Lani Diane Rich Books In Order

Crazy in Love

Flynn Daly is turning thirty. And thirty is the age where she has to, gulp, get a job. Not just any job, but a job working for her real estate magnate father, a man who’s tired of supporting his daughter through her many careers. So when their great aunt Esther Goodhouse, proprietress of a historic inn nestled in Nowhere, New York, dies, Flynn finds herself smack dab in the country, contending with a hotel staff that’s unsure of their new boss, a scruffy, sexy ex policeman named Jake Turner who’s convinced that Esther’s death wasn’t as natural as it seemed, and the ghost of Aunt Esther herself, who starts showing up in Flynn’s dreams and undoing all the personal touches that Flynn tries to make to her new home.

Wish You Were Here

Freya Daly has always been a smart businesswoman tough, unemotional, and a killer at negotiations. But for the last few months, she’s been bursting into tears for no reason at all. Even though she’s sure it must be some kind of rare eye condition, her boss and father removes her from her usual task of buying high rent commercial properties in Boston, and banishes her to a rundown campground in Idaho with orders to obtain the property at any cost. Why the property is so valuable, Freya doesn’t know. All alone and far from home, her rare eye condition only gets worse. The one thing that seems to help is the friendship she strikes up with Piper Brody, a little girl who shows Freya that being a kid again can be a lot of fun.

Nate Brody is a five star chef in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, at the moment, he’s not in Cincinnati he’s running his father’s rundown campground in Idaho. Having made a deathbed promise to his father to find a mysterious lost item before selling the place, Nate is anxious to get back home, where his restaurant and career wait for him…
. though, maybe not for much longer if he doesn’t get back soon.

It doesn’t help that his eleven year old daughter, Piper, loves it in Idaho. For once, he’s not working fifteen hour days, and he and Piper feel like a family. The only nuisance in their Idaho life is the guest in cabin number four. The beautiful woman from Boston has charmed Piper and, for some reason, seems as eager to buy the campground as Nate is to unload it.

As Freya and Nate build a friendship, things start to heat up in more ways than one.

Time Off for Good Behaviour

This effervescent debut novel will strike a chord with every woman who has ever been tempted to give her life an extrme makeover. Wendy Markham, author of ‘Slightly Single.’

Maybe Baby

Dana Wiley’s True Confessions Or How Did I Get into This Mess? My mother’s being held by kidnappers, and only Nick Maybe, the man I left at the altar six years ago, knows how to find the ransom a big, smelly, flightless parrot. Manhattan isn’t exactly ideal for wildlife unless you’re talking about me and Nick. How can a man I haven’t seen in six years make me so crazy in all meanings of the word? So the bird’s worth a quarter million, and it turns out we’re not the only ones who want it. Great. And Nick keeps looking at me with those eyes and kissing me with those lips…
Oh, what the hell. There isn’t a statute of limitations on love. Is there?

Ex and the Single Girl

DESCRIPTION: Portia Fallon calls it PTE or the Penis Teflon Effect. It’s the way all the women in her family deflect men like ping pong balls. No man has ever ‘stuck’ with a Fallon woman for more than two years, and Portia has nearly surpassed that record. Until her live in boyfriend dumps her. Now, everyone from her mother Mags to Auntie Vera and Grandma Bev is convinced that Portia must have sex with a temporary man. Enter Ian Beckett, a sexy, smart, and unsuspecting British novelist, who’s visiting her small town of Truly, Georgia, for the summer. Then enter once again Portia’s ex beau, who’s decided to fight to win her back. Now Portia faces a slippery decision: Which of these men has the right stuff to make a commitment stick?

The Comeback Kiss

Eleven years after taking Tessa Jones’ car and her virginity and skipping town, Dermot Finnegan’s guilt gets the best of him. Planning on quietly returning Tessa’s car, Finn’s quiet exit from town is ruined when he becomes a town hero.

The Fortune Quilt

Carly McKay’s life is going just fine until she produces a television piece on psychic quilt maker Brandywine Seaver and receives a quilt with an enigmatic reading telling her that everything is about to change. And it does. She loses her job and her best friend who proclaims his unrequited love for her. And her mother, who deserted the family seventeen years ago, returns, sending Carly into a serious tilt. Convinced it’s the quilt’s fault, Carly races down to the small artists’ community of Bilby, Arizona, to confront its maker, and ends up renting a cabin from her. Carly even starts to enjoy her reimagined life, until her old life comes calling. Now Carly has to decide what parts of each world she wants to patchwork in…
and how much she’s willing to leave to fate.

A Little Ray of Sunshine

Emmy James is not the kind of girl who attracts angels. In fact, after she sent her life into a nosedive six years ago, she’s tried to attract as little as possible attention, people, or responsibility. She skips from town to town in an Airstream trailer, working odd jobs and keeping to herself until a sudden whim lets her know it’s time to move again.

And this works just fine, until the day two unexpected visitors show up at the New Jersey trailer park she calls home. One is a childhood friend with news: her mother and his father are getting married, and they want EJ to be there. The other is a sweet but odd woman named Jess, who says she’s an angel specializing in cosmic relationship mending…
and blueberry pancakes. Jess doesn’t think it’s any coincidence that this is all happening at once, but EJ would rather run herself over with her own Airstream before reconnecting with her neglectful, self absorbed mother. When she wakes up to find her trailer cruising down the highway with a determined angel at the wheel, however, EJ realizes that sometimes what you want and what the Universe intends for you can be two very different things…

Dogs and Goddesses

Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She’s reluctantly inherited her grandmother s coffee shop, but it s not long before she s brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her life with an exasperating college professor. Stuart is a consummate mistress of her craft. Romantic Times BOOKreviews And then there s Daisy, a Web code writer, and her hyperactive Jack Russell, Bailey. Her tightly wound world spins out of control when she discovers the chaos within and meets a mysterious dog trainer whose teaching style is definitely hands on. Rich has a knack for creating memorable characters. Romance Reader at Heart Finally there s Shar, professor of ancient history at Summerville College, who wakes up one morning to find her neurotic dachshund, Wolfie, snarling at an implacable god sitting at her kitchen table, the first thing in her life she hasn t been able to footnote. Crusie is a master of fast paced witty dialogue. Seattle Times What on earth is going on in this unearthly little town? It s up to Abby, Daisy, and Shar to find out before an ancient goddess takes over southern Ohio, and they all end up in the apocalyptic doghouse…