Susan Wiggs

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Susan Wiggs
  • Bibliography:
    75 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1987
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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About the Author

Susan Wiggs became a self-published author at the age of 8. That first work “A Book About Some Bad Kids” sold out – there was only one copy. She temporarily gave up her ambition to be a writer and instead became a Harvard graduate and math teacher. It was late one night, when she found herself without anything to read, that she first began writing a novel. She continued to write and learn her craft. Her first book, “Texas Wildflower”, was published in 1987. She has written many historical and contemporary romances with a wide range of settings and time periods. Several of her novels are connected.

Susan lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

Full Series List in Order

Bella Vista Chronicles

1 - The Apple Orchard (May-2013)
2 - The Beekeeper's Ball (Jun-2014)
3 - The Lost and Found Bookshop (Jul-2020)
4 - Sugar and Salt (Aug-2022)

Calhoun Chronicles

1 - The Charm School (May-1999)
2 - The Horsemaster's Daughter (Nov-1999)
3 - Halfway to Heaven (Oct-2001)
4 - Enchanted Afternoon (Sep-2002)
5 - A Summer Affair (Aug-2003)

Chicago Fire

1 - The Hostage (Apr-2000)
2 - The Mistress (Oct-2000)
3 - The Firebrand (Apr-2001)

Discovery

1 - October Wind (Oct-1991)
2 - Jewel of the Sea (Apr-1993)
3 - Kingdom of Gold (Jun-1994)

The Lakeshore Chronicles

1 - Summer At Willow Lake (Aug-2006)
1.5 - Homecoming Season (Oct-2006)
2 - The Winter Lodge (Feb-2007)
3 - Dockside (Jun-2007)
4 - Snowfall At Willow Lake (Feb-2008)
5 - Fireside (Feb-2009)
6 - Lakeshore Christmas (Oct-2009)
7 - The Summer Hideaway (Feb-2010)
8 - Marrying Daisy Bellamy (Jan-2011)
9 - Return to Willow Lake (Sep-2012)
10 - Candlelight Christmas (Nov-2013)
11 - Starlight on Willow Lake (Aug-2015)

Tudor Rose

1 - Circle in the Water // At the King's Command (Sep-1994)
2 - Vows Made in Wine // The Maiden's Hand (Jul-1995)
3 - Dancing on Air // At the Queen's Summons (Jan-1996)
3 - At the Queen's Summons (Jun-2012)

Us

0.5 - The Story of Us (Apr-2010)
1 - The Ocean Between Us (Apr-2004)

Women of War

1 - The Mistress of Normandy (Aug-2014)
2 - The Maiden of Ireland (Sep-2014)

Book List in Order: 75 titles

  • Texas Wildflower

    Zebra Heartfire

    WOMANIZING OUTLAW Even though all her classmates were chasing husbands, all green-eyed Shiloh Mulvane ever wanted to pursue was a career as the most successful frontier detective in the whole lawless territory. The determined beauty got her first ...

  • Briar Rose

    The Avon Romance

    DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...

  • Embrace the Day

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    FRONTIER BRIDE Filled with dreams of a better life, seventeen-year-old Genevieve Elliot made the perilous journey across the ocean to colonial Virginia. There, the British beauty fell passionately in love with handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair. T...

  • Winds of Glory

    The Avon Romance

    INNOCENCE BETRAYED She was born to wealth and privilege in colonial Newport. He was the handsome stable manager at her family estate, her friend and confidant since childhood. But Bethany Winslow had grown into an exciting beauty, naive enough to ...

  • Moonshadow

    The Avon Romance

    PASSION'S SURRENDER Brash, beautiful Jessica Darling preferred to forget what she'd done to survive her destitute childhood. Now, her shameful past safely behind her, she found contentment as the governess of two motherless children -- until their...

  • The Canary Who Sailed with Columbus

  • The Lily and the Leopard

    THE LILY France in 1414 was a country at war, overrun within by marauding knights and besieged from without by an ambitious English king. THE LEOPARD England in 1414 was ruled by King Henry V, a driven monarch who was determined to regain his Fr...

  • October Wind

    Discovery - 1

    A sweeping, unforgettable story of romance, intrigue -- and the greatest voyage ever made. THE DREAMER He believed he could reach the fabulous Indies by sailing West. She ruled a kingdom -- but he offered her a new world. THE QUEEN His guilty...

  • The Raven and the Rose

    THE LAST THING HE EXPECTED WAS TO LOVE HER THE RAVEN Daniel Severin--A ruthless mercenary with a heart of stone, he has been sent to the Hospice of Saint Bernard's, high up in the Swiss Alps, with a deadly mission. THE ROSE Lorelei du Clerc--...



  • The Mist and the Magic

    THE MIST Caitlin MacBride, mistress of the beleaguered Irish stronghold Clonmuir, made a wish one evening at sunset. "Send me my true love," she whispered. THE MAGIC As she watched, a man walked out of the mist that rolled in off the water. In ...

  • Jewel of the Sea

    Discovery - 2

    A generation after Columbus made his great discovery, the tired old World is striving to conquer the new lands in the West, seeking gold and riches beyond their wildest dreams. From Spain to England to the Caribbean, follow the fortunes of Armando...

  • Lord of the Night

    TRAGEDY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER--HONOR KEPT THEM APART When a crime was committed in tumultuous sixteenth-century Venice, Sandro Cavalli, Lord of the Night, could be counted upon to bring the malefactors to justice. Strong and rough-hewn as a noble...

  • Kingdom of Gold

    Discovery - 3

    New World Riches -- Old World Greed Less than a century after Columbus made his great discovery, Spain rules the seas. Tiny England, under her indomitable queen, seeks to challenge that mastery. Daredevil pirates like Sir Francis Drake and Evan ...

  • Circle in the Water // At the King's Command

    Tudor Rose - 1

    A POWERFUL KING FORCED THEM TOGETHER Never one to forget a slight, King Henry VIII sought revenge again, Stephen de Lacey, the handsome and defiant Baron of Wimberleigh. When a gypsy horse thief interrupted the king's hunt, Henry saw a way to ...

  • The Trysting Hour

    in Irish Magic

    Welcome to an enchanted world of mist and legend ... of age-old dreams and ageless desires . . . where trees have souls, and swords and stones can speak .. . In ancient Tara, the betrothed Princess Aideen awakens from a fevered vision ... only to ...

  • Vows Made in Wine // The Maiden's Hand

    Tudor Rose - 2

    A RECKLESS MAN Oliver de Lacey had no time for love. He pursued pleasure with relentless fervor. Then one day, he met a woman who changed his wild ways. AN INNOCENT WOMAN Mistress Lark had no need for passion. All her devotion went into a secret...

  • Belling the Cat

    in Purrfect Romance

    He loves without question. He is strong and silent, tender yet tough. He's all any woman would ever want. In a cat, that is. Now three bestselling authors are brought together in this wonderful collection of historical romances filled with fiery pass...

  • Dancing on Air // At the Queen's Summons

    Tudor Rose - 3

    NOTHING TO LOSE Pippa invented a past for herself, because anything was better than facing the truth. But when her antics led her into serious trouble, she had to throw herself at the mercy of a powerful Irish chieftain. EVERYTHING TO GAIN Aidan...

  • The Borrowed Bride

    in This Time...Marriage

    In the midst of her own bridal shower, Isabel is spirited away by one-time love Dan Black Horse to his retreat, and her Native roots, high in the Olympic range....



  • Miranda

    WHO WAS SHE? In Regency London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Although the locket around her neck says her name is Miranda, she has absolutely no recollection of her past. Nor does ...

  • Cinderfella

    in Merry Christmas, Baby!

    What the kids want for Christmas: The teenagers at the Santiago Center in Brooklyn want their shelter to stay open. Jack Riley, ace reporter and big-hearted Texan, volunteers at the center. His boss, Madeleine Langston, can grant the kids' wish...

  • The Changeling

    in Irish Magic II

    Welcome to a world of changelings and enchanted springs, where fairies ride through moonlit nights and music has immortal power...A world of sorcery and spells where even the most forbidden and impossible love can become breathtaking reality... In...

  • The Lightkeeper

    Once, the sea took everything he loved... Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from e...

  • The Drifter

    He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price.... COMES A DRIFTER TO A WINDSWEPT ISLAND...

  • Island Time

    in That Summer Place

    Rainshadow Lodge may be on a secluded island with blue skies and crystal waters, but surely that isn't enough to make three mismatched couples jump over their differences and into each other's arms. After all, what could a socialite and a handyman ha...

  • Bridge of Dreams

    in In Our Dreams

    Heartthrobs, Hunks, and Heroes... They make your heart race and inspire your most secret fantasies. They're your favorite heroes from movies and television, and they're about to make your dreams come true. Ten of today's top romance authors create w...

  • The Charm School

    Calhoun Chronicles - 1

    Let award-winning author Susan Wiggs sweep you away to romance and adventure when a Boston socialite and a swashbuckling sea captain dare to love... Isadora Peabody is an awkward misfit in her beautiful and accomplished family. Shunned by those sh...

  • Husband for Hire // The 10-Year Reunion

    Bachelor Auction (Mills & Boon) - 1
    Heart of the West - 1

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • The Horsemaster's Daughter

    Calhoun Chronicles - 2

    She had the power to heal...but would that be enough? A wild horse, a broken man, a family in ruins and a woman with the power to heal.... Once a privileged son of the South, Hunter Calhoun is now a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife's...



  • The Hostage

    Chicago Fire - 1

    October 8, 1871--One small spark ignites re city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a chance encounter leads to an unexpected new love. Unaware of the fire sweeping toward them, Deborah Sinclair confronts her wealthy...

  • The Mistress

    Chicago Fire - 2

    October 8, 1871 - One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a case of mistaken identity leads to an unexpected new love. As the historic fire ignites across town, Kathleen O'Leary fin...

  • The You I Never Knew

    For every woman who has ever loved…and never forgotten. At last, Michelle Turner is going back to the Montana town where she grew up too fast, fell in love too hard, and wound up pregnant and alone. Because the now-successful advertising executi...

  • The Firebrand

    Chicago Fire - 3

    October 8, 1871 -- One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a miraculous rescue kindles an unexpected new love. As she flees the raging inferno, Lucy Hathaway risks her life to save ...

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Calhoun Chronicles - 3

    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 educat...

  • Passing Through Paradise

    Less than two years ago Sandra was the happily married wife of Victor Winslow, the favorite son of a town called Paradise, a politician who could do no wrong. Then an accident took Victor's life, leaving Sandra under a dark cloud of suspicion. Now...

  • Enchanted Afternoon

    Calhoun Chronicles - 4

    Beautiful, charming, and respected as the wife of an ambitious senator, Helena Cabot Barnes is the leading lady of Saratoga Springs. But beneath the facade lies a terrible deception. Helena married for all the wrong reasons -- and discovered too late...

  • Home Before Dark

    In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daugh...

  • A Summer Affair

    Calhoun Chronicles - 5

    A beautiful new novel about desire, healing and the most powerful medicine of all -- love A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after a...

  • The St. James Affair

    in It Happened One Christmas

    'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the city Not a single woman was stirring except... Manhattan blue blood Eve St. James. Could she forgo the air-kissing society scene for real love...with a Brooklyn cop? Up-and-coming caterer...



  • The Ocean Between Us

    Us - 1

    On the surface Grace Bennett has it all -- three wonderful children, a devoted husband and a life of adventure and travel. But somewhere between her husband Steve's demanding career, raising a family, the constant uprooting and the Navy's routine, Gr...

  • Summer by the Sea

    It's the beginning of another season in the seaside resort town of Winslow, Rhode Island, and Rosa Capoletti is given the chance to rediscover the pleasures of love and laughter, food and wine, friendship and romance... With a little determination...

  • Table For Five

    A gifted teacher, Lily Robinson adores her students, but fiercely guards her independent lifestyle. Deep inside, she is afraid of loving too deeply for fear of getting hurt. Only her best friend, Crystal, has ever been able to get close. Now an unthi...

  • Lakeside Cottage

    If you trust your heart, you'll always know who you are.... Each summer, Kate Livingston returns to her family's lakeside cottage, a place of simple living and happy times - a place where she now hopes her shy little boy can blossom. But her quiet...

  • Summer At Willow Lake

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 1

    Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colongy for her grandparents, who want one last summer together f...

  • Homecoming Season

    in More Than Words Volume 3
    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 1.5

    Five bestselling authors Five real-life heroines They're your neighbors, your aunts, your sisters and your best friends. They're women across North America committed to reaching out and changing lives, one good deed at a time. Five of these except...

  • The Winter Lodge

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 2

    Discover the magic and mystery of love as Susan Wiggs sweeps you away to the sparkling splendor of the Catskills, where old secrets are revealed and romance blooms, even on the coldest days of winter... On the longest night of the year, Jenny Maje...

  • Dockside

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 3

    LONG, LAZY DAYS... HOT SUMMER NIGHTS With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she ...

  • Snowfall At Willow Lake

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 4

    Can a single moment change your entire life? International lawyer Sophie Bellamy has dedicated her life to helping people in war-torn countries. But when she survives a hostage situation, she remembers what matters most--the children she loves bac...

  • Just Breathe

    Unexpected change can be like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.... Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon hero...



  • Fireside

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 5

    A TOUCHING TALE OF CHANGING DREAMS AND FINDING LOVE WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT IT Baseball hopeful Bo Crutcher is about to get his shot at the majors. That is, until life throws him a curveball. When AJ, the son he's never met, lands on his doorstep, ...

  • Because I Love Her

    This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly being questioned and redefined. Because I Love Her explores the deepest bonds and truths o...

  • Lakeshore Christmas

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 6

    Maureen Davenport lives for Christmas -- and there's nothing more magical than Christmas on Willow Lake. The prim librarian is finally getting her chance to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant, and she's determined to make it truly spectacular....

  • The Summer Hideaway

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 7

    A touching tale of secrets and sacrifice, loss and redemption...and a love too powerful to be denied. Never get attached -- Private nurse and protected witness Claire Turner lives by this motto. Fleeing a treacherous past, she knows no other way. ...

  • The Story of Us

    Us - 0.5

    Before The Ocean Between Us, it was just us… Revisit the heartwarming prequel to bestselling author Susan Wiggs’s beloved novel, The Ocean Between Us!THE STORY OF USAs a good girl waiting for her chance to be bad, Grace McAllen felt lost and disc...

  • How I Planned Your Wedding

    Bestselling author Susan Wiggs literally wrote the book on happily-ever-after love. But orchestrating her daughter Elizabeth's real-world wedding turned into a different story altogether, and one that takes two to tell -- the mother and the bride. ...

  • Marrying Daisy Bellamy

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 8

    New York Times bestselling author SUSAN WIGGS returns to Willow Lake for the long-awaited story of a woman at the crossroads of love... There are days on Willow Lake... Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two men -- one honorable...

  • The Goodbye Quilt

    Linda Davis's local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: quilts commemorating important events in their lives. Wedding quilts, baby quilts, memorial quilts -- each is bound tight with dreams, hopes and yearnings. Now...

  • At the Queen's Summons

    Tudor Rose - 3

    HER PATRON - HIS PASSION 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 provi...

  • Return to Willow Lake

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 9

    Sonnet Romano’s life is almost perfect. She has the ideal career, the ideal boyfriend, and has just been offered a prestigious fellowship. There’s nothing more a woman wants -- except maybe a baby…sister? When Sonnet finds out her mother is une...

  • The Apple Orchard

    Bella Vista Chronicles - 1

    "Sometimes you stumble across a treasure when you're looking for something else entirely." #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers to the lush abundance of Sonoma County in a novel of sisters, friendship and how memories ar...

  • Candlelight Christmas

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 10

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUSAN WIGGS INVITES YOU TO AN UNFORGETTABLE CHRISTMAS IN THE CATSKILLS A single father who yearns to be a family man, Logan O'Donnell is determined to create the perfect Christmas for his son, Charlie. The enti...

  • The Beekeeper's Ball

    Bella Vista Chronicles - 2

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest...and family secrets that have long been buried. Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sono...

  • The Mistress of Normandy

    Women of War - 1

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs transports readers to the lush French countryside of Normandy in a tale of love, family honor and true knights in shining armor… Rand Fitzmarc has fought his way to prominence under the banner of...

  • The Maiden of Ireland

    Women of War - 2

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps readers away to the misty coast of Ireland in an irresistible tale of falling in love with the enemy… John Wesley Hawkins was condemned to hang, accused of treason and heresy. As he's tran...

  • A Fairytale Christmas

    What the kids want for Christmas: The teenagers at the Santiago Center in Brooklyn want their shelter to stay open. Jack Riley, ace reporter and big-hearted Texan, volunteers at the center. His boss, Madeleine Langston, can grant the kids’ wi...

  • Starlight on Willow Lake

    The Lakeshore Chronicles - 11

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps readers away to a sun-drenched summer on the shores of Willow Lake in a stunning tale of the delicate ties that bind a family together…and the secrets that tear them apart When caregiver F...

  • Family Tree

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past -- and the promise of the future Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining wi...

  • Map of the Heart

    Love and family. War and secrets. Betrayal and redemption. #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a deeply emotional and atmospheric story that spans oceans and decades, from the present-day Delaware shore to the battlefiel...

  • Between You and Me

    Deep within the peaceful heart of Amish country, a life-or-death emergency shatters a quiet world to its core. Number-one New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs delivers a riveting story that challenges our deepest-held beliefs. Caught betw...

  • The Oysterville Sewing Circle

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet -- a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time -- domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into O...

  • The Lost and Found Bookshop

    Bella Vista Chronicles - 3

    There is a book for everything . . . Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits ...

  • Sugar and Salt

    Bella Vista Chronicles - 4

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost and Found Bookstore returns to Perdita Street with a can’t-miss tale of friendship, hardship, redemption, and love between a San Francisco baker and a barbecue master from Texas. Jerome “Sugar...

  • Welcome to Beach Town

    Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its cor...

  • The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

    "Don't miss this charming Christmas tale of thawing hearts, escaping dogs, and finding home. I couldn't help digging into this book with both paws." --Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Must Love FlowersThe ultimate holiday...

  • Wayward Girls

    "After decades of bestsellers, Wayward Girls might be Susan Wiggs' opus. A gut-wrenching story of survival, friendship, and justice. Masterful."--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell"The magnificent S...

Award-Winning Books by Susan Wiggs

The Hostage
2000 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Historical Single Title Romance
Lakeside Cottage
2006 Rita Award -- Contemporary Single Title
Lord of the Night
1994 Rita Award -- Best Romance
The Mist and the Magic
1994 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- British Isles Historical Romance
The Mistress
2000 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- American Historical Romance
2001 Rita Award -- Short Historical Romance
October Wind
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Novel


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Susan Wiggs has published 75 books.

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The first book by Susan Wiggs, Texas Wildflower, was published in April 1987.

Yes. Susan Wiggs has 8 series.
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