Sheri Cobb South Books in Order

Penny Collier wants to impress one boy badly enough to meddle with a rival school's basketball plans. Instead, she finds herself drawn to Woody, one of the very players she should be treating as the enemy.

Darby Haynes can't stand Bruce Edwards, even before she asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend. Their fake romance starts as a dodge and turns into something much harder to control.

Wendy Miller's summer job as a seamstress at a teen beauty pageant gets complicated when Spencer Fife mistakes her for a contestant. One small lie opens the door to a fairy-tale romance that cannot stay simple for long.

Molly only agrees to help transform sweet, clumsy Gary Hadley because her brother has money riding on the result. The makeover works a little too well, and Molly ends up risking her own heart.

One of South's Sweet Dreams romances, this is a light high school love story built on mixed signals, bruised feelings, and the sudden realization that the wrong crush may be hiding the right one.

Sir Harry Hawthorne finally notices his fiancee when someone else starts paying court to her. His answer is spectacularly foolish: he disguises himself as an elderly chaperone and tries to watch over Olivia from inside her drawing room.

When her father loses everything, Lady Helen Radney becomes a solution to a financial problem. Ethan Brundy, a wealthy Lancashire mill owner with rough edges and real feelings, means to marry her anyway.

Ethan and Helen's seaside honeymoon is overrun by guests, including a mysterious young woman claiming to be Ethan's sister. While everyone tries to prove or disprove her story, other romantic complications take over the house.

Ruined and exiled in France, Lord Waverly agrees to help a runaway novice reach her English grandfather. By the time they arrive, the old man is dead, and a convenient marriage starts looking very inconvenient indeed.

Set in ancient Egypt, this novel pairs Lila, a Hebrew shepherdess taken from her family, with Ra-Met, a powerful nobleman who first wants her voice and then far more. Their uneasy bond grows against a backdrop of oppression and upheaval.

John Pickett's first big case begins with a dead viscount, a vanished butler, and a widow who looks very much like the obvious suspect. John is not convinced, and his refusal to settle for the easy answer changes his life.

A poor curate learns he is a duke, loses his memory on the road to claim his title, and stumbles into a household that badly needs rescuing. What follows is a Regency tangle of amnesia, family schemes, and love arriving from the least likely direction.

Julia escapes to Yorkshire after scandal, only to find a country house humming with tension. When the local vicar dies after dinner, John comes north disguised as her footman to investigate murder, secrets, and old resentments.

Fresh out of college, Tara Bentley wants a real journalism career, not a tiny hometown paper. Working under a grouchy former football star is not her plan, but the job may turn out to be exactly what she needs.

In 1936, Frankie Foster leaves Georgia for Hollywood and lands work as an extra in a costume picture. When the producer drops dead on set, she has to untangle the truth before the film, and her future, go under.

Tracy Brock thinks transfer student Jimbo Maxwell is exactly the kind of boy she should avoid. Then she starts tutoring him to keep him eligible for football, and his humor and decency get under her careful guard.

In Scotland, Julia and her nephews find an unconscious woman who may be a laird's daughter missing for fifteen years. When the family patriarch dies just after changing his will, John and Julia have another knotty case on their hands.

When English lord Richard Ramsay learns his American cousin Susannah has inherited a Kentucky plantation, marriage seems like the practical answer. Susannah's red hair, blunt manners, and frontier spirit make the arrangement anything but easy.

A London dinner party ends with one guest shot dead, and John arrives to investigate at the worst possible moment. He and Julia are also dealing with the fallout from learning their recent masquerade as husband and wife was legally binding.

Before Bow Street, John Pickett was a hungry fourteen-year-old thief with a transported father and no future worth naming. This prequel follows the lucky arrest that put him in Patrick Colquhoun's path and changed everything.

Jewel thefts at Drury Lane send John undercover as a gentleman, with Julia along to keep him from embarrassing himself. Then the theatre catches fire, and the investigation suddenly turns personal.

While John and Julia wait for their accidental marriage to be untangled, a robbery at a Piccadilly linen draper's shop gives him something else to think about. The case is small, but it shows how sharp he already is.

John's honeymoon in Somersetshire turns into a trial by family when he meets Julia's disapproving parents and hears rumors of a long-lost sister's ghost. Then a groom is murdered, and the past refuses to stay buried.

In 1961, schoolteacher Robin Fletcher joins her widowed aunt on a cruise from Barcelona to Venice and sees someone throw something overboard on the first night. Strange incidents follow, along with travel, romance, and real danger.

Newly married and touchy about living on Julia's money, John takes a case from a countess who thinks her husband wants her dead. A masked ball, class tensions, and a very uneasy marriage make this one cut close to home.

An anonymous letter draws John and Julia to the Lake District, where his contact is killed before he can explain anything. Since Julia witnessed the murder, the couple quickly realize the killer may not be finished.

Newly titled and badly in debt, Theo Radney hides out in a mill under an assumed name until his inheritance can be settled. Daphne Drinkard knows her newest boarder is no ordinary worker, but not what trouble he carries.

A fresh case sends John west with fellow runner Harry Carson, but the real danger begins when Julia is abducted. The pursuit races through England, Wales, and Ireland, with old grief and revenge close behind.

Seventh-grader Cole Patterson thinks he could help his middle school football team if only the coach would play him. The problem is that the coach is his dad, and every chance Cole gets comes with extra pressure.

A child fleeing a botched robbery looks uncannily like John Pickett, and the clue leads him to a ten-year-old half-brother in the London slums. To save the boy from a criminal gang and the gallows, John has to move fast.

With his private inquiry business going nowhere, John Pickett is low enough to wonder whether the world would be better without him. One knock on the head drops him into a strange alternate life where he was never there at all.

After leaving Bow Street, John Pickett takes a risky job rescuing a young woman from a private asylum for opium-eaters. Getting inside is easy. Getting back out, and sorting truth from deception, is much harder.

John finally has a respectable home life, a growing business, and a baby on the way when his father returns from Botany Bay. Less than a day later the old rogue is dead, and family business turns into murder.

South's nonfiction guide is aimed at writers who want a steadier, more practical career path. It focuses on concrete, budget-friendly ways to build income over time instead of waiting for luck.

Penelope Fayre slips away to Bartholomew Fair before resigning herself to a sensible marriage. There she meets a charming swordsman who later turns up in quite another role, with a stolen inheritance and his own plans.

Widowed Caroline Fayre takes a governess post to support herself and her young son, only to find grief and tension thick in Lord Westermain's house. A trip to Bartholomew Fair helps bring old secrets into the open.