Chicago Stars — by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Order	Book	Date	Rating
1	It Had to Be You	Aug-1994	4
2	Heaven, Texas	Apr-1995	4
3	Nobody's Baby But Mine	Jan-1997	4
4	Dream a Little Dream	Feb-1998	4
5	This Heart of Mine	Jan-2001	5
6	Match Me If You Can	Aug-2005	5
7	Natural Born Charmer	Feb-2007	5
8	First Star I See Tonight	Aug-2016	5
9	When Stars Collide	Jun-2021	5
10	Simply the Best	Feb-2024	0

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  It Had to Be You
  

  • Aug-1994

  Book - 1
  

  TWO HEARTS COLLIDE The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head ...

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  Heaven, Texas
  

  • Apr-1995

  Book - 2
  

  THE ANGEL AND THE HELLRAISER Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to track down the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton and drag him back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But taming an egotistical cow...

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  Nobody's Baby But Mine
  

  • Jan-1997

  Book - 3
  

  Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which...

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  Dream a Little Dream
  

  • Feb-1998

  Book - 4
  

  A DESPERATE YOUNG MOTHER Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a ...

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  This Heart of Mine
  

  • Jan-2001

  Book - 5
  

  Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar i...

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  Match Me If You Can
  

  • Aug-2005

  Book - 6
  

  You met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed. Annabelle's endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement ... even her ...

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  Natural Born Charmer
  

  • Feb-2007

  Book - 7
  

  NO ONE CAN RESIST A NATURAL BORN CHARMER A gorgeous football player ... A Lonely Colorado highway ... A woman dressed in a beaver suit. Life's funny that way. It wasn't every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, no...

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  First Star I See Tonight
  

  • Aug-2016

  Book - 8
  

  A star quarterback and a feisty detective play for keeps in this sporty, sexy, sassy novel a long-awaited new entry in the beloved, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author's fan-favorite Chicago Stars football series. Piper Dove is a wo...

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  When Stars Collide
  

  • Jun-2021

  Book - 9
  

  #1 New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns to her beloved Chicago Stars series with a romance between a Chicago Stars quarterback and one of the world’s greatest opera singers -- and a major diva. Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens,...

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  Simply the Best
  

  • Feb-2024

  Book - 10
  

  #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns with the next book in her Chicago Stars series where a successful sports agent and the sister of his biggest client engage in a take-no-prisoners battle of the sexes. Take one h...

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Awards

Dream a Little Dream
1998 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Contemporary Romance
1998 All About Romance Reader Award -- Most-Hanky Read
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Around Romance
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Love and Laughter Romance
1999 Rita Award -- Contemporary Single Title
First Star I See Tonight
2016 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Love & Laughter
Heaven, Texas
1995 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance
It Had to Be You
1994 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Around Romance
1994 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance
1994 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Love and Laughter Romance
1995 Rita Award -- Best Romance
1996 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
1997 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
2000 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
2001 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
2002 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Contemporary Romance
Match Me If You Can
2005 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Contemporary Romance
2005 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Funny
Natural Born Charmer
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Contemporary Romance
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Favorite Funny
2008 Audies -- Romance
Nobody's Baby But Mine
1997 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Contemporary Romance
1997 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Funny
1997 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Romance
1997 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance
1997 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Love and Laughter Romance
1998 Rita Award -- Best Romance
1998 Rita Award -- Contemporary Single Title
This Heart of Mine
2001 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance