Ann Hazelwood Books in Order
Browse Ann Hazelwood's quilting novels in order, with book lists, quick summaries, series background for each setting, and friendly suggestions on the best places to start reading.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
23 books
The Basement Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2012
Florist Anne Brown decides to learn quilting to help her aunt, only to discover an old quilt and odd disturbances in her mother's basement. As she digs into family history, everyday dramas in Colebridge mingle with hints of haunting and the possibility of a new kind of love.
The Funeral Parlor Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2013
When Anne Brown's quilting circle becomes involved with a local funeral home, they are surprised by the many ways quilts can comfort mourners and honor the dead. The experience prompts them to reflect on loss, legacy, and the meanings stitched into the fabrics they handle every day.
The Potting Shed Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2013
Wedding plans lead Anne Brown and her fiancé Sam into the hunt for a new home, where they discover a quilt hidden in an old potting shed. The secret it carries draws them into another family's history and reminds Anne that every stitch in Colebridge connects to someone's story.
The Ghostly Quilts on Main
by Ann Hazelwood
2014
Trying to help struggling businesses on Main Street, Anne Brown Dickson organizes a seasonal quilt display that seems to attract a few ghostly helpers. Shop politics, grandmother's risky plans, and big changes for her best friend Nancy keep Anne busy as quilts and spirits stir up the town.
The Jane Austen Quilt Club
by Ann Hazelwood
2014
Anne Brown and her quilting friends embark on an ambitious group project, creating a Jane Austen inspired quilt in which each block reflects a member's life. When an entirely different quilt appears at the show instead, they must unravel the mix up while handling family and work upheavals back home.
A Colebridge Quilted Christmas
by Ann Hazelwood
2015
Christmas in Colebridge brings Mistletoe Market crowds, a depot quilt show, and the quiet work of neighbors caring for one another. As Anne and her friends navigate losses and celebrations, they come to see how the separate layers of their lives, like the quilts they love, form one shared community.
Quilted Lilies
by Ann Hazelwood
2015
In Colebridge, florist Anne Brown Dickson faces a serious personal challenge just as a long anticipated project on the family property finally takes shape. Grandmother Davis's lily patterned wholecloth quilt offers comfort, but giving it to its rightful owner means accepting changes in her home, business, and marriage.
Josephine's Guest House Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2016
Encouraged by friends, Kate Meyr transforms her inherited East Perry County home into a much needed guesthouse named for Josephine, the doctor's wife who once lived there. A hall quilt signed by visitors seems like a charming touch until some names begin to fade, hinting that Josephine's story is not finished.
Quilt the Town Christmas
by Ann Hazelwood
2016
With Thanksgiving and Christmas approaching, innkeeper Kate Meyr plans to blanket Borna in holiday quilts and decorations. A house full of relatives, neighbors making hard choices, and a string of unsettling incidents on the property force her to balance community cheer with the need to protect her home and heart.
The Forgiving Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2016
Reeling from her husband's death and the painful secrets it reveals, Kate Meyr travels to Borna, Missouri to repair and sell the run down property he left her. A mysterious quilt and an escalating pattern of threats make her wonder whether to cut her losses or claim this strange house as her own.
Church Ladies' Quilts
by Ann Hazelwood
2017
Joining the Concordia Lutheran church quilting group should give Kate Meyr peaceful hours with fabric and conversation, but a missing quilt quickly stirs up trouble. As the pastor tries to keep the scandal quiet, Kate's friendship with Clark shifts, a new romance appears, and her research into Josephine's past takes a tender turn.
Everlasting Quilts
by Ann Hazelwood
2017
Kate Meyr, now running Josephine's Guest House, finds her quiet East Perry County routine disrupted by neighbor John Baker's research on quilt stories and by a frightening attack close to home. Discovering where cherished quilts have traveled helps her face danger, protect her inn, and decide whom to let into her life.
For the Love of Quilts
by Ann Hazelwood
2018
After walking away from a stable but stifling editing job, Lily Rosenthal retreats to Missouri's wine country with her beloved antique quilts. Inheriting a murdered friend's shop inventory forces her to choose between a safe life and the risky dream of opening a quilt filled antique store.
Lily Girl's Christmas Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2018
Christmas has always been Lily Rosenthal's favorite time of year, and a family gathering in Green Bay brings both nostalgia and an unforgettable gift. While she wrestles with a challenging sampler quilt and yearns for a special Christmas quilt she cannot have, an unexpected present from Alex nudges her writing life forward.
A Christmas Wish Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2019
In A Christmas Wish Quilt, Lily Rosenthal starts the season with a Thanksgiving pie party and a bustling Christmas Walk through Augusta. A Santa who grants wishes, a newly found half sister, and questions about the spirit lingering on her property all end up stitched into one meaningful holiday quilt.
Quilted Secrets
by Ann Hazelwood
2019
In Missouri wine country, Lily Rosenthal discovers that everyone around her is holding something back, from quilt class friends to relatives she thought she knew. A ghostly doctor tied to her house and the arrival of an estranged cousin force Lily to confront which secrets she can live with.
Quilters of the Door
by Ann Hazelwood
2020
At fifty five, quilt artist Claire Stewart leaves Missouri for Door County, Wisconsin and joins a small, selective quilting club. The lakeshore landscape, new friendships, and a mysterious man in a red scarf slowly help her recover from a painful past and imagine a different future.
The Quilt Left Behind
by Ann Hazelwood
2020
When Lily Rosenthal agrees to safeguard a group of high value quilts for a friend, one disappears despite her precautions. As her Dinner Detectives circle tries to solve the theft, missing fabric, changing relationships, and long deferred dreams push Lily to rethink what she really wants.
Door to Door Quilts
by Ann Hazelwood
2021
Now happily settled in Fish Creek, quilt artist Claire Stewart dreams up a town wide quilt tour that requires official approval and a lot of persuasion. Working with her friend Cher, she pushes a traditional community to try something new while juggling an old flame and a man in a red scarf.
The Tannenbaum Christmas Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
2021
Claire Stewart's holidays in Door County are upended when she must finally face her injured former lover Austen Page. A new German neighbor arrives with an heirloom Tannenbaum quilt, drawing Claire into unfamiliar Christmas traditions just as her own love life grows complicated again.
Christmas Surprises at the Door
by Ann Hazelwood
2022
As autumn blends into Christmas in Door County, Claire enjoys quiet time with Grayson and festive apple picking trips with the Quilters of the Door. New visitors from Missouri and a string of unexpected events turn the season into a series of gentle but life changing surprises.
Quilted Cherries
by Ann Hazelwood
2022
Claire Stewart and her friend Cher organize a cherry themed outdoor quilt show in Door County, only to watch one complication after another pile up. With a new artist pursuing her and doubts about Grayson, she has to save the event and sort out her heart.
Christmas, She Wrote
by Ann Hazelwood
2023
In Christmas, She Wrote, Ann Hazelwood gathers more than fifty short pieces that celebrate her favorite season. Short stories, poems, recipes, and little sketches of romance, friendship, and quilting make this an easy book to dip into whenever you want a quick dose of holiday warmth.
Where should I start?
If you want to begin with her first quilt novels: The Basement Quilt → The Potting Shed Quilt → The Funeral Parlor Quilt
If you like lakeside small towns and art: Quilters of the Door → Door to Door Quilts → The Tannenbaum Christmas Quilt
If wine country cozies appeal to you: For the Love of Quilts → Lily Girl's Christmas Quilt → Quilted Secrets
If you prefer a reflective, slightly spooky story arc: The Forgiving Quilt → Josephine's Guest House Quilt → Quilt the Town Christmas
Author bio
Ann Hazelwood grew up in and around St. Charles, Missouri, where quilts, old buildings, and local history were part of everyday life. Long before she published quilt fiction, she was the person people called when they had a story to tell or a textile they did not quite understand.
In her early adult years she turned that fascination into a career by opening Patches, a quilt shop on historic Main Street in St. Charles. Over time it grew into multiple storefronts, including a button shop and a craft center, and for roughly three decades she spent her days helping customers choose fabrics, troubleshoot projects, and feel confident enough to try something new.
Running a busy shop gave Hazelwood a front row seat to the way quilts carry family memories, mark big occasions, and bring strangers together over a cutting table.
Alongside the shop work she began to write. First came short, practical books for quilt makers and quilt owners, such as 100 Things You Need to Know If You Own a Quilt, 100 Tips from Award-Winning Quilters, and 100 Sweet Treats by and for Quilters. Then she widened her focus to Missouri itself, publishing travel and food guides that spotlight small towns, historic sites, and out of the way eateries across the state.
Her expertise with fabric led her into the wider quilt world as well. Hazelwood is an AQS Certified Quilt Appraiser and has served as president of the board of the National Quilt Museum. She has exhibited her red and white quilt collection, given trunk shows and lectures, and even worked as the textile appraiser when Antiques Roadshow visits the St. Louis region.
Storytelling never stayed confined to lectures and nonfiction. In 2004 she gathered a circle of writers into the Wee Writers group in St. Charles, a casual workshop that kept her own creative muscles limber while she encouraged others to keep going. That steady practice helped nudge her toward a new challenge, one that combined everything she loved about quilts, people, and place.
In 2012 Hazelwood released her first novel, The Basement Quilt, set in the fictional town of Colebridge, Missouri. The Colebridge Community series grew to seven books and introduced readers to Anne Brown, a florist whose family stories and quilt projects echo the kinds of conversations Hazelwood heard in her shop. From there she created three more connected series, East Perry County, Wine Country Quilts, and Door County Quilts, each anchored by a woman finding her footing in a tight knit community.
Her fiction leans toward cozy mystery and gentle women's fiction. Quilts may hide secrets or spark investigations, but the real focus is on friendship, family, second chances, and the small moments that make a town feel like home. Readers who follow her across series often recognize echoes of Missouri history, shop talk from the quilting world, and the rhythms of real small town life.
Today Hazelwood still lives in St. Charles with her husband and a blended family of sons and stepsons. She writes at a steady pace, travels, and returns often to her favorite themes: red and white quilts, river towns, and the way Christmas can bring out both joy and longing.
Whether she is appraising an heirloom quilt or drafting a new chapter, her work stays rooted in the same impulse that first drew people into her shop, the pleasure of hearing someone's story and helping them preserve it.
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