Patricia Gaffney Books In Order

Wyckerley Trilogy Books In Order

  1. To Love and to Cherish (1995)
  2. To Have and to Hold (1995)
  3. Forever and Ever (1996)

Novels

  1. Fortune’s Lady (1989)
  2. Sweet Treason (1989)
  3. Lily (1991)
  4. Another Eden (1992)
  5. Thief of Hearts (1992)
  6. Sweet Everlasting (1993)
  7. Crooked Hearts (1994)
  8. Wild at Heart (1997)
  9. Outlaw in Paradise (1997)
  10. The Saving Graces (1999)
  11. Circle of Three (2000)
  12. Flight Lessons (2002)
  13. The Goodbye Summer (2004)
  14. Mad Dash (2007)

Omnibus

  1. The Saving Graces / Circle of Three / Flight Lessons (2004)
  2. The Lost (2009)
  3. The Unquiet (2011)

Collections

  1. The Other Side (2010)

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Patricia Gaffney Books Overview

To Love and to Cherish

When Anne Verlaine’s hellish marriage appears to be ended by the disappearance of her drinking, carousing husband, she turns to Christy, the handsome vicar of All Saints Church in Wyckerley, for solace but longs for a great deal more.

To Have and to Hold

After spending years in prison for a crime she did not commit, Rachel Wade accepts the proposal of cynical Sebastian Verlaine, Viscount D’Aubrey, who offers her parole in exchange for becoming his mistress.

Forever and Ever

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Saving Graces and Flight Lessons a simply glorious Victorian novel now reissued in a beautiful trade edition.

Fortune’s Lady

Falling in love with a traitor’s daughter, Cassandra Merlin, at first sight, zealous patriot Riordan realizes that she is the key to stopping a plot against the king’s life and that she has her own reasons for aiding the cause.

Lily

Born a lady, Lily Trehearne now lives a life of backbreaking drudgery, poverty, and complete obedience to the lord of Darkstone Manor, but despite her despair, she discovers tempestuous passion in his arms, while he learns of her deep, dark secrets.

Another Eden

Tired of lying to protect the reputation of her wealthy and brutal husband, Sara Cochrane falls easily for Alex McKie and embarks upon a forbidden love affair.

Sweet Everlasting

Shattered by a devastating secret, shy Carrie Wiggins flees from Wayne’s Crossings’s cruel villagers and sets up house in the mountains, where she encounters handsome Tyler Wilkes, an aristocrat who has also turned his back on society.

Crooked Hearts

On the heels of the phenomenal success of The Saving Graces and the blockbuster reissue of Sweet Everlasting comes another sure thing this special reissue of Patricia Gaffney’s wildly sexy and deliciously witty historical romance of love and larceny. ‘MARVELOUS…
It’s been a long time since I read a book this wonderful.’ New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston

Wild at Heart

They called him ‘the lost man.’ Raised in the woods, without speech, without civilization, he was beautifully, wonderfully wild. But only one woman looked beyond the wildness to see the man. ‘Delightfully different…
brims with laughter and passion.’ Literary Times ‘With a lyrical voice and keen wit, Patricia Gaffney weaves compelling stories that echo in the human heart.’ Nora Roberts

Outlaw in Paradise

Patricia Gaffney captivated millions of readers with her New York Times bestseller The Saving Graces. Now she sweeps readers into a world of danger and desire, where a woman of courage and a man of mystery risk everything in the name of love…
As the owner of a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, Cady McGill is surviving in a man’s world. She can’t afford to let her guard down for anyone especially the man in black who arrives out of nowhere to arouse her suspicions…
and her senses. He calls himself Jesse Gault an achingly attractive stranger with guns on his hips and a mocking smile on his lips. But Cady has seen her share of swindlers, and she knows that Gault’s charms are as deceptive as his name. Yet even as sudden gunfire blazes, desire flares in Cady’s heart. Now she must fight her own deepest feelings as a man who is not what he seems awakens a tender, abiding passion that can only be the real thing.

The Saving Graces

Friendship sustains and enriches women’s lives in way’s no romantic or family relationship ever can. A source of solace, support, and nourishment, it is a tie that powerfully connects woman to woman in unforgettable, joyous, sometimes painful ways. In this wonderfully warm, humorous, and moving novel, Patricia Gaffney paints a rich portrait of this delicate yet resilient bond through the lives of four charming. vividly real women. For ten years, Emma, Rudy, Lee. and Isabel have shared a deep affection that has helped them deal with husbands, lovers, careers, children the ebb and flow of expectations and disappointments common to us all. Calling themselves The Saving Graces, the quartet is united by understanding, honesty, and acceptance an ephemeral connection that has grown stronger as the years go by…
Emma, a sharp tongued. soft hearted skeptic, doesn’t believe in love until she meets the one man she can’t have. For her, The Saving Graces are fall breakers extraordinaire. She believes that ‘bad news doesn’t hurt as much if you hear it in good company.’A beauty with an extraordinary gift for love and a shaky, dysfunctional past, Rudy is desperately trying to hold on to her deeply troubled marriage. She’s not sure where she’d be without The Saving Graces. ‘I don’t know why my friends bother with me, I’m so high maintenance. I would run if I saw me coming. But they’re always so patient and supportive.’Lee, whom they all are sure is ‘the normal one,’ longs for a baby. But her overwhelming desire for motherhood threatens to destroy an idyllic marriage. The Saving Graces are the sounding board on which she unburdens her hopes and fears. ‘I know I’m consumed by our infertility, and that’s nor fair to Henry…
. He says I blame everything that’s wrong with my whole life, on the fact that we can’t have children. It’s true, I know.I’m driving him away.’Isabel, the oldest, is a survivor whose wisdom and strength were forged by the worst trials life can offer. Divorced and free, she’s falling for her single, attractive neighbor a man she’s sure must be gay. Hers is the guiding insight that propels and grounds The Saving Graces. ‘We’re all productive, tolerably sane, functioning adults, we Graces, with no more emotional baggage well, except for Rudy than you would expect in a random sampling of aging yuppie women. And yet our childhoods were disasters. Occasionally we four play the intriguing What keeps us together?’ game, and the fact that we all survived our childhoods is mentioned early and often.’Though these sisters of the heart and soul have seen it all, talked through it all, Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel will not be prepared for a crisis of astounding proportions that will put their love, loyalty, and courage to the ultimate test. Captivating from first page to last, this mesmerizing story illuminates the emotional links that define and join us as women. While men, jobs, and crises may come and go, nothing lasts like true friendship. Funny, inspirational, joyous, and oh so true, The Saving Graces is a novel no reader will forget a story to be passed from friend to friend.

Circle of Three

Few authors can capture with such grace and power the spirit and strength of women and the complexities of their relationships as Patricia Gaffney. Her sensational national bestseller, The Saving Graces, won the hearts of readers everywhere and propelled her into the first ranks of contemporary women writers with its vivid characterizations and brilliant depiction of the delicate yet resilient bonds of female friendship. Now this gifted writer turns inward to illuminate the silken bonds of family in Circle of Three. Through the interconnected lives of three generations of women in a small town in rural Virginia, this poignant, memorable novel reveals the layers of tradition and responsibility, commitment and passion these women share.’Can grief last for a person’s whole life?’ That is the question Carrie struggles to answer after the sudden death of her husband. For Carrie, grief and guilt are twofold: Though she mourns her husband, she also mourns the death of their love an emotional erosion that occurred long before her husband’s heart gave out. Struggling to go on, to support her vivacious, loving fifteen year old daughter, Carrie slowly shakes off the sorrow and depression that embrace her and begins a new life. Complicating matters is Carrie’s mother, Dana, an industrious, snobbish, yet sympathetic woman who tries to do what’s best for herself and, unfortunately, for Carrie as well. It was fear of her mother’s disapproval that drove Carrie away from her unforgotten first love, the soulful, passionate Jess, who has now re entered her life. Little does Carrie realize that her mother suffers miseries of her own. For Dana life is still as mysterious as it was in early youth. Like her only daughter, Dana has lived within the confines of a silent marriage, and she, too, mourns a painful loss the disintegration of her relationship with Carrie. ‘I’d give anything for the closeness we used to have. I love my daughter more than anyone else on this earth, but she won’t let me in.’At the end point of these two generations is Ruth, who silently copes with a double tragedy of her own, the loss of what she can never know a real relationship with her father and the emotional abandonment of her mother. ‘She’s still got me, but she’s about half the mother I used to have. When Dad died I lost him and part of her. I’m almost an orphan.’ A precocious girl quivering on the brink of womanhood, she is eager to discover who she is and what life holds, even if that knowledge will draw her away from the people she loves. Through their stories, Patricia Gaffney explores the dichotomies inherent in all women’s relationships the tears and laughter, despair and hope, misunderstanding and compassion, anger and love that sometimes divide them yet ultimately bind them together. Wise, moving, and heartbreakingly real, Circle of Three offers women of all ages a deeper understanding of each other, of themselves, and of the perplexing and invigorating magic that is life itself.

Flight Lessons

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Saving Graces and Circle of Three comes the poignant story of two women struggling to come to terms with the past that haunts them both. For sixteen years Anna has studiously avoided her Aunt Rose. Exchanging cards at holiday time that’s as far as Anna is willing to go with the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world. That love died the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother Rose’s own fatally ill sister and Anna can’t forgive or forget. Years have passed since she’s been back to her hometown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Rose still runs the aging family restaurant, the Bella Sorella. Anna has built a life elsewhere with a job she likes and a man she loves. Or so she thought. The problem, or one of them, was that circumstances had split her life down the middle. She was always of two minds, the hopeful half versus the skeptic, optimist against pessimist. Or maybe it had evened out and she was now a relativist, a contingency artist. Either way, it didn’t help that at this late date a theme was taking shape a motif or whatever you wanted to call it, a pattern consisting of Anna walking in on trusted loved ones in bed with each other. Anna clearly needs an escape, but the only place for her to go is home: to the family, to the restaurant, to Rose, who has been trying for more than a decade to regain Anna’s trust. And right now Rose needs her more than ever. Feelings between the two women remain as chilly as ever, even in the steamy kitchen of the Bella Sorella, where values clash and generations collide and outside it, where their personal lives become entangled in surprising ways. Anna is a reluctant partner in this intricate dance of forgiveness and reconciliation, insisting that her stay is only temporary. Her plan is to leave a second time, as soon as the restaurant is back on its feet and her own hurt is healed. But her determination to remain unaffected by Rose’s longing to undo the past and create a future blinds Anna to a chance for human connection and she almost fails to recognize true love, even when it reaches in and grabs her by the heart. Touching, funny, poignant, and wise,Flight Lessons is a moving story of truth and loyalty, of the bonds that shape and sustain us and, ultimately, uplift us. Patricia Gaffney once again delivers a story told with grace and warmth, filled with the recognition of self and reminding us that there’s no place like home.

The Goodbye Summer

The New York Times bestselling author of the much beloved The Saving Graces is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and learning to live a little. How much change can one summer bring? If you’re Caddie Winger thirty two years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children one summer can make the whole world look different. Caddie’s mother died when she was nine, and her grandmother raised her. Now their roles are reversed, and it’s Caddie who takes care of Nana. When her grandmother breaks a leg and insists on going into a convalescent home, Caddie finds herself being pulled out of her comfy, self made nest. Living alone for the first time since college, she uncovers some startling truths from her past. Jolted, she looks at the world with new eyes and begins to take charge of her future. As she makes a new best friend, takes risks she never dreamed she could, and navigates the depths and shallows of true love and devastating heartbreak, Caddie learns how to trust other people and, ultimately, how to trust herself. Wise, moving and reassuringly real, The Goodbye Summer offers us a deeper understanding of the perplexing and invigorating magic that is life itself. Performed by Jan Maxwell

Mad Dash

The poor thing was cold and trembling, abandoned on their front doorstep. Dash, impulsive as always, decides on the spot that they should keep it. But her husband, Andrew, thinks it’s the craziest thing he s ever heard. A fight over a scruffy little dog doesn t seem like much of a reason to walk out on your husband of twenty years but the spat over the puppy is just the last of many straws.

Dash is so tired of the faculty parties at Mason Dixon College that Andrew insists they attend even though he won t mingle with his colleagues, tired of his constant fretting over illnesses he doesn t have, tired of the glass of warm milk he must have every night before bed. Why can t he see that with her mother gone and their daughter off at college, Dash needs something more?

Now, living on her own for the first time in years, Dash can do whatever she wants…
if only she could figure out what that is. But every time she starts making plans for the future, she finds herself thinking about the past remembering the mother she s lost, her daughter s childhood, and the husband she isn t entirely sure she wants to leave behind…
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By turns poignant and hilarious often on the same page Mad Dash is a novel about the funny ways love has of catching up to us despite our most irrational efforts to leave it behind.

The Lost

Mike and Mandy August planned to have kids, but only gave birth. To a lie!One so well guarded, they almost believe it themselves. Now they live with their two terrific kids in a big white colonial with a tennis court and a mortgage. Suddenly, it all starts to fall apart. And the secret they ve harbored for a dozen years, threatens to rip them apart. What are they hiding? Or protecting? The questions propel Mike August on a strange odyssey, from Connecticut to Los Angeles, to San Francisco, and into the mountains of Colorado. The answers, and the incredible scheme Mike devises make up the plot of this gripping first novel. It is a sensitive, exciting story of what can happen to a decent family when tragedy strikes, secrets revealed and lives peeled apart, for all the world to see. It is a beautifully written book. But more than that, it is a story that will take you beyond its words, and into the lives of its sharply drawn characters.

The Unquiet

Five New York Times bestselling authors five superlative stories. From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death. From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper’s solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word…
wish. From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance. From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow’s only salvation. From Mary Kay McComas: A young ghost eases his brother’s pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children’s books.

The Other Side

Five New York Times bestselling authors cross over to a realm where suspense, desire, and love have no bounds. J.D. Robb: Lieutenant Eve Dallas has always sought justice for the dead, but now, a victim will seek her own vengeance through Eve. Mary Blayney: An earl and his countess struggle to understand one another, until they spend a day in each other’s shoes and bodies. Patricia Gaffney: To prove her ancestral home is haunted, a woman hires a spirit investigator, but they end up debunking the mystery of love. Ruth Ryan Langan: A couple who dies in a car accident struggler to stay in their daughter’s life to save her from the wrong man. Mary Kay McComas: A practical woman is faced with the most impractical ghosts, who can’t rest in peace until they find what they have lost.

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