Elizabeth Harbison Books in Order
Explore Elizabeth Harbison books in order, from fairy-tale romances to Beth Harbison novels, with short summaries, series notes, and where to start.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
40 books
A Taste for Love
by Elizabeth Harbison
1996
Part cookbook and part mood-setter, this collection offers romantic menus for two, along with poetry, music suggestions, and table ideas. It is built around intimate meals that make date-night cooking feel fun rather than fussy.
Wife Without A Past
by Elizabeth Harbison
1997
Andrew Bennett is stunned when the wife he believed dead suddenly returns with no memory of him or their child. As Laura pieces together her identity, both must decide whether love can rebuild a broken family.
True Love Ranch
by Elizabeth Harbison
1998
Ten years after being forced away from the ranch and the man she loved, Darcy Beckett returns because of her grandfather's will. Joe Tyler is there, along with his young son, and the past is suddenly impossible to ignore.
Two Brothers And A Bride
by Elizabeth Harbison
1998
Waitress Joleen Wheeler thinks she is finally getting her Cinderella ending when a wealthy politician proposes. Then his rough-around-the-edges brother Jake makes her question everything she thought she wanted from love and marriage.
A Walk Down the Aisle
by Christina Skye
1999
A wedding-themed audio anthology pairing Elizabeth Harbison with Christina Skye. Harbison's story follows bride Fiona Barclay as an old love resurfaces and makes her question the safe life she thought she wanted.
Bread Machine Baker
by Elizabeth Harbison
1999
A practical bread machine cookbook built for home bakers who want reliable loaves without a lot of fuss. Harbison focuses on accessible recipes and straightforward guidance for making fresh bread part of everyday life.
Emma And The Earl
by Elizabeth Harbison
1999
Emma Lawrence never expects a British earl to notice her, much less sweep her into his world. But life on Brice Palliser's estate makes her wonder whether this unlikely romance could become her own fairy tale.
Plain Jane Marries The Boss
by Elizabeth Harbison
1999
Jane Miller has loved her boss for years, so his proposal feels like a dream, until she learns it is meant as a business arrangement. Jane agrees to the wedding anyway and hopes the honeymoon changes everything.
Annie and the Prince
by Elizabeth Harbison
2000
Rule-following librarian Annie Barimer heads to a faraway castle to tutor two little princesses and finds herself falling for Prince Johann. It is a fairy-tale setup, but Annie wants more than romance, she wants a future she can trust.
Four Seasons with the Bread Machine Baker
by Elizabeth Harbison
2001
This cookbook collects bread machine recipes arranged around the seasons, with ideas for everyday loaves and year-round baking. It is a practical follow-up for home bakers who want more variety from their machine.
His Secret Heir
by Elizabeth Harbison
2001
Years after a brief, life-changing romance with Nick Chapman, Megan Stewart is raising his son alone. When Nick reappears, now an earl, Megan must face old heartbreak and decide how to reveal the child he never knew.
Drive Me Wild
by Elizabeth Harbison
2002
Single mom Grace Bowes returns home broke and humbled, only to face Luke Stewart, the man she never quite forgot. Working near him means reopening old feelings and asking whether a second chance could be worth the risk.
Mission Creek Mother-To-Be
by Elizabeth Harbison
2002
Wealthy heiress Melanie Tourbier turns to a hospital sperm donor because she has given up on finding a man who loves her, not her money. Dr. Jared Cross objects, then finds himself drawn into her plans and her life.
Midnight Cravings
by Elizabeth Harbison
2003
During a rowdy chili cookoff in small-town Beldon, police chief Dan Duvall is thrown off balance by sharp, glamorous visitor Josephine Ross. As trouble breaks out around town, attraction grows between the wary lawman and the city outsider.
Princess Takes a Holiday
by Elizabeth Harbison
2003
Exhausted by royal life, Princess Teresa of Corsaria hides out in a North Carolina town as plain Tess McDougall. There she finds real warmth, a charming doctor, and a romance that cannot survive long without the truth.
The Secret Princess
by Elizabeth Harbison
2004
Bookshop owner Amy Scott learns she is really Princess Amelia of Lufthania and is swept into royal life by Crown Prince Wilhelm. Court duties, new identity, and growing feelings turn her fairy tale into a very real choice.
Diary of a Domestic Goddess
by Elizabeth Harbison
2005
Single mom and columnist Kit Macy loses her footing when her old-fashioned household magazine is taken over by a handsome new boss. Reinventing herself could save her career, but it may also tangle business with love.
How To Get Your Man
by Elizabeth Harbison
2005
Advertising executive Bonnie Vaness wants a safe, sensible man, not the handyman who once rocked her world and disappeared. But when Dalton Price returns and agrees to coach her in flirting, old chemistry turns into fresh trouble.
Taming of the Two
by Elizabeth Harbison
2005
Kate Gregory decides to fake a romance with childhood nemesis Ben Devere so her sister can finally marry. The plan promises revenge and convenience, but Ben's return turns old grudges into very real attraction.
A Dash of Romance
by Elizabeth Harbison
2006
A self-made billionaire and a spirited waitress collide in a close-quarters romance full of class differences, tabloid attention, and sparks. What begins as a recipe for disaster starts looking a lot more like love.
Falling for the Boss
by Elizabeth Harbison
2006
Meredith Waters never planned to work for Evan Hanson, the man who broke her heart years ago. Reunited at his family company, they must face their secret past while trying not to believe in second chances.
If the Slipper Fits
by Elizabeth Harbison
2006
Playboy Prince Conrad of Beloria is supposed to choose a proper escort for a charity ball in New York. Instead he falls for hotel concierge Lily Tilden, and suddenly duty and desire are on a collision course.
In Her Boss's Arms
by Elizabeth Harbison
2006
Laurel Midland takes a job as nanny to a grieving little girl and quickly clashes with the child's guarded father, Charles Gray. As Laurel brings warmth back to the house, both adults risk getting far more attached than planned.
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
by Elizabeth Harbison
2007
Four women with the same shoe size but very different lives start meeting to trade footwear and soon become one another's lifeline. Beneath the fashion fun, the novel digs into debt, control, loneliness, and female friendship.
Secrets of a Shoe Addict
by Elizabeth Harbison
2008
Three women with debts, secrets, and shaky pasts are pushed toward desperate choices when life starts closing in. Set in the same world as Shoe Addicts Anonymous, this follow-up blends friendship, scandal, and the dangerous cost of keeping up appearances.
Hope in a Jar
by Elizabeth Harbison
2009
A cruel rumor ended the friendship between Allie Denty and Olivia Pelham years ago. When the past pulls them back together, Harbison mixes beauty secrets, old wounds, and sharp humor into a story about friendship and forgiveness.
Thin, Rich, Pretty
by Elizabeth Harbison
2010
Twenty years after high school, three women who were once defined by looks, money, and size are still carrying old labels. A reunion with the past forces them to confront friendship, envy, and the stories they tell about themselves.
Always Something There to Remind Me
by Elizabeth Harbison
2011
When a marriage proposal stirs up memories of her first love, Erin Edwards is pulled back into feelings she never fully left behind. Moving between past and present, the novel asks what happens when old love refuses to stay buried.
When in Doubt, Add Butter
by Elizabeth Harbison
2012
Private chef Gemma Craig cooks for six very different clients and likes keeping romance off the menu. But the lives she observes, and one intriguing client she barely knows, force her to rethink love, risk, and what home might look like.
Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger
by Elizabeth Harbison
2013
Ten years after Quinn Barton fled her wedding with the best man instead of the groom, the fallout still shapes her life. Returning home means facing old choices, old love, and the question of whether she ran toward freedom or another mistake.
A Pregnant Proposal
by Elizabeth Harbison
2014
After her fiance dies, Jen Martin fears his wealthy father will try to take her baby. In desperation she considers naming her boss, Matt Holder, as both the father and her fiance, and the lie quickly gets complicated.
Driving with the Top Down
by Elizabeth Harbison
2014
Three women set out in a convertible for a two-week road trip, each carrying secrets, regrets, and unfinished business. As the miles roll by, their friendship deepens and their carefully managed lives begin to come apart.
A Girl Like Her
by Elizabeth Harbison
2015
This anthology pairs two Elizabeth Harbison romances: Bonnie tries to win the right man in How To Get Your Man, while single mom Kit fights for her career and her heart in Diary of a Domestic Goddess.
If I Could Turn Back Time
by Elizabeth Harbison
2015
Thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips gets the impossible chance to return to her teenage life, armed with everything she knows now. Changing the past sounds tempting, but revisiting old heartbreaks and family wounds proves far more complicated than she expected.
A Shoe Addict's Christmas
by Elizabeth Harbison
2016
Noelle works in human resources at a Washington department store and dreads Christmas almost as much as her stalled life. After a strange holiday night, she starts seeing how friends, choices, and one handsome coworker could change everything.
One Less Problem Without You
by Elizabeth Harbison
2016
Prinny, Chelsea, and Diana are very different women tied together by love, bad choices, and a little magic from Prinny's shop, Cosmos. As heartbreak and messy relationships pile up, each has to decide what she's willing to leave behind.
Every Time You Go Away
by Elizabeth Harbison
2018
Still shattered by her husband Ben's death, Willa returns to the family beach house in Ocean City to sell it. The trip forces her and her son to face grief, old memories, and the hard work of rejoining life.
Lost Chapter from Always Something There to Remind Me
by Elizabeth Harbison
2019
A short companion piece to Always Something There to Remind Me, this extra chapter returns to the novel's world for one more glimpse of its characters and their tangled feelings about love, memory, and second chances.
The Cookbook Club
by Elizabeth Harbison
2020
Three women at turning points in their lives meet through a cookbook club and find friendship, romance, and a few messy secrets. Food pulls them together, but honesty is what may finally change their lives.
Confessions of the Other Sister
by Elizabeth Harbison
2022
Frances Turner has spent years believing her glamorous sister Crosby gets all the breaks, while Crosby thinks Frances hides from life. When circumstances force them together, old jealousy, family hurts, and long-buried truths finally come to the surface.
Where should I start?
If you want the big breakout bestseller: Shoe Addicts Anonymous → Secrets of a Shoe Addict → A Shoe Addict's Christmas
If you like nostalgic, emotional women's fiction: Always Something There to Remind Me → If I Could Turn Back Time → Every Time You Go Away
If food-centered stories sound fun: When in Doubt, Add Butter → The Cookbook Club
If you want her classic fairy-tale romances: Emma And The Earl → Plain Jane Marries The Boss → Annie and the Prince → His Secret Heir
Author bio
Elizabeth Harbison grew up in Potomac, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. She later studied at Birkbeck College in London and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland. That mix of suburban East Coast life and time abroad shows up in her books, which often feel grounded in ordinary routines but are never far from a little fantasy, whether that means a prince, a beach house full of ghosts, or a second chance arriving at exactly the wrong moment.
She started writing young.
Harbison has said that one of her first stories was a rewritten ending to Black Beauty in which all the horses came back to life. That small detail tells you a lot about her sensibility. Even when her books deal with grief, jealousy, money trouble, or old heartbreak, there is usually wit in the mix, plus a sense that life can still surprise people who think they already know how their story ends.
Her first published work was nonfiction. Writing as Elizabeth Harbison, she produced cookbooks such as A Taste for Love and her bread machine books, then followed them with Loaves of Fun, a children's book about the history of bread, complete with recipes and activities. Food never really left her work. Later novels like When in Doubt, Add Butter and The Cookbook Club show how naturally she uses meals, kitchens, and shared recipes as a way into character and connection.
After that she moved into romance and wrote a long run of category novels for Silhouette. Those books gave her room to play with some of her favorite setups: ordinary women dropped into almost fairy-tale situations, guarded bosses, princes, cowboys, nannies, and people who fall in love while trying very hard not to. Those romances were translated into more than thirty languages, and you can see her getting sharper with dialogue and emotional timing from book to book.
Then the Beth Harbison name took off, and her women's fiction reached a much bigger audience.
Shoe Addicts Anonymous became her first New York Times bestseller, and books like Hope in a Jar, Thin, Rich, Pretty, and Always Something There to Remind Me kept building her readership. What readers tend to like is easy to spot. Harbison writes about female friendship, old secrets, family static, and the awkward pull of the past, but she does it in plain, funny language that makes even messy lives feel familiar. Her characters often carry old versions of themselves around for years, then discover they cannot really move on until they face them.
She also works well with slightly off-center premises. In If I Could Turn Back Time, a woman gets the impossible chance to revisit her younger life. In Every Time You Go Away, grief and a beach house haunt a family in a quieter, more emotional way. In Confessions of the Other Sister, sibling resentment becomes the engine for a sharp, funny family story. The setup changes, but the interest in complicated relationships stays the same.
Some of her work has stepped off the page too. A Shoe Addict's Christmas was adapted into a Hallmark holiday movie, which makes sense given how neatly her stories balance comfort, longing, and a little wish fulfillment. In recent years she has also added ghostwriting to her workload, mostly memoir projects, and she co-hosts the podcast Nameless Best Friends with her children, novelist Paige Harbison and musician Jack Harbison.
Across both names, Elizabeth Harbison keeps returning to the same idea: people are funny, flawed, and often a bit lost, but they are rarely beyond hope.
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