Susan Wilson Books in Order
Browse Susan Wilson books in order, with quick summaries, where-to-start tips, and background on her dog stories, romances, and New England dramas.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Susan Wilson books in publication order
13 books
Beauty
by Susan Wilson
1996
Portrait painter Alexandra Miller travels to remote New Hampshire expecting a commission and finds a house full of unease. As she gets to know the badly disfigured Leland Crompton, this modern fairy tale turns into a tender story about fear, trust, and love.
Hawke's Cove
by Susan Wilson
2000
In 1944, grieving Evangeline Worth returns to her grandmother's farm and falls into a dangerous bond with a mysterious stranger while her husband is at war. Decades later, a recovered plane and a new romance force old secrets back into the open.
Cameo Lake
by Susan Wilson
2001
Cleo McCarthy escapes to a borrowed cottage at Cameo Lake to finish her novel and claim a little space for herself. Instead she finds a mysterious composer across the water, a betrayal at home, and a hard reckoning with what she wants.
The Fortune Teller's Daughter
by Susan Wilson
2002
Sabine Heartwood has finally put down roots in Moose River Junction, far from her wandering fortune-teller mother. When Danforth Smith comes home and Sabine's own psychic gift stirs awake, love and an old family mystery become impossible to ignore.
Summer Harbor
by Susan Wilson
2003
After nearly twenty years away, Kiley Harris returns to Hawke's Cove to prepare her family's beach house for sale. The trip pulls her back into an old love triangle, long-buried secrets, and the question of who fathered her son.
One Good Dog
by Susan Wilson
2010
Adam March loses his job, his marriage, and the life he built to hide a hard childhood. Assigned to community service at a homeless shelter, he reluctantly takes in a battered pit bull mix and learns what trust might look like.
The Dog Who Danced
by Susan Wilson
2012
On a cross-country trip, Justine Meade is separated from her Sheltie, Mack, and refuses to stop searching. While Mack brings comfort to a grieving older couple, Justine's search becomes a journey through loss, abandonment, and the ties that still hold.
A Man of His Own
by Susan Wilson
2013
After World War II leaves Rick Stanton broken in body and spirit, the return of his beloved dog Pax changes everything. The soldier who fought beside Pax joins Rick and Francesca's household, and their gratitude, grief, and loyalty begin to tangle.
The Dog Who Saved Me
by Susan Wilson
2015
Grieving former Boston cop Cooper Harrison comes home to Harmony Farms as the town's dog officer, a job he never wanted. Rescuing a frightened feral dog forces him to face old family shame, fresh loss, and the life he has been avoiding.
Two Good Dogs
by Susan Wilson
2017
Skye Mitchell buys a battered Berkshires hotel hoping to give her daughter a better life, but both the business and her family are already fraying. When Adam March arrives with Chance, two dogs help a fragile group of strangers become something like a family.
The Dog I Loved
by Susan Wilson
2019
Fresh out of prison, Rose Collins hopes the therapy-dog program that changed her life can help her start again. In Gloucester, her path crosses with wounded veteran Meghan Custer, and two remarkable dogs push both women toward trust and independence.
The Infinity Files
by Susan Wilson
2021
Ash Yang dreams of becoming a starfighter pilot, but a disastrous test leaves her with a stranger job: Guardian of the Infinity Files. Now she must race across the galaxy recovering artifacts powerful enough to end wars, or start them, while her own world is under threat.
What a Dog Knows
by Susan Wilson
2021
Traveling psychic Ruby Heartwood is used to running, until a storm, a stray spaniel, and a strange new ability to hear dogs' thoughts strand her in Harmony Farms. As town secrets surface, Ruby is forced to face the past she has spent years escaping.
Where to start with Susan Wilson
If you want her bestselling dog novels: One Good Dog → The Dog Who Danced → Two Good Dogs
If you like healing stories with dogs at the center: A Man of His Own → The Dog I Loved → The Dog Who Saved Me
If you want her earliest standout love story: Beauty
If you enjoy family drama with a psychic thread: The Fortune Teller's Daughter → What a Dog Knows
If you prefer earlier, relationship-driven drama: Hawke's Cove → Summer Harbor → Cameo Lake
Standalone Susan Wilson books

Beauty
by Susan Wilson
1996
Hawke's Cove
by Susan Wilson
2000
Cameo Lake
by Susan Wilson
2001
The Fortune Teller's Daughter
by Susan Wilson
2002
Summer Harbor
by Susan Wilson
2003
One Good Dog
by Susan Wilson
2010
The Dog Who Danced
by Susan Wilson
2012
A Man of His Own
by Susan Wilson
2013
The Dog Who Saved Me
by Susan Wilson
2015
Two Good Dogs
by Susan Wilson
2017
The Dog I Loved
by Susan Wilson
2019
The Infinity Files
by Susan Wilson
2021
What a Dog Knows
by Susan Wilson
2021
Author bio
Susan Wilson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in Middlefield, Connecticut. She studied English in college, but for a long time writing was something she kept mostly to herself, more private habit than career plan. As a girl she loved the idea of being a writer and bought an old typewriter when she was about twelve, then filled pages with stories that served as her first real practice.
For a long time, though, writing stayed in the background.
She married young, raised two daughters, worked practical jobs, and wrote around the edges of everyday life. Like a lot of working writers, she squeezed it in at night and kept going even when publication still felt far away. That slow, ordinary persistence matters in her story.
The big turn came after she moved to Martha's Vineyard and bought her first computer. She started finishing novels, met other writers through the Island's arts community, and finally had people she could talk to about the work. One friendship led to an introduction to a writer, then to an agent, and eventually to the book that became Beauty.
Published in 1996, Beauty gave Wilson her first wide readership. It reworks the old Beauty and the Beast idea through the story of a portrait painter and a badly disfigured man in remote New Hampshire, and it later became a television movie. Her next books, including Hawke's Cove, Summer Harbor, Cameo Lake, and The Fortune Teller's Daughter, kept returning to the territory she knows well: New England towns, family history, wounded hearts, and people trying to make a life after disappointment.
Then the dogs moved to the center of the page.
Wilson has said that a conversation with her agent nudged her toward writing dog stories, and the fit turned out to be a natural one. One Good Dog, about a hard-driving Boston businessman and a battered pit bull mix, became a bestseller and spent six weeks on the New York Times list. Readers who came for the dog found something deeper too: stories about shame, loneliness, class, and the hard work of change.
She stayed with that emotional lane, and it suits her. The Dog Who Danced follows a woman searching for her lost Sheltie and later won the Maxwell Medal for fiction from the Dog Writers Association of America. A Man of His Own looks back to World War II through the bond between a married couple, a soldier, and the dog they all love. The Dog I Loved and What a Dog Knows show the same strengths in a slightly different key, one rooted in second chances, the other adding a lightly mystical twist.
What readers tend to like about Wilson is pretty clear. Her books are emotional without getting too sweet. Her settings feel lived in. Her people are often bruised, stubborn, or quietly adrift, and the dogs are never just there to soften the plot. They matter, because they push the human characters toward honesty, trust, and connection.
Wilson has long been part of the Martha's Vineyard creative community, alongside her writing life. She lives on the Island with her husband, and at last check her household included a spoiled Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Cora. It feels fitting. In Susan Wilson's fiction, home is rarely simple, but it is always worth finding.
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