Below is the complete list of Susan Mallery books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Fool’s Gold Books
Publication Order of Fool’s Gold Short Stories Books
Publication Order of Fool’s Gold Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Bakery Sisters Books
Publication Order of Beth Davis Books
Publication Order of Blackberry Island Books
Publication Order of Brides Of Bradley House Books
Publication Order of Buchanans Books
Publication Order of Desert Rogues Books
Publication Order of Happily Inc. Books
Publication Order of Hometown Heartbreakers Books
Publication Order of Logan’s Legacy Books
- Lily’s Expecting / Forever, Finally (2004)
Lily’s Expecting / Forever, Finally is a 2004 release and appears as book #3 in the Logan’s Legacy series.
Publication Order of Lone Star Canyon Books
Publication Order of Lone Star Sisters Books
Publication Order of Wishing Tree Books
Publication Order of Los Lobos Books
Publication Order of Malcolm, Callie & Keira Books
Publication Order of Marcelli Books
Publication Order of Merlyn County Midwives Books
Publication Order of The Million Dollar Catch Books
Publication Order of Millionaire of the Month Books
Publication Order of Mischief Bay Books
Publication Order of Montana Mavericks: Christmas in Whitehorn Books
Publication Order of Montana Mavericks: Return To Whitehorn Books
Publication Order of Positively Pregnant Books
Publication Order of Prescription: Marriage Books
Publication Order of Royally Wed Books
Publication Order of Tempting Faith Books
Publication Order of Triple Trouble Books
Publication Order of World’s Most Eligible Bachelors Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of 36 Hours Books
Publication Order of Safe Haven Books
Publication Order of That’s My Baby! Books
Publication Order of Men at Work Books
Publication Order of Man of the Month Books
Publication Order of Montana Mavericks Books
Publication Order of Family Business Books
About Susan Mallery
Susan Mallery is an American author best known for contemporary romance and women’s fiction centered on family, friendship, community, second chances, and the complicated emotional work of building a happy life. A #1 New York Times bestselling writer, she has published a large and varied bibliography that includes category romances, small-town series, family dramas, holiday stories, and standalones about women at turning points. Her books are warm and accessible, but their strongest appeal comes from how seriously they treat everyday emotional stakes: loneliness, forgiveness, career pressure, divorce, grief, sisterhood, motherhood, and the need to belong.
Mallery’s early career was rooted in romance, where she developed the clean pacing, strong hooks, and reader-focused storytelling that would remain central to her later work. Many of those books were written within established romance lines and connected series, including Hometown Heartbreakers, Desert Rogues, the Marcelli family books, the Buchanans, the Bakery Sisters, and Lone Star Sisters. These early and middle-period series often revolve around families, close-knit settings, and couples whose romantic conflicts are tied to larger questions of identity, loyalty, and trust.
Her most famous romance setting is Fool’s Gold, a fictional California town that became one of her signature creations. The Fool’s Gold books are built around community continuity: recurring families, local businesses, town festivals, friendships, gossip, weddings, and characters who often move from the background of one book into the center of another. The series works because the town itself feels like part of the emotional promise. Readers return not only for a new couple, but for the pleasure of seeing familiar places and social circles expand.
Mallery later extended that small-town romantic energy through Happily Inc, a spin-off setting connected to Fool’s Gold but built around its own identity. Happily Inc is a wedding-destination town, which gives the series a built-in atmosphere of romance, performance, family expectation, and public celebration. The Wishing Tree books use a Christmas-focused setting in a similar way, leaning into holiday warmth, nostalgia, and the idea that emotional repair can happen inside traditions people choose to keep or reinvent.
Alongside her romance series, Mallery developed a major body of women’s fiction. Books such as the Blackberry Island novels, the Mischief Bay books, Daughters of the Bride, The Summer of Sunshine and Margot, The Friendship List, The Vineyard at Painted Moon, The Summer Getaway, The Sister Effect, The Summer Book Club, and Beach Vibes show her interest in relationships beyond the central love story. These novels often focus on sisters, friends, mothers and daughters, blended families, and women facing the consequences of past decisions. Romance may still matter, but friendship and self-reinvention become equally important.
Her style is polished, direct, and emotionally generous. Mallery rarely writes with heavy cynicism; instead, she trusts the appeal of characters trying to become kinder, braver, more honest versions of themselves. Conflict in her fiction often comes from miscommunication, old wounds, family patterns, pride, fear of vulnerability, or the difficulty of accepting help. She writes communities as places of comfort, but also as places where secrets surface and people must decide whether they are willing to be known.
Susan Mallery’s bibliography is best understood through its sense of connection. Whether she is writing a long romance series, a holiday town, or a standalone about women rebuilding their lives, her central subject is relationship: the families people inherit, the friendships they choose, the love they risk, and the communities that give ordinary happiness its shape.





























































































































































































