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Inglath Cooper Books in Order

Browse all Inglath Cooper books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, author background, and simple suggestions on where to start.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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The Last Good Man

by Inglath Cooper

1997

In this earlier edition of Good Guys Love Dogs, single father Ian McKinley brings his teenage son to a small Virginia town for a fresh start. There he meets veterinarian Colby Williams, whose own family secrets make love anything but simple.

A Woman Like Annie

by Inglath Cooper

2003

Annie McCabe wants to save Macon's Point, build a steady life for her son, and keep her town intact. Then Jack Corbin arrives with the power to close its biggest employer and the unsettling possibility of becoming important to her.

A Man to Believe In

by Inglath Cooper

2005

This edition tells Willa Addison's story of family secrets, a missing father, and unexpected love in Pigeon Hollow. Between the diner, her troubled sister, and Owen Miller's arrival, her carefully contained life begins to crack open.

A Year and a Day

by Inglath Cooper

2005

Audrey Colby's wealthy life is a polished trap, and escape is her only real goal. Former prosecutor Nicholas Wakefield sees the danger around her and becomes part protector, part complication, in a tense romance shaped by survival.

The Lost Daughter of Pigeon Hollow

by Inglath Cooper

2005

Willa Addison runs her mother's diner and raises her younger sister until a stranger arrives with a letter from the father she thought was dead. Romance and family upheaval collide as Willa starts rethinking everything she thought she knew.

A Gift Of Grace

by Inglath Cooper

2006

Years after giving away his late wife's baby in a moment of grief, Caleb Tucker meets Sophie Owens and a little girl who looks hauntingly familiar. His chance at grace could also destroy the life Sophie has built.

A Woman with Secrets

by Inglath Cooper

2006

After her ex-husband steals her inheritance, Kate Winthrop steals some of it back and boards a boat for the Caribbean. Hiding out seems simple until she falls for captain Cole Hunter and realizes secrets do not stay buried for long.

Good Guys Love Dogs

by Inglath Cooper

2012

Ian McKinley moves his troubled teenage son from New York to small-town Virginia, hoping for a reset. Instead he meets veterinarian Colby Williams, whose love of animals and complicated past make starting over feel both dangerous and possible.

Ready to Reach

by Inglath Cooper

2012

Nineteen-year-old CeCe Mackenzie heads for Nashville with a guitar, a Walker Hound named Hank Junior, and an old car called Gertrude. When the car dies on the way, fate introduces her to the two men who will change everything.

Truths and Roses

by Inglath Cooper

2012

Former football star Will Kincaid returns home after a career-ending injury and collides with Hannah Jacobs, the girl who once rejected him. Their history is full of buried secrets, and neither can revisit it safely.

Hammer and a Song

by Inglath Cooper

2013

CeCe McKenzie reaches Nashville chasing a singing career and falls hard for gifted songwriter Holden Ashford, who already has a girlfriend. Music, ambition, and messy timing make her dream a lot more complicated than she expected.

Mayor of Macon Point

by Inglath Cooper

2013

Mayor Annie McCabe is fighting to save Macon Point and the people who depend on its main employer. Jack Corbin arrives ready to tie up business and leave, then finds himself drawn to the town's fiercest champion.

Pleasure in the Rain

by Inglath Cooper

2013

Just as Barefoot Outlook starts to break big, tragedy crashes the party and throws everyone's future into doubt. The book blends career momentum with grief, shock, and the cost of wanting more.

What We Feel

by Inglath Cooper

2013

CeCe, Holden, and Thomas keep chasing the Nashville dream, but success only magnifies the pressure on their relationships. This installment deepens the series' triangle of friendship, love, and painful choices.

Amazed

by Inglath Cooper

2014

Country star Thomas Franklin thinks he's fine with fame, friendship, and keeping things casual until Lila Bellamy walks back into his life. Their history is unfinished, and Lila is hiding a secret that could change everything.

Commit

by Inglath Cooper

2014

Thomas Franklin and Lila Bellamy finally have the life they wanted, from love to a delayed honeymoon in Anguilla. Then fate strikes hard, turning a blissful beginning into one of the series' most emotional tests.

Crossing Tinker's Knob / And Then You Loved Me

by Inglath Cooper

2014

This collection pairs two emotional second-chance romances about old love, family pressure, and the pull of home. Both stories lean reflective and heartfelt, with characters forced to revisit choices they thought were long settled.

Rock Her

by Inglath Cooper

2014

In this earlier edition of That Month in Tuscany, overlooked wife Lizzy Harper meets troubled rock star Ren Sawyer on a flight to Italy. What begins as a chance encounter turns into a soulful escape from the lives both thought they had to keep living.

Sweet Tea and Me

by Inglath Cooper

2014

Thomas and Lila get a second chance, but it starts with a midnight escape, a rescued dog, and the daughter they now have to learn how to parent together. Nashville gives them a future, if they can survive the messy beginning.

That Month in Tuscany

by Inglath Cooper

2014

Lizzy Harper flies to Italy after her husband stands her up for their anniversary trip and ends up entangled with burned-out rock star Ren Sawyer. Their unlikely connection becomes a tender story of reinvention, desire, and seeing yourself clearly again.

Blue Wide Sky

by Inglath Cooper

2015

Sixteen-year-old Gabby Hayden loves water-skiing, dogs, and long days on Smith Mountain Lake, not boys, until Sam Tatum changes everything. Their first love feels endless until life pulls them apart and years later asks what still remains.

Dragonfly Summer

by Inglath Cooper

2015

Keegan Monroe blames herself for her daughter's disappearance and leaves Los Angeles for Smith Mountain Lake. There she meets Bowie Dare, a former FBI agent who understands damage, distance, and second chances.

My Italian Lover

by Inglath Cooper

2015

Esme Westbrook travels to Portofino for a meeting that could change the rest of her life. Set against the beauty of the Italian coast, this is a wistful romance about risk, memory, and one more chance at happiness.

R U Serious

by Inglath Cooper

2015

CeCe and Holden's marriage looks solid, but life in the spotlight attracts the wrong kind of attention. When obsession turns dangerous, fame becomes less glamorous than it ever looked from the outside.

The Heart That Breaks

by Inglath Cooper

2017

An emotional contemporary romance about grief, heartbreak, and the hard choice to keep loving after loss. Cooper leans into the ache, then slowly turns the story toward hope.

Jane Austen Girl / Down a Country Road

by Inglath Cooper

2018

This edition tells Grier McAllister's Timbell Creek story under two titles. Forced back to the Virginia hometown she swore off, Grier must face old wounds, small-town memories, and the possibility that love still lives there.

Fences

by Inglath Cooper

2019

Tate Callahan returns to Smith Mountain Lake convinced Jillie Andrews betrayed the only real love he ever trusted. Old accusations and buried hurt force them to face the past and ask whether protection has turned into its own prison.

Not Without You

by Inglath Cooper

2019

CeCe and Holden seem to have everything they once dreamed of, until a trip to Belize changes the stakes completely. What follows is an emotional test of love, distance, and whether they can find each other again.

Swerve

by Inglath Cooper

2019

When two teenage girls vanish after a music festival near Washington, psychiatrist Emory Benson launches a desperate search for her younger sister. The hunt pulls her into a darker world than she imagined and leaves no room for playing it safe.

That Birthday in Barbados

by Inglath Cooper

2019

On the edge of forty, newly divorced executive Catherine Camilleri escapes to Barbados instead of facing a party and a life that no longer fits. There she meets Anders Walker, who shows her how different a second act could look.

You, Me and a Palm Tree

by Inglath Cooper

2019

After violence jolts CeCe and Holden's life off course, the Nashville power couple starts questioning fame, marriage, and what matters most. Then superstar Jacob Bartley turns temptation into a real threat.

A Dog Named Nate

by Inglath Cooper

2020

Divorced and burned out, Tanner Morgan gets stranded in a small town and joins doctor Gabe Traynor to rescue an injured stray dog. Their shared kindness sparks a romance that feels both unexpected and overdue.

John Riley's Girl

by Inglath Cooper

2020

Olivia Ashford goes back to Summerville for a reunion and comes face to face with the boy she once loved. Time has changed them, but not the questions she still carries about the night he failed her.

That Weekend in Paris

by Inglath Cooper

2020

After her husband betrays her, songwriter Dillon Blake heads to Paris hoping to poach country star Klein Matthews from her ex's company. Revenge quickly tangles with attraction, forcing her to decide what kind of fresh start she really wants.

Unfinished Business

by Inglath Cooper

2020

Single father Culley Rutherford reconnects with old friend Addy Taylor during a chance night in New York, then finds her back in Harper's Mill. With an orchard, a little girl, and unfinished feelings in the mix, home starts to look different.

The Strawberry Field

by Inglath Cooper

2025

After a medical crisis leaves Dr. Sawyer Berkley doubting her work and herself, she retreats to Smith Mountain Lake to heal. There she meets Jake, a man who recognizes grief and offers a gentler way forward.

Where should I start?

If you want an escapist travel romance: That Month in TuscanyThat Birthday in BarbadosThat Weekend in Paris
If you want a long, emotional music saga: Ready to ReachHammer and a SongWhat We FeelPleasure in the Rain
If you want small-town Virginia romance: Blue Wide SkyDragonfly SummerFencesThe Strawberry Field
If you want second-chance stories with heart: Truths and RosesGood Guys Love DogsJane Austen Girl / Down a Country Road
If you want higher-stakes drama: SwerveA Year and a Day

Author bio

Inglath Cooper is a Virginia novelist who built her writing life the same way a lot of devoted readers do, by falling hard for books long before she ever tried writing one. She has said she devoured most of the books in her elementary school library as a girl, and that early reading life still feels like the foundation of everything she writes.

Reading came first.

She has often described herself as a writer who learned by paying close attention to stories she loved. One of her simplest pieces of advice to aspiring writers is that everything she knows about writing books came from reading books. That idea fits her work. Her novels are usually character-driven, emotionally direct, and interested in the turning points that reshape ordinary lives.

A lot of those lives unfold in small Virginia towns like the one where she grew up. That sense of place matters in her fiction. In books such as Truths and Roses, Good Guys Love Dogs, and Blue Wide Sky, home is never just scenery. It is memory, pressure, comfort, gossip, and the place where people often have to face the thing they have been avoiding for years.

She also likes women at crossroads. Sometimes that means a heroine returning home and running into an old love. Sometimes it means starting over after divorce, grief, betrayal, or plain exhaustion. Readers who pick up That Month in Tuscany get a travel romance with a rock star and an Italian backdrop, but underneath the escape fantasy is a woman trying to remember herself. In Ready to Reach and the later Nashville books, she shifts into the world of country music and follows artists chasing careers, connection, and some version of a real life inside a public one.

Then there is the wider range in her catalogue.

John Riley's Girl, the book that won her a RITA Award for best long contemporary series romance, is a strong example of what she does well: second chances, old hurts, and the emotional weight of going back. Swerve shows another side of her writing, with a darker, more suspenseful setup built around a disappearance and a desperate search. A Year and a Day pushes into fear and survival. Even when the circumstances change, the through line stays much the same. Her characters are trying to rebuild after life has knocked them off course.

Dogs matter in her books, and in her life.

Outside fiction, Cooper has long been active in animal rescue work in Virginia, especially through the Franklin County Humane Society. She has helped in practical ways, including fundraising, board service, photographing animals for adoption, and fostering. That tenderness toward animals shows up naturally in her fiction too, especially in books like A Dog Named Nate and Good Guys Love Dogs.

What readers often respond to most is the mix she keeps returning to: small-town warmth, mature romantic longing, family complications, and the belief that it is not always too late to begin again. Whether she is writing about a lake town in Virginia, a singer trying to make it in Nashville, or a woman stepping off a plane in Italy, the emotional question is usually close to the same. What if the life you thought was over still has one good turn left?

She is still identified as a Virginia author, and that feels right for the body of work she has created. Her books keep circling back to love, place, and the hard, hopeful work of starting over.

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