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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2001
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

American Dads

1 - Once Upon A Thanksgiving (Oct-2008)
2 - Once Upon A Christmas (Dec-2008)
3 - Once Upon A Valentine's (Feb-2009)

Cupid Falls

1 - Christmas in Cupid Falls (Oct-2014)

Everything But

1 - Everything But A Groom (Jan-2008)
2 - Everything But a Bride (Sep-2008)
3 - Everything But a Wedding (Jan-2009)
4 - Everything but a Christmas Eve (Jan-2010)
5 - Everything but a Mother (Feb-2012)
6 - Everything but a Dog (Dec-2012)

A Harry's Pottery Mystery

1 - A View to a Kiln (Feb-2022)
2 - Slip and Fall (Nov-2023)

Hometown Hearts

1 - Crib Notes (Jan-2020)
2 - A Special Kind of Different (Mar-2020)
3 - Homecoming (Jun-2020)
4 - Suddenly a Father (Sep-2020)
5 - Something Borrowed (Jan-2021)
6 - Something Blue (Mar-2021)
7 - Something Perfect (May-2021)
8 - A Hometown Christmas (Sep-2021)

A Maid in LA Mystery

1 - Steamed (Dec-2013)
2 - Dusted (Jan-2016)
3 - Spruced Up (Jan-2016)
4 - Swept Up (Jan-2016)
5 - Polished Off (May-2018)

Markie Walkowicz

1 - Can't Find NoBODY (Jan-2017)

Nothing But

1 - Nothing But Love (Dec-2012)
2 - Nothing But Heart (Jan-2013)
3 - Nothing But Luck (Feb-2013)

Perry Square

1 - Do You Hear What I Hear? (Nov-2001)
2 - A Day Late and a Bride Short (Mar-2003)
3 - Dad Today, Groom Tomorrow (Aug-2003)
4 - Be My Baby (Aug-2004)
5 - Once Upon a Princess (May-2005)
6 - Once Upon a Prince (Jul-2005)
7 - Once Upon a King (Sep-2005)
8 - Here With Me (Jul-2006)

Related Books

1 - Ready, Willing and...Abel? (Jan-2002)
2 - Raising Cain (Jan-2002)

A Valley Ridge Wedding

1 - You Are Invited... (Apr-2013)
2 - April Showers (May-2013)
3 - A Walk Down the Aisle (Jun-2013)
4 - A Valley Ridge Christmas (Dec-2013)

Wedding Mishaps

1 - How To Catch a Groom (Sep-2002)
2 - How To Hunt A Husband (Sep-2003)

Whedon

1 - Unexpected Gifts (Nov-2009)
2 - A One-of-a-Kind Family (Feb-2010)
3 - Homecoming Day (Dec-2010)
4 - A Father's Name (Sep-2011)

WLVH Radio

1 - Pickup Lines (Apr-2005)
2 - Love Handles (Sep-2005)
3 - Night Calls (May-2006)
4 - Laugh Lines (Mar-2007)

Words of the Heart

1 - Carry Her Heart (May-2015)
2 - These Three Words (Nov-2015)
3 - Hold Her Heart (Sep-2016)

Multi-Author Series List

9 Months Later

61 - Unexpected Gifts (Nov-2009)

Count on a Cop

46 - Homecoming Day (Dec-2010)

Everlasting Love

Same Time Next Summer (Aug-2008)

Suddenly a Parent

23 - A Father's Name (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 76 titles



  • Ouch! Carrington Rose Delany needs Jack Templeton, her longtime best buddy, to rescue her...from tearing wax strips? Jack has always been there for Carrie, and she's determined to return the favor. To educate the uptight lawyer, Carrie "tricks" Ja...



  • For months, the town matchmakers had tried to set up stubborn single mom Libby McGuiness with every eligible bachelor in Erie, Pennsylvania. But Libby had sworn off men long ago and she wasn't about to give her heart to another member of the male spe...



  • Lucy Caldwell has a plan. Yup, thanks to her best friend, Hannah, she'll give her son, Cain, the chance to have siblings, even if they are only temporary ones and known as demon-spawn! Lucy's sure it will be the summer of their dreams. Unfortunately,...



  • Abel Kennedy is shocked! Make a baby with Hannah Harrington? He's been asked for stuff before, but this? One day he's a mild-mannered real estate guy, the next he's stud service for the sexy nurse-midwife. He knows he's able to do what Hannah is aski...



  • Yes, ladies, it's time to put that plan into action! Step1: Find an incredibly cute guy, such as Seth Rutherford -- scientist, logician, total nonromantic. Step 2: Introduce him to a beautiful, charming female, such as Desi Smith -- super-duper wed...



  • Paige "Pollyanna" Montgomery, a local TV reporter, is scouting a story about nice people doing nice things. She dons a pregnancy belly to discover who's willing to help out a stranger. Whereas the last thing hunky, hard-hitting newspaper journalist R...



  • HE NEEDED A FIANCE...FAST! With his dark good looks and talent for seeking justice, Elias Donovan thought he had the best recipe for making partner in his law firm. But according to his family-minded boss, Donovan lacked one crucial ingredient: a ...



  • Meanwhile, the chase is on to discover Hiho's secret. Will Zoe Wallace, festival chairperson, be able to foil intrepid reporter Mace Mason's quest for the truth? Sure, he's an out-of-towner, but with each minute he's not only closer t...



  • WHEN FATE STEPS IN... Joe Delacamp was speechless. Louisa Clancy was the last person he'd expected to see when he walked into the sweet-smelling Perry Square bake shop. She was just as beautiful as he'd remembered, but it wasn't until the E.R. doc...






  • Catch and keep! Shannon O'Malley and Nate Calder know a good thing when they see it -- namely, each other. They agree to don dual identities -- sexy stripper for her, badass biker for him -- to fake out their meddling moms. When Roxy and Bull, aka...



  • HOLD, PLEASE... Somewhere in between managing the family business and dealing with out-of-control relatives, Ari Kelly had done something for herself -- finished her thesis on stress and phone-answering systems. And now that was causing her mor...



  • HE WAS A HEARTHROB...AND Amelia Gallagher delighted in taunting Larry Mackenzie -- the gorgeous partner at the law firm where she worked. He was every woman's fantasy -- except for one minor detail. He was utterly opposed to commitment. So why was h...



  • Markie's Monday list: Smash a couple of alarm clocks Get out of bed Drink lots of coffee Dress and search for keys Avoid dead body... What??? A double shot of espresso couldn't jolt Markie Walkowicz more than discovering a stiff on he...



  • Mary Rosenthal is looking forward to her summer vacation. Good books, the beach...life doesn't get any better. But when her aging car blows up she's desperate enough to take part in WLVH's newest contest-live in a truck for a chance to win it. It's n...



  • Breaking News: Royals in Perry Square! Princess Marie Anna Parker Mickovich Dillonetti, aka Parker Dillon, may have convinced some folks that she was just a waitress. But no one is buying local private eye Jace O'Donnell's story that protecting th...



  • Royals in Perry Square -- AGAIN! We didn't think future princesses rode around on motorcycles, but Shey Carlson -- local coffee shop diva -- just might prove us wrong! Seems Prince Eduardo Matthew Tanner Ericson is back in town, and this highly ...



  • WLVH radio station lives by the motto "WLVH, Lovehandles, where love is more than just a song." They proved it over the summer when two contestants, Mary and Ethan, ended up falling in love and planning to marry.

    Peter "Punch" O'Brien can think of...



  • Will a Fast Getaway Lead to Forever? Prince Antonio Michael Paul Mickovich Dillonetti blew in and out of our beloved Perry Square at record speed three months ago. We all thought he'd come to visit his sweet sister, Parker, but instead he was spot...



  • Welcome back to WLVH Lovehandles, where love is more than just a song.

    Cassie Grant's nighttime radio program, Night Calls, centers around the belief that true love exists, that it matters. Unfortunately, Cassie's own love life disappears when sh...






  • Sneaking in is the easy part. But living it down is tough... One corporate pink slip and Morgan Miller is back in Pittsburgh bunking next to her mother. But when Morgan agrees to attend a posh wedding reception for fabulous "Penny and Sam," she's ...



  • THREE ISN'T COMPANY -- IT'S AN INVASION! At least that's what Lee Singer thinks when her parents park their RV behind her home on an extended visit, and do what they don't do best -- meddle in her (nonexistent) love life! On the other hand, the...



  • TV reporter Merry Deluca's "'tis the season to be greedy" story is about to get complicated--her new cameraman is recently ex-fiance Patrick MacFarland! And he's got a whole new angle for her story.......



  • Welcome back to Erie, PA! The disc jockeys from WLVH radio station are emceeing at a local comedy club, Chuckles. They are out to prove to their audience and to themselves that WLVH, where love is more than just a song, still has the magic touch, no ...



  • Home isn't a place--it's a feeling Brian Conway is Hayden MacNulty's hero from the start. One Halloween, she knocks on his door, and before long, her puppy love turns serious. His mother, Kathleen, welcomes her with open arms. Brian...



  • Every Hungarian grandma knows that words have power. Nana Salo never meant the words she said in anger to become a family curse, but that's just what happened. Her granddaughter Vancy is just the newest victim. Vancy's fiance has left her at the alta...



  • Can summer magic keep the shadows at bay? As children... During their families' summer vacations, Carolyn Kendal and Stephan Foster were inseparable--running in the hot sand, chasing shadows and building a friendship that would last a lifetime. ...



  • Every Hungarian grandma knows that words have power. Nana Salo never meant the words she said in anger to become a family curse, but that's just what happened. She thought she had a good chance of undoing it at her granddaughter's wedding, bu...



  • It's A Time For Giving And Receiving...Love As if working and raising her family of five--four kids and one demanding cat--isn't enough, Samantha Williams has been volunteered to oversee a Thanksgiving pageant at her kids' school. So a relationshi...



  • Are three people about to get their Christmas wish? When her nephew announces he's going to find his father, Michelle Hamilton never dreams the man's actually going to show up at her door! Only a paternity test will determine whether Daniel McLean...






  • Every Hungarian Grandma knows that words have power. Nana Salo never meant the words she said in anger to become a family curse, but that's just what happened. Two grandchildren have found love, but not managed to break the curse. Nana's last hope is...



  • Love Changes Everything Planning the Erie Elementary Valentine's dance is as close as Carly Lewis intends to come to romance. In fact, the once-burned single mom has vowed to stay far away from the flame. Until her shed literally goes up in smoke. A...



  • Life happens...and then life really happens! Teacher Eli Cartwright has it all figured out -- the career, the reliable boyfriend and the next few dependable decades. Yet life has quite a sense of humor, it seems, since her perfectly ordered existe...



  • For years, Nana Vancy Bashalde Salo believed that she'd cursed her own family with bad weddings. Now that the curse is broken, she's bored. Her best friends, the Silver Bells, convince her to try her hand at matchmaking. And Nana has just the person ...



  • She's some kind of special... Anna Chapel believes in people. She believes in helping them lead exceptional lives. Now the dedicated life coach wants to do that for different yet special Colm Franklin. If Colm's breath-stopping, overprotec...



  • Time to let go...and let someone else in Laura Watson thinks she'll never get over the pain of losing the man she loved. But when her son is born, Lieutenant Seth Keller is right there with her. The widowed Erie cop has his own reasons to grie...



  • A love to be proud of Tucker -- as Angelina Tucker is known to her friends -- is in the midst of big change. The pressures of juggling single parenthood and the family business keep her busy 24/7. And now something else is throwing her world into ...



  • After attending TC and Eve's wedding on Christmas Eve, Nana Vancy and her cohorts, Isabel and Annabelle, are looking for two more unsuspecting victims--er, friends--to play matchmaker for. It just so happens Isabel's nephew, Henry Hanson, is visiting...



  • Wannabe matchmaker Nana Vancy has donned her Cupid wings once again -- this time for Dr. Della McGraw, the distant cousin of her pal Annabelle. Together with her partners in crime, Annabelle and Isabel, she concocts a clever plan to find Della her k...



  • A WLVH Radio Series and Everything But... Series SHORT story.Take one WLVH disc jockey who adopts a special dog.Add in one man who thinks he's lost everything.Let one Everything But... grandmother, Nana Vancy, stir things up.And maybe find Nothing Bu...






  • Samson the Seahorse never gets to go out exploring in the big ocean with his friendsâhe is just too little. But when Oliver the Octopus is in a tight situation, everyone else is too big to help. Will Samson be able to save the day? Swim along with S...



  • A WLVH Radio Series and Everything But... Series SHORT story.Take one WLVH disc jockey and one meddling, matchmaking grandmother.Add in two neighbors and a stray cat.And maybe find Nothing But Heart in this story that's full of Valentine's magic....



  • A WLVH Radio Series and Everything But... Series SHORT story.Take one WLVH disc jockey and one meddling, matchmaking grandmother.Add in a bartender and a shelter volunteer on a busy St. Patrick's Day in downtown Erie.And maybe find Nothing But Luck i...



  • Valley Ridge, New York's most unlikely couple For Mattie Keith it's the best and the worst of times. She should be reveling in the joy that one of her closest friends is getting married. Instead, she's being sued. All because of the th...



  • Rainbows don't come without rain The world you want isn't always how the world is. Former marine Sebastian Bennington discovers that upon his return to Valley Ridge for a friend's wedding. Even his grandfather's health isn't w...



  • Speak now...or forever keep your secrets? Colton McCray's an "I do" away from the perfect life. He's got a prosperous farm and he's lucky enough to have fallen in love with a good woman like Sophie Johnston. What more could a ...



  • The first installment of award-winning & bestselling author Holly Jacob’s MAID IN LA mystery series Cleaning Can Be Murder on a Manicure! Quincy came to LA looking for fame and fortune but became a mother and a cleaning service owner instead...



  • The whole town's in on this Christmas secret! Maeve Buchanan isn't the jealous type. But with another Valley Ridge wedding approaching, she's feeling a twinge of envy. Everyone seems to be finding "it" -- except her. Not that ...



  • Ty loves to play basketball. There's only one problem: he isn't very good. When a new boy comes to town and takes Ty's spot on his street's basketball team, Ty is devastated. That is until he has a little talk with a mustard seed who gives him a litt...



  • “Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I’d discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.” Artist Lexie McCain spends her days literally weaving the s...






  • “Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I’d discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.” Artist Lexie McCain spends her days literally weaving the s...



  • Kennedy Anderson loves Cupid Falls, Pennsylvania. Ever since moving there as an orphaned teenager, she's worked hard to carve out a place for herself in the tight-knit community. Now she's mayor and owner of the town's flower shop. But she also has a...



  • “Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. Maybe we’re always in the process of metamorphosing into something new.” In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons. Each entry marks the passage of time since...



  • Good can come out of bad If it wasn't for the tragic accident ten years earlier, Audrey Smith might never have taken in the three foster kids she loves so dearly. And if it wasn't for the new addition to her home -- a troubled teenage thief -- sh...



  • Starting over is never easy. Addie and Graham “Gray” Grayson should know: they are a couple on the brink. But they weren’t always. Childhood friends who fell in love, they complemented each other perfectly: her sunny, gregarious outlook was an ...



  • The second installment in award-winning & bestselling author Holly Jacob’s Maid in LA mystery series Quincy Mac came to LA as an aspiring actress, but ends up a mom and the owner of a cleaning service instead. When she inadvertently cleans up a ...



  • The third installment in award-winning & bestselling author Holly Jacob’s Maid in LA mystery series When LA’s favorite maid inadvertently cleans a murder scene, she finds love, laughter and a bit of mystery! Quincy Mac has not only bested a...



  • The fourth and final installment in award-winning & bestselling author Holly Jacob's Maid in LA mystery series--It's a climatic end for Quincy Mac, LA's favorite maid! Quincy Mac came to LA as an aspiring actress, but when she inadvert...



  • The infant daughter Piper Chesterfield gave up for adoption so many years ago has grown into an accomplished young woman. When Piper’s husband shows up on Siobhan Ahearn’s doorstep, he makes a request on behalf of the birth mother Siobhan has nev...



  • ---- originally published in 2004 as "Found and Lost" Fans of Holly Jacobs' bestselling Maid in LA Mysteries are in for another zany who-dunnit. This time there's a disappearing (and reappearing) dead body. As she hurries out t...



  • Fans of Holly Jacobs' Bestselling Just One Thing and Words of the Heart Series will love this small story with a big heart! Rose sometimes feels that her life has been checkered with too much loss. On one the hardest day of her life, Rose's grandm...



  • ----- originally published in 2007 as "The House on Briar Hill Road" Fans of Holly Jacobs’ Romance+ Novels will love taking a journey down Briar Hill Road. Lucky people are born into their families, but some have to find them. Ha...



  • The fifth and final installment in award-winning & bestselling author Holly Jacob's MAID IN LA mystery series -- It's a climatic end for Quincy Mac, LA's favorite maid! Quincy Mac came to LA as an aspiring actress, but when she inadver...



  • She's on the Run . . . Sunny Whitman left her old life behind after the man she thought she loved betrayed her trust. She left Erie, PA with a car full of belongs, her giant dog Shep, and shattered dreams. Deputy Josh Able is working on reb...



  • A Short Story Sequel to Briar Hill RoadLove Happens in the MomentsEven as a little girl, Livie knew exactly what she wanted in a man. "He’ll quiet and he’ll listen when I talk. He’ll think I’m the most beautiful woman ever." That is not what...



  • Fans of Holly Jacobs' I WAXED MY LEGS FOR THIS? will love this small town romantic comedy!Erie, Pennsylvania reporter, Mace Mason longs for a big, groundbreaking story but he doubts he's going to find it in a small town in neighboring Ohio. What he d...



  • ---- originally published in 2009 as "Unexpected Gifts" You can’t cheat at life… You can’t cheat at love. Eli Cartwright has her life all figured out -- she has a career she loves and a sensible boyfriend. Then life tests her. ...



  • --- originally published in 2010 as "A One-of-a-Kind Family" Different kinds of lives… A different kind of love. Anna Chapel believes everyone deserves to live their best life. She wants to help Colm Franklin realize that his diffe...



  • ---- originally published in 2010 as "Homecoming Day" Life Gives Second Chances... Sometimes So Does Love Laura Watson lost the only man she’s ever loved, her fiancé and the father of her unborn child. Her heart is broken and her ...



  • ---- originally published in 2011 as "A Father's Name" She Doesn’t Believe in Love... He Doesn’t Believe in Himself Angelina Tucker has spent her adult life juggling single motherhood and the family business. She doesn’t dr...



  • ---- originally published in 2013 as "You are Invited" She Doesn't Believe in Love... He Doesn't Believe in Himself Angelina Tucker has spent her adult life juggling single motherhood and the family business. She doesn't ...



  • ---- originally published in 2013 as "April Showers" It Takes More Than Time To Heal...It Takes Love. Former marine Sebastian Bennington is coming home for a friend's wedding. He tries to pretend everything’s the same, but he ca...



  • ---- originally published in 2013 as "A Walk Down the Aisle" They were the perfect couple… Until they weren’t. Maybe true love can bring them back together. This Hometown Wedding is For Better…or Maybe Worse. Farmer Colton ...



  • ---- originally published in 2013 as "A Valley Ridge Christmas" Sometimes changing the world begins with changing your own life. "I can't save the world...but I can try." Those are the words Maeve Buchanan tries to live b...



  • Life doesn't always take you where you think you should go...it takes you where you need to be. Harry Lawe got a divorce, quit her job and rewrote her life. She left her emotionally distant father’s law firm and opened her own pottery studio...



  • Sometimes Life Gives Second ChancesIf it wasn't for a tragedy, Audrey Smith wouldn't have the family she loves so dearly. And if it wasn't for the new addition to her home—a troubled young thief—she wouldn't be have met Sawyer Williams....



  • Harry's solved the mystery of a dead body in her kiln. All this potter wants to do is get back to her studio, back to the life she's built...and back to her budding romance with attorney, Micah McCain. Then a customer slips and falls...and ends up d...


Award-Winning Books by Holly Jacobs

Found and Lost
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Flipside
The House On Briar Hill Road
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Everlasting Love


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Holly Jacobs has published 76 books.

Holly Jacobs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Slip and Fall, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Holly Jacobs, I Waxed My Legs for This?, was published in January 2001.

Yes. Holly Jacobs has 15 series.