Foster Saga Books in Order
Part ofJudith McNaught Books in OrderSee the Foster Saga by Judith McNaught in order, with book list, short summaries and reading tips for her contemporary romances about the Foster family and their Beautiful Living magazine.
Last updated: December 18, 2025
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Publication Order
2 books
Remember When
by Judith McNaught
1996
When glossy-magazine founder Diana Foster is humiliated by a public breakup, Texas billionaire Cole Harrison offers an unexpected solution: a marriage of convenience that could rescue both their reputations. Pretend vows soon blur into real feelings neither planned on.
Double Exposure
by Judith McNaught
1995
Photographer Corey Foster creates dreamy spreads for her family’s Beautiful Living magazine. A lavish perfect-wedding shoot unexpectedly pairs her with the man she once loved, giving them a second chance to see if their spark still burns.
Series background & context
The Foster Saga centers on a blended Texas family whose homegrown magazine turns into a lifestyle empire. Instead of dukes and castles, these stories focus on photo shoots, charity galas, and the complicated loyalties that come with step‑siblings, new marriages, and sudden wealth.
In the novella Double Exposure, we meet Corey and Diana Foster, the creative and business minds behind Foster’s Beautiful Living, a glossy magazine devoted to gracious homes and entertaining. Diana keeps the company running; Corey handles the photography that gives the brand its signature look. When Diana arranges a “perfect wedding” spread at a grand estate, Corey discovers that the groom‑to‑be is the man who once broke her heart, forcing her to balance professional polish with very personal unfinished business.
Remember When shifts the spotlight to Diana. Her magazine and television ventures are thriving, but her own life is in shambles after a tabloid splashes news of her fiancé running off with an heiress. At a glittering Houston charity ball, she crosses paths with Cole Harrison, a self‑made Texas billionaire with reasons of his own to consider a strategic marriage. What begins as a calculated partnership soon brings Diana into Cole’s close‑knit small‑town family and asks hard questions about identity, loyalty, and what “success” actually looks like.
Through the Foster books McNaught plays with contrasts: high‑society expectations versus modest roots, public image versus private reality, and the way love can upend carefully drawn business plans. Readers move from polished city offices to front porches and backyard cookouts, seeing both the perks and the pressures of living in the spotlight.
The tone is warm, family‑centered, and a little bit glitzy. There are boardroom deals and photo spreads, but also step‑parent tensions, sibling rivalries, and the sense that the real happily‑ever‑after isn’t just a wedding—it’s finding a place where you are fully known and still chosen.
If you enjoy contemporary romance that keeps one foot in everyday family life and the other in a world of mansions and media, the Foster Saga offers a compact but satisfying corner of McNaught’s universe. Starting with Double Exposure and then moving to Remember When lets you watch the Foster sisters’ lives unfold in order.
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