Jennifer Crusie Books in Order

Ambitious Kate Svenson heads to an upscale resort with a detailed plan to land the perfect husband. After a series of disastrous dates, she keeps ending up with Jake, the easygoing handyman who is everything her checklist says she should avoid.

High school teacher Lucy Savage thinks divorce will finally free her from her cheating husband, until someone starts trying to kill her. Detective Zack Warren moves in for round-the-clock protection, and the hunt for an embezzler turns into an unexpected romance.

Ad executive Emily Tate lives for big ideas and bold campaigns, especially her new perfume launch for Sizzle. Straight-laced accountant Richard Parker is sent to keep her on budget, but their constant clashes in the boardroom quickly spark a very personal attraction.

Free-spirited Tess Newhart grew up on a commune; her ex, Nick Jamieson, is a polished lawyer climbing the corporate ladder. When she agrees to pose as his fiancée for a crucial weekend with his boss, politics, class, and long-buried feelings collide.

Dumped and demoted, radio producer Allie McGuffey is determined to rebuild her career by turning laid-back temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a star. Their casual rebound fling deepens as late-night shows, Chinese takeout, and small-town secrets pull them closer together.

Private investigator Mitch Peabody expects dull domestic cases, not glamorous clients. Then Mae Sullivan walks in, convinced her beloved uncle was murdered and his journal holds the proof. As Mitch digs into Chicago’s underworld, he discovers Mae is far more dangerous to his heart than any thug.

Newly divorced Nina Askew celebrates turning forty by moving into a tiny city apartment and adopting Fred, a depressed basset hound. Fred promptly introduces her to Alex, the gorgeous thirty-year-old ER doctor downstairs, forcing Nina to question her rules about age, love, and second chances.

Bohemian artist Daisy Flattery agrees to impersonate buttoned-up professor Linc Blaise’s fiancée so he can land his dream job. Their tidy arrangement spins out into a real marriage, shared house, and slow-burn attraction that tests whether opposites can build a genuine happily-ever-after.

Investigative reporter Dennie Banks heads to a Florida romance-readers convention chasing a con artist. Undercover federal agent Alec Prentice is hunting the same swindler. Mistaken identities, competing agendas, and a sizzling attraction force them to decide whether they can trust each other on anything.

In peaceful Frog Point, Ohio, Maddie Faraday thinks she knows exactly who she is: good wife, good mother, good daughter. Finding a stranger’s black lace underwear in her husband’s car blows that life apart, dragging her into adultery rumors, embezzlement, murder, and the return of her first love.

Art teacher Quinn McKenzie is tired of living a safe, beige life with the world’s nicest, most controlling boyfriend. Adopting a neurotic stray dog sparks her rebellion, sending ripples through her small town as she moves out, claims her own house, and falls for dangerous mechanic Nick Ziegler.

Filmmaker Sophie Dempsey arrives in Temptation, Ohio, to shoot a low-budget video and leave quietly. Instead she tangles with the town’s moral crusaders, stumbles over a corpse, and starts a no-strings affair with Mayor Phin Tucker that turns into the hottest, messiest election issue in town.

Freshly divorced and drifting, Nell Dysart takes a secretarial job at a shabby detective agency just to get moving again. Cleaning up the office drops her into a web of embezzlement, family feuds, and murder, while constant clashes with boss Gabe McKenna spark a fierce, grown-up love story.

Mural painter Tilda Goodnight is trying to keep her family’s history of art forgery buried. Con man Davy Dempsey wants to steal back the millions his ex swindled. When they collide during a midnight break-in, their uneasy alliance against a lethal widow becomes a wild caper and an unexpected romance.

Seven Seasons of Buffy collects essays by science fiction and fantasy writers, including Jennifer Crusie, who examine Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s characters, themes, and cultural impact, from slaying metaphors to high-school horror and why the show still matters.

Practical actuary Minerva Dobbs overhears a bet that smooth-talking Calvin Morrisey cannot get her into bed. She agrees to one dinner determined to prove him wrong. Repeated “last” dates, meddling families, Krispy Kremes, and a rescue cat named Elvis slowly convince them that love might not be a fairy tale after all.

Five Seasons of Angel brings together writers and professionals, among them Jennifer Crusie, to explore the spin-off series Angel, looking at its brooding hero, villains, redemption arcs, and how the show expanded the Buffy universe into darker, more adult territory.

Edited by Jennifer Crusie, Flirting With Pride And Prejudice gathers essays from novelists and critics who revisit Austen’s classic. The pieces look at everything from Lydia and Wickham’s scandal to modern dating, showing why Pride and Prejudice keeps inspiring new stories.

An essay collection edited by Jennifer Crusie, Totally Charmed gathers smart, funny pieces about the TV series Charmed, exploring its witchy sisters, demons, and San Francisco setting through the lenses of pop culture, storytelling, and feminist romance.

Commercial director Lucy Armstrong takes over the final days of a chaotic action-movie shoot in the Georgia swamps. Green Beret J.T. Wilder signs on as a stunt double and military advisor, then discovers someone is using the production to cover a very real and very deadly operation.

Three holiday romances share one volume: a frantic hunt for the last must-have toy, an office Christmas party that turns coworkers into lovers, and a case of mistaken identity involving twin brothers. Light, sexy stories about finding love under the tree.

Food writer Agnes Crandall just wants to cater a mob-adjacent wedding at her beloved old house. After a dognapper breaks into her kitchen and bodies start turning up, professional hitman Shane is sent to protect her, and together they juggle gunmen, flamingos, missing millions, and inconvenient attraction.

Coffee at Luke’s is a collection of essays about Gilmore Girls, edited by Jennifer Crusie. Writers dig into Stars Hollow’s businesses, Lorelai and Rory’s mother-daughter bond, the show’s pop-culture references, and why a small-town diner can feel like home.

Three Fortune sisters have spent their lives hiding inconvenient magical powers and trying to be normal. When their scheming aunt arrives with plans to steal their gifts and three tempting men in tow, the sisters must break an old curse, choose love, and finally own who they are.

In Summerville, Ohio, three very different women meet at a dog-training class and end up drafted as priestesses for an ancient goddess determined to reclaim the world. As their dogs start talking and their love lives unravel, they have to save the town and themselves, preferably before finals and coffee runs.

Project manager Mab Brannigan is hired to restore Dreamland, a crumbling amusement park. She soon learns the rides are actually cages for powerful demons, the new security chief is not entirely human, and saving the park may require facing both real monsters and the ghosts of her own past.

Free-spirited Andie Miller agrees to help her ex-husband North by spending a month with two troubled orphans in a decaying country mansion. The children insist the house is haunted, strange visitors keep arriving, and Andie must untangle ghost stories, old love, and a very present danger.

This Smart Pop collection explores antiheroes and sympathetic villains across books, TV, and film. Essays, including contributions from Jennifer Crusie, look at characters who blur the line between good and evil and why flawed heroes can be more compelling than perfect ones.

Crazy People gathers the early short stories that grew into Crazy for You, focusing on Quinn, Darla, Stephanie, and the small-town families around them. It offers sharp, funny glimpses of the relationships, dogs, and disasters that later anchor the novel.

Be Mine is a three-story anthology about falling in love around Valentine’s Day, featuring Jennifer Crusie’s sizzling office romance Sizzle alongside novellas by Victoria Dahl and Shannon Stacey. Each tale delivers quick, contemporary heat and a satisfying happy ending.

On Christmas Eve, Trudy Maxwell is desperate to find the last Major MacGuffin action figure for her nephew. Grabbing the final toy on the shelf throws her into a ridiculous spy game with ex-date Nolan Mitchell, complete with code words, car chases, and a very unexpected kiss.

This holiday collection bundles Jennifer Crusie’s comic caper Hot Toy with novellas by Donna Alward and Mandy Baxter. Together they follow a frantic toy hunt, a found baby in a seaside town, and a wary billionaire rancher discovering that Christmas can still change everything.

Ghostwriter Liz Danger returns to her hometown of Burney, Ohio, for a quick visit and walks straight into her ex-boyfriend’s wedding, her mother’s drama, and a murder investigation. The one bright spot is Vince Cooper, the new cop in town who keeps hauling her out of trouble.

With her boss settled in Burney and Vince’s police department under political attack, Liz Danger is finally forced to decide what she wants from both her town and her partner. As biker gangs, corrupt officials, and fresh crimes collide, saving Burney may cost Liz the safe exit she always planned.

Stuck in Burney for the summer, Liz Danger juggles a high-maintenance boss, a deepening relationship with Vince Cooper, and the fallout from a shady housing development bringing guns and outsiders to town. Arson, dirty politics, and a widowed ex who will not leave quietly keep raising the stakes.

Single mom Rose Malone loses her landlord and boss in one day, then learns her tiny Smoky Mountains town is full of retired spies. When hiker Max Reddy and his dog step in during a violent confrontation, Rose pulls them into a community where hidden money and old grudges make romance dangerous.

Max Reddy is trying to get back to the Appalachian Trail and leave Rocky Start behind; Rose Malone is trying to keep her daughter and her inherited building safe. A body staged in a coffin and a rash of suspicious deaths force them to hunt a killer in a town full of ex-assassins.

Someone in Rocky Start is targeting women, and rumors of long-buried operations start surfacing. As bodies and secrets pile up, Rose, Max, and their odd network of retired agents must untangle old missions from new motives if they want both the town and their future together to survive.