13 Best Susan Elizabeth Phillips Books

On a lonely Colorado highway, Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard brakes for a furious woman in a bedraggled beaver costume. Taking runaway artist Blue Bailey along on his road trip leads them to a Tennessee farmhouse, an eccentric makeshift family, and a romance neither commitment phobe saw coming.

Down to her last dollars, widowed Rachel Stone limps back to Salvation, North Carolina, the town that despises her late televangelist husband. A job at grim widower Gabe Bonner's failing drive in gives her and her young son a precarious foothold and offers Gabe a second chance at faith and love.

Once the spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey comes home broke and humbled to the town she tormented. Her former teacher Colin Byrne, now a famous novelist and owner of her old house, wants revenge, but proximity forces them to confront old wounds and the possibility of forgiveness.

After her domineering father dies, flamboyant heiress Phoebe Somerville unexpectedly inherits the Chicago Stars football team with one brutal condition: win or lose it. To survive the season she must battle stubborn head coach Dan Calebow, the game she hates, and the risk of trusting love again.

Flighty socialite Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or enter an arranged marriage with grim circus manager Alex Markov. Dragged into a rough traveling show, she learns to care for neglected animals, confronts long buried family secrets, and falls for a man who believes he cannot love.

Determined to save her late grandmother's struggling matchmaking agency, quirky Annabelle Granger vows to land high powered sports agent Heath Champion as a client. As she parades Chicago's most polished women in front of him, their sparring turns playful and Annabelle begins to look like his most unlikely perfect match.

Brilliant physicist Jane Darlington wants a baby but fears passing on her isolating genius, so she targets seemingly dim Chicago Stars quarterback Cal Bonner as the perfect father. Her outrageous deception sparks a shotgun marriage, a custody battle, and a tender love between two stubborn opposites.

Children's book creator Molly Somerville has always secretly adored Chicago Stars quarterback Kevin Tucker, her sister's star player. One reckless night upends both their lives and sends them to a remote lakeside camp, where a fragile marriage of convenience slowly turns into the partnership they never planned.

Free spirited Meg Koranda arrives in Wynette, Texas to stand up in her best friend's wedding to golden boy Ted Beaudine, then realizes the match is all wrong. When the bride bolts, the furious town makes Meg their scapegoat, trapping her in dead end jobs and a slow burn battle of wills with the man she tried to save.

Buttoned up organizer Gracie Snow has one job: deliver legendary ex wide receiver Bobby Tom Denton home to Heaven, Texas for his first movie role. Instead she ends up remaking his chaotic life, challenging his playboy image, and discovering that a small town can change them both.

America's favorite self help guru Dr. Isabel Favor loses her money, fiancé, and reputation in one spectacular crash, then retreats to a crumbling farmhouse in the Tuscan hills. There she collides with movie villain Ren Gage, a jaded star hiding from his own life, and together they relearn how to trust and start over.

Rookie private investigator Piper Dove's first big assignment is to shadow retired Chicago Stars legend Cooper Graham and see if he is hiding anything from a potential investor. When Coop catches her, he hires his not so stealthy stalker to uncover sabotage at his nightclub, turning their wary partnership into something much more dangerous to their hearts.

Flat broke actress and puppeteer Annie Hewitt trudges through a Maine snowstorm to the bleak cottage she has inherited, only to find brooding novelist Theo Harp in the looming mansion up the hill. Years after she believed he tried to kill her, mysterious threats and an unwanted attraction make it hard to know whom to trust.