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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1984
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Carson Springs Novel

1 - Stranger in Paradise (Jun-2001)
2 - Taste of Honey (Jun-2002)
3 - Wish Come True (Jul-2003)

A Cypress Bay Mystery

1 - Bones and Roses (Aug-2014)
2 - Swimsuit Body (Mar-2015)

Garden of Lies

1 - Garden of Lies (May-1989)
2 - Thorns of Truth (Apr-1998)

Gold Creek Book

1 - All They Need to Know (Oct-2024)

Seniors

1 - Too Much Too Soon (Jun-1984)
2 - Smart Enough To Know (Aug-1984)
3 - Winner All the Way (Oct-1984)
4 - Afraid to Love (Nov-1984)
5 - Before It's Too Late (1985)
6 - Too Hot to Handle (Mar-1985)
7 - Hands Off, He's Mine (1985)
8 - Forbidden Kisses (1985)
9 - A Touch of Ginger (Sep-1985)
10 - Presenting Superhunk (1985)
11 - Bad Girl (1985)
12 - Don't Say Good-Bye (1985)
13 - Kiss and Make Up (1986)
14 - Looking for Love (1986)
15 - Sweet Talk (Jul-1986)
16 - Heart for Sale (Aug-1986)
17 - Life of the Party (Sep-1986)
18 - Night after Night (1986)
19 - Treat Me Right (1986)
20 - Against the Rules (1986)

Super Seniors

1 - Old Enough (1986)
2 - Hawaiian Christmas (1986)
3 - Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1988)
4 - Deep-Sea Summer (Jun-1988)

Who Killed Peggy Sue

1 - Dying to Win (Oct-1991)
2 - Cross Your Heart Hope to Die (Nov-1991)
3 - If Looks Could Kill (Oct-1991)
4 - Jailbird (Nov-1991)

Multi-Author Series List

Eileen Goudge's Swept Away

1 - Gone With the Wish (Sep-1986)
6 - Once upon a Kiss (May-1987)

Book List in Order: 60 titles



  • Four friends on the brink of graduation -- and adulthood ... It's senior year at California's Glenwood High for sexy Kit McCoy, athletic Alex Enomoto, brainy Elaine Gregory, and beautiful Lori Woodhouse. It is a time for discovery -- and for falli...



  • She's a wildcat in disguise.... Elaine's closest friends -- Kit, Alex, and Lori -- are the only ones who know that she is also the rowdy school mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat. To the rest of the school, she is shy, soft-spoken Elaine Gregory "the Brai...



  • Sometimes winning is not enough ... For lean, tawny Alex Enomoto, nothing feels better than a perfectly executed dive, one where she soars through the air and enters the water with razor-sharp precision. Nobody understands this better than Alex...




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    Having finally found a loving foster family, Stephanie falls for Rick, the handsome son of one of Glenwood's wealthiest families, but she fears that their relationship will be destroyed by her lack of family and her police record for shoplifting...




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    When a tragic pole-vaulting accident leaves her track star boyfriend bitter and depressed about the possibility that he may never walk again, Roseanne Parker finds that his anger and bitterness threatens their relationship...



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    Crushed when her boyfriend moves away, Lori spends time baby-sitting Melissa, the three-year-old daughter of a neighbor, but problems arise when she falls in love with Melissa's young father, Chris Farleigh...



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    When her parents become foster parents, Alex is upset by her new sister, Stephanie, a hostile, devious sixteen-year-old who uses her beauty to get what she wants--and she wants Danny, Alex's boyfriend...







  • Upset when her boyfriend, Carl, suggests they start dating others, Elaine gets a professional beauty makeover and attracts the attention of sophisticated Brian Fitzgerald, a twenty-one-year-old computer whiz turned millionaire...






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    Karen Waverly and Jeff Becher are constantly at odds with one another, but when Karen's mom, a widow, and Jeff's divorced father begin to date, Karen and Jeff collaborate on a scheme to end the budding romance....




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    When a plane crash leaves beautiful, popular Marcia Connors and five friends stranded in the mountains, she discovers some doubts and unpleasant truths about her relationship with her dashing boyfriend, Jay Avery...




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  • Sixteen-year-old Ashley Calhoun journeys back through time to a pre-Civil War plantation, where she encounters a young girl named Violet, who will become her own great-great-grandmother--if Ashley can keep her from marrying the wrong boy....









  • Rachel and Rose. They grew up worlds apart. Rachel, in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor. Rose, in the New York slums, yielding to passion too young, too soon, and fleeing heartbreak to become a star lawyer....



  • A murderous senior year kicks off this twist-filled series with “a slickly constructed plot, a bouncy narrative and an abundance of cliffhangers” (Publishers Weekly).   The town of Paradiso, California, is abuzz during the lead-up to its ann...






  • The murder of a first-place winner rocks a small-town high school in the third thriller from the author of Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die.   With the killer of the Peach Blossom Queen still on the loose and the festival on hold, everyone is on ed...



  • A high school tradition takes a deadly turn and a killer crushes the competition in the second suspense-filled thriller following Dying to Win.   Senior year isn’t supposed to end like this -- with the death of a fellow student. Now, instead o...



  • In the heart-stopping series finale from the author of If Looks Could Kill, a new festival queen is crowned, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.   With a suspect who has confessed to the murder of the Peach Blossom Queen behind bars, the...



  • They were sisters, but they could scarcely be more different...Annie, the independent one, whose natural glamour and sharp business sense helped her create a fabulous chocolate shop on Madison Avenue--and Laurel, the sensitive one, who became a noted...



  • SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Grace and Nola. They are daughters of the same man, but grew up worlds apart. Grace in Georgian southern comfort, child of a powerful senator. Nola in the Washington, D.C. slums, a young black woman determined to succeed as a ...



  • Once, Ellie Nightingale has been an unwed teenage mother, adrift in New York City. Now, she is a renowned psychologist, married to a brilliant doctor--but unable to forget what had happened to her and her baby in that nightmare time. Once, sociali...



  • The impending marriage of Rose's capable and caring son to Rachel's emotionally troubled daughter threatens to uproot a lifetime of buried secrets. Once again the two women and their families are pitted against each other...just as Rachel learns that...



  • The Seagrave sisters were about to come home to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of their parents' marriage. Instead, they are attending their father's funeral--and their mother's trial for his murder. The Seagraves had been pillars of the communit...



  • Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...














  • Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...



  • Noelle Van Doren has never forgiven her mother for putting her career ahead of her family responsibilities. Left in her grandmother's care for much of her childhood, Noelle always swore that things would be different with her own daughter. And they w...



  • In sun-drenched Carson Springs, nestled amid the hills of southern California, the only thing juicier than the oranges is the local gossip. Strolling down a street lined with colorful shops, few would guess of the scandals here..or the rich and tangl...



  • With Carson Springs still reeling from Samantha Kiley's romance with a charismatic younger man, her best friend Gerry Fitzgerald fires up the town with another sensational scandal. The child Gerry gave up for adoption twenty-eight years ago--and kept...



  • After years in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi decided it was time to shed that extra weight and reinvent herself. Now she's a knockout--and her emerging beauty has escaped no one, least of all her sister. But when Monica i...



  • What if you could live the life you've always dreamed of -- but never pursued? What if your choices -- married or single, career or motherhood, city or country -- could be made all over again? Bestselling author Eileen Goudge ponders "what might have...



  • What does it mean to be a family? New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge's engaging new novel is a powerful adventure into the heart of marriage, motherhood, and four friends who discover they may be the best family they ever had. Fiftee...






  • A powerful story of love and redemption, and what one woman will do to overcome the buried secrets of her past. Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her son. Now she's returned home to G...



  • From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman in Red comes an intimate story of friendship lost and regained, old loves rekindled, and a baptism by fire that ultimately leads to the redemption of three very special women. It begins with a betr...



  • Two sisters discover startling secrets in their mother’s old journal in this “poignant” novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of Garden of Lies (Debbie Macomber). Emily and Sarah Marshall are cleaning out their dying mother’s attic...



  • From the New York Times bestse mg aut or of Woman in Red and The Diary comes another emotionally charged family drama, focusing on two sisters and their turbulent lives and loves. While growing up, it was Lindsay's job to look after her little siste...



  • A professional matchmaker with six months to live tries to find her husband’s next wife in this poignant novel by a New York Times"bestselling author.
     Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived m...



  • A Hollywood film crew upends life in an idyllic California village in this prequel to the Carson Springs trilogy In the late 1950s, filmmakers descended on Carson Springs to shoot the movie that made this sleepy Spanish mission town famous. A plaq...



  • An amateur sleuth attracts the right clients, the wrong boyfriends -- and a kinky killer -- in this cozy mystery by New York Times"bestselling author Eileen Goudge.   After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay...



  • New York Times"bestselling author Eileen Goudge blends mystery and romance in a captivating new novel featuring intrepid property manager Tish Ballard, whose client’s beachfront home becomes a headline-making homicide scene With a Hollywood movie...



  • A housekeeper’s daughter and a daughter of privilege find their fortunes reversed in this novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Diary. The caretaker’s cottage is the only home fifteen-year-old Abigail Armstrong has ever known. S...



  • Sisters separated as children are reunited as adults in this wise, funny novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Diary. Lindsay and Kerrie Ann Bishop were twelve and three when they were shunted into the foster care system. Thirty ye...



  • A woman escaping a violent past finds new friendships, romance, and tenuous sanctuary in an emotionally gripping novel by New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge.On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unkno...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eileen Goudge has published 60 books.

The next book by Eileen Goudge, All They Need to Know, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Eileen Goudge, Too Much Too Soon, was published in June 1984.

Yes. Eileen Goudge has 7 series.