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Wendy Wax Books in Order

Find all Wendy Wax books in order, from Ten Beach Road to her standalones, with quick summaries, series notes, and easy advice on where to start.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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Key to My Heart

by Wendy Wax

1999

Arden Daniels inherits a house and refuses to sell it to builder Alec Kane, no matter how persistent or handsome he is. Their property standoff turns into a romance about trust, independence, and risking love.

7 Days and 7 Nights

by Wendy Wax

2003

Radio advice host Olivia Moore is trapped in a cramped reality-show apartment with Matt Ransom, the coworker who broke her heart. Seven televised days of sniping and sparks threaten both her career and her resolve.

Leave It to Cleavage

by Wendy Wax

2004

When Miranda Smith discovers her husband has vanished with the money and the family bra business is sinking, she has to take charge. Her search for answers becomes a funny, messy fight for survival and self-respect.

Hostile Makeover

by Wendy Wax

2005

Shelley Schwartz is determined to prove she belongs at her father's ad agency, even with golden-boy Ross Morgan in her way. Their workplace rivalry turns personal fast as family pressure and attraction collide.

Meet Leatherhead

by Wendy Wax

2005

The Turtles think they know what to expect from another mutant encounter, then meet Leatherhead. This short adventure introduces a surprising new creature and throws in an old enemy to keep the action moving.

Single in Suburbia

by Wendy Wax

2006

Three mismatched women start cleaning houses in their polished suburb to help keep Amanda's family afloat. What they find behind those neat doors, plus a few tempting complications, turns desperation into a funny amateur investigation.

The Accidental Bestseller

by Wendy Wax

2009

Four longtime writer friends pour their own secrets into a collaborative novel meant to rescue one fading career. When the book explodes into a hit, success brings scandal and some hard truths about what they hide from each other.

Magnolia Wednesdays

by Wendy Wax

2010

After a humiliating career crash and an unexpected pregnancy, journalist Vivien Gray goes undercover in suburban Georgia. What starts as a mocking column turns into a deeper look at family, friendship, and the life she thought she despised.

Ten Beach Road

by Wendy Wax

2011

Three women wiped out by a Ponzi scheme are left co-owning a crumbling beachfront mansion called Bella Flora. Rebuilding the house in Pass-a-Grille becomes their last shot at money, trust, and a fresh start.

Ocean Beach

by Wendy Wax

2012

Maddie, Avery, and Nikki head to South Beach to restore a historic house for a television makeover show. But with cameras rolling, a looming hurricane and an old mystery threaten both the project and their fragile new lives.

Christmas at the Beach

by Wendy Wax

2013

Back at Bella Flora for the holidays, Maddie, Avery, and Nicole try to enjoy Christmas after a chaotic year. This novella catches up with the women as family tensions, friendship, and future plans follow them to the beach house.

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey

by Wendy Wax

2013

Weekly screenings at a historic Atlanta apartment building bring together Samantha, Claire, Brooke, and their charming concierge. Their shared obsession becomes the start of friendship, reinvention, and some very messy personal reckonings.

The House on Mermaid Point

by Wendy Wax

2014

The friends take on a new renovation in the Florida Keys for reclusive rock legend William Hightower. Reality television, family complications, and unexpected romance make the island job far messier than any of them planned.

A Week at the Lake

by Wendy Wax

2015

Emma returns to the annual lake retreat she once shared with Serena and Mackenzie, hoping to confess a buried betrayal. Then an accident silences her, leaving the other women to uncover the truth on their own.

Sunshine Beach

by Wendy Wax

2016

Kyra discovers a faded beachfront hotel that looks perfect for the group's next big project. But romance trouble, grief, pregnancy fears, and an unsolved murder turn the renovation into a much riskier gamble.

A Bella Flora Christmas

by Wendy Wax

2017

Kyra hopes for one last peaceful Christmas at Bella Flora before a mystery tenant moves in. Surprise guests and a looming New Year's decision force the whole group to rally for the house and their own futures.

One Good Thing

by Wendy Wax

2017

The women are fighting to reclaim their reality show while their finances and relationships fray. With Nikki on bed rest and Bella Flora secretly at risk, everyone has to decide what can still be saved.

Best Beach Ever

by Wendy Wax

2018

After giving up their renovation show, the women move into cottages at the Sunshine Hotel and rent out Bella Flora. New tenants, old wounds, and fresh ambitions push Maddie, Avery, Nikki, Kyra, and Bitsy to rethink what comes next.

My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding

by Wendy Wax

2019

A treasured family wedding dress links three women across generations on the Outer Banks. As Lauren's wedding nears, old secrets, broken friendships, and a coming storm force Kendra, Bree, and Lauren to confront the past.

The Break-Up Book Club

by Wendy Wax

2021

Four very different women meet at an Atlanta bookstore book club just as their lives start coming apart. Through novels, wine, and hard conversations, they find the nerve to face heartbreak, marriage trouble, and second chances.

Just Beachy

by Wendy Wax

2025

After losing her long-running television role, actress Sydney Ryan heads to Treasure Island for a reset. Instead she finds her grandmother tangled in secrets, a string of break-ins, and help from an old crush and the Ten Beach Road women.

Where should I start?

If you want the core beach-house series: Ten Beach RoadOcean BeachThe House on Mermaid Point
If you want warm ensemble friendship fiction: While We Were Watching Downton AbbeyThe Break-Up Book Club
If you want old friends and deeper secrets: A Week at the LakeMy Ex-Best Friend's Wedding
If you want lighter romantic comedy: 7 Days and 7 NightsHostile MakeoverSingle in Suburbia
If you want the newest Florida reset: Just Beachy

Author bio

Wendy Wax was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and grew up on St. Pete Beach, practically within reach of the Gulf of Mexico. She has written about attending Sunshine Elementary, where recess and even art class sometimes happened on the beach, which tells you a lot about why water, weather, and coastal towns feel so natural in her fiction.

Books got hold of her early.

She has said she was convinced children were supposed to arrive at school already knowing how to read, so at five she pushed a neighbor into teaching her. Reading quickly became both a pleasure and a habit, and one of her earliest big literary loves was Gone with the Wind. That book helped send her to college in Georgia, and you can still feel that taste for strong setting, emotional upheaval, and complicated women running through her work.

Before she turned to novels, Wax spent years in broadcasting and production. She worked in radio, television, and film, hosted a live radio show called Desperate and Dateless, and was even the voice of the Publix teller machines. It is a wonderfully specific career footnote, and it hints at something useful for a novelist too: an ear for dialogue, timing, and the way people reveal themselves when they talk.

Fiction came later, not as an early straight-line plan, but in the middle of family life. She has said she started writing her first novel while she was home with a toddler and a newborn. That origin story makes sense when you read her books. She understands interruption, pressure, reinvention, and the feeling that life can change before you are fully ready for it.

She writes about upheaval without losing sight of humor.

Many readers know her best for the Ten Beach Road novels, which begin with three women who lose their savings and are left with a battered beachfront house called Bella Flora. Books like Ten Beach Road, Ocean Beach, The House on Mermaid Point, and Best Beach Ever blend friendship, money trouble, romance, family strain, and Florida renovation projects in a way that feels warm without feeling weightless. Her newer Just Beachy returns to that same coastal world from a fresh angle.

Her standalones work in a similar register. While We Were Watching Downton Abbey uses a shared TV ritual to bring lonely neighbors together in Atlanta. A Week at the Lake looks at old friends, buried secrets, and whether trust can be rebuilt. The Break-Up Book Club finds comedy and heart in a group of women whose lives are all coming loose at once. Even earlier books like 7 Days and 7 Nights, The Accidental Bestseller, and Magnolia Wednesdays show her interest in sharp banter, career stress, family complications, and second chances.

She likes reset stories.

Over the years, Wax has picked up writing honors, including the RT Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction, and in 2011 her hometown declared a Wendy Wax Day. After more than thirty years in Atlanta, she moved back to Florida's west coast, near the water and beaches that shaped her childhood and some of her best-known novels. It feels like a fitting home base for a writer whose books so often ask the same hopeful question: when life falls apart, what can you build in its place?

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