionate marriage endangered by the restless spirit of a sea captain’s widow.   John and Wilhelmina Constable uproot their lives in Boston so John can pursue his li...

  • Everlasting

    BLOOMS... That was the name Catherine Eliot gave the business that became her passion--the East Side flower shop from which she aped wealth and prestige by tapping into New York's taste expensive and exotic. This is Catherine's story--of her passion...

  • Family Secrets

    A long ago love story threatens to change the lives of three generations of women in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer’s stunning novel   Though Diane Randall’s jewelry business is a great success, her marriage is not, and she f...

  • Belonging

    This spellbinding novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the fascinating story of a beautiful and successful woman who appears to have it all -- but gives it all up to find real happiness.   As the host of the successful t...

  • An Act of Love

    THEY USED TO BE A HAPPY FAMILY. THEN HER DAUGHTER ACCUSED HIS SON ...OF RAPE. Writers Owen and Linda McFarland have been incredibly happy for seven years. During that time they've worked hard to make his son Bruce and her daughter Emily part of a ...



  • Between Husbands and Friends

    Lucy met Kate when they were both young wives and mothers. In the years since, the two women and their husbands and children have become inseparable, spending every August together in a house on Nantucket. Lucy and Kate, each other's most trusted con...

  • Custody

    A secret in a woman’s past returns to change her life forever in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Ambitious, brilliant, and engaged to a wonderful guy, Kelly MacLeod feels like her dreams are coming true w...

  • The Hot Flash Club

    The Hot Flash Club - 1

    From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty “coming of age” novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, ali...

  • The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

    The Hot Flash Club - 2

    When Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia meet in a hot tub at the spa, the find a common thread of experience: toxic relatives. What's there to be done about undermining, meddling, scheming in-laws? These amazing women decide to fight fire with fire, and...

  • Hot Flash Holidays

    The Hot Flash Club - 3

    The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a he...

  • The Hot Flash Club Chills Out

    The Hot Flash Club - 4

    Since opening up their day spa, The Haven, the wonderful women of the Hot Flash Club have been busy indulging the beleaguered, nerve-frazzled throngs. Now, in Nancy Thayer’s hilarious new Hot Flash novel, it’s the friends’ turn to grab some soo...

  • Moon Shell Beach

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer delighted readers with her sparkling Hot Flash Club series. Now she has written a vibrant new novel set within a tight-knit island community, where two women struggle to rekindle a childhood friendship d...

  • Summer House

    Thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche, running an organic gardening business on the island of Nantucket, thanks in large part to her spry grandmother Nona, who donated a portion of land on the family's seaside co...

  • Beachcombers

    Beautifully written, powerfully felt, full of both abundant joy and heart-wrenching sorrow, Beachcombers is an extraordinary novel that centers on the bittersweet reunion of three captivating, very different sisters on Nantucket over one gorgeous, ex...

  • Heat Wave

    Lyrical, emotional, dramatic, and packed with Nancy Thayer’s trademark warmth and wisdom, Heat Wave tells the moving story of a woman who, after her seemingly perfect life unravels, must find the strength to live and love again. After her husba...



  • Summer Breeze

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer never fails to imbue her novels with warmth and wisdom. In Summer Breeze, the author of Beachcombers and Heat Wave tells the wonderfully moving story of three women who forge a unique bond one sun-drench...

  • Island Girls

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer returns to her beloved Nantucket in a highly emotional, wholly entertaining tale of three sisters forced to confront the past over one event-filled summer on the island. Charming ladies’ man Rory R...

  • A Nantucket Christmas

    Known for her heartwarming observations of family life, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer showcases her beloved Nantucket’s snowy off-season in this emotionally gratifying and utterly entertaining story. Holidays on this Massachuse...

  • Nantucket Sisters

    Friendship takes center stage in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer’s captivating, emotionally charged novel featuring all the tenderness and wit, drama and romance that readers have come to expect from this insightful, much-loved write...

  • An Island Christmas

    In this enchanting holiday novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, family and friends gather on Nantucket for a gorgeous winter wedding with plenty of merry surprises in store. As Christmas draws near, Felicia returns to her fa...

  • The Guest Cottage

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer whisks readers back to the beloved island of Nantucket in this delightful novel about two single parents who accidentally rent the same summer house -- and must soon decide where their hearts truly lie. ...

  • The Island House

    The charms of Nantucket tempt a woman to leave her established life in Kansas City -- but with a piece of her heart, and a love interest, in each world, she discovers she must look within to choose the right path. Every summer since college, twent...

  • Stay Here

    New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer evokes the shimmering seascape of Nantucket in a delightful novel that resonates with the heartache and hope of growing up, growing wise, and the bittersweet choices we must be brave enough to make.   ...

  • Secrets in Summer

    The queen of beach books (The Star-Ledger) returns to the shores of Nantucket, where an independent young librarian discovers her summer neighbors secrets and the secrets of her own heart....

  • A Nantucket Wedding

    Wedding bells are ringing -- and a widowed mother of two hopes the occasion will reunite her daughters in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her bel...



  • Surfside Sisters

    A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful sh...

  • Let It Snow

    A Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships . . . to warm the coldest of hearts -- and maybe even find love. Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, un...

  • Girls of Summer

    From star-crossed matches to unexpected love triangles, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time...

  • Family Reunion

    A longtime Nantucket resident is trying to make the best of a lonely summer. Her spirited granddaughter is learning what she wants out of life. Unforgettable surprises await them both in this magical, multigenerational novel from New York Times bests...

  • Summer Love

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this heartwarming novel of love and self-discovery by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.“The next generation discove...

  • All the Days of Summer

    A woman’s second act on the island of Nantucket delivers much more than she expected in this captivating novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.“A beautiful, hope-filled, heartwarming story about new beginnings and second chances...

  • The Summer We Started Over

    Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life’s challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.Eddie Grant is happy wit...

  • Summer Light on Nantucket

    A touching novel about first love, family bonds, and rekindled relationships from the New York Times bestselling author and beloved Nantucket storyteller Nancy Thayer....

  • My Dearest Friend

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    This luminescent novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer enthralls with a story of difficult choices, complicated loves, and hard-won triumphs.   At the age of forty-six, Daphne Miller is a first-time homeowner, a divorced colleg...

  • Stepping

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    With determination, love, and a strong sense of self, Zelda passes through each stage of a woman's life, establishes a career, marries, and becomes a mother to her husband's daughters...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Thayer has published 39 books.

The next book by Nancy Thayer, Summer Light on Nantucket, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Nancy Thayer, Three Women at the Water's Edge, was published in September 1981.

Yes. Nancy Thayer has 1 series.
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