Charlotte Hughes Books In Order

Kate Holly Books In Publication Order

  1. What Looks Like Crazy (2008)
  2. Nutcase (2009)
  3. High Anxiety (2009)

Full/Max Holt Books In Publication Order

  1. Full House (1981)
  2. Full Tilt (2002)
  3. Full Speed (2003)
  4. Full Blast (2004)
  5. Full Bloom (2005)
  6. Full Scoop (2006)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Too Many Husbands (1986)
  2. Straight Shootin’ Lady (1987)
  3. Travelin’ Man (1988)
  4. Sweet Misery (1988)
  5. Tigress (1989)
  6. Scoundrel (1989)
  7. Private Eyes (1990)
  8. Restless Nights (1990)
  9. Louisiana Lovin’ (1990)
  10. Tough Guy, Savvy Lady (1991)
  11. The Lady and the Cowboy (1991)
  12. Island Rogue (1992)
  13. Rascal (1992)
  14. The Incredible Hunk (1993)
  15. Kissed By A Rogue (1993)
  16. The Devil and Miss Goody-Two Shoes (1994)
  17. The Cop and the Mother-to-Be (1994)
  18. Husband Wanted (1995)
  19. Ready-Made Family (1995)
  20. Tall, Dark and Bad (1996)
  21. Belated Bride (1996)
  22. And After That, the Dark (1997)
  23. Valley of the Shadow (1998)
  24. Just Married Again (1998)
  25. The Last Southern Belle (1998)
  26. Night Kills (1998)
  27. A New Attitude (2001)
  28. Hot Shot (2002)
  29. Millionaire CopMom-To-Be (2002)
  30. Pregnant! (2009)
  31. See Bride Run! (2014)
  32. Welcome to Temptation (2015)
  33. Miss Goody Two-Shoes (2015)

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Charlotte Hughes Books Overview

What Looks Like Crazy

She’s had hit after hit with Janet Evanovich. Now this New York Times bestselling author begins a series that readers will go crazy for. Psychologist Kate Holly’s own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She’s divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has an eccentric secretary, her mother and aunt have erected a vaguely sexual sculpture in her front yard, and her psychiatrist ex boyfriend won’t stop calling to find out what color panties she’s wearing. Now, Kate’s being bombarded with mysterious threats, and the only person who can help her is the one man who always makes her lose her mind and heart.

Nutcase

Readers will go nuts for the new Kate Holly novel. Psychologist Kate Holly is about to get evicted from her office, and her best option may be to share space with her jacuzzi loving ex boyfriend, Dr. Thad Glazer. That’s not going to help her patch things up with her firefighter ex husband. With her oddball patients, meddling mother, and eccentric secretary thrown into the mix not to mention a spree of suspicious fires will Kate put her life back together or wind up in a padded cell?

High Anxiety

Readers will go crazy for the latest Kate Holly case…
Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match Kate’s more issues than a lifetime subscription to Psychology Today.

Full House

Filled with Evanovich’s trademark style and wit, Full House is romantic suspense with a twist…
Her life was pleasant, proper, and predictable until he showed up and trouble moved in…
Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he’s so artfully avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. They have nothing in common. To his horror, Nick is fascinated and irresistibly attracted. When Billie generously offers to share her home with Nick’s crazy cousin Deedee for a while, Nick finds himself visiting often. And while each is slowly seduced by the other’s charms, and both are wildly encouraged by devious Deedee, Billie and Nick find out that what they have in common is most important of all. But neither one knows that danger is lurking where they least expect it and a killer is closing in on them. Sneak peek of Visions of Sugar Plums inside!

Full Tilt

He lives life in the fast lane and she’s along for the ride-with no brakes…
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Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie’s life gets shaken up. Max claims he’s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana’s now taking his shots in the political ring. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime-and what Jamie gets is a story that’s taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper, and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway could it get any more romantic-or dangerous? Max and Jamie are betting their lives on a long shot.

Full Speed

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they’ve taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross eyed way of looking at life. Jamie and Max have intense chemistry even though they drive each other crazy. Max thinks Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinks Max is the most annoyingly sexy, mysterious man she’s ever met. She knows she should stay away from him. But boy, oh boy, do the sparks fly when they get together. Jamie is a newspaper owner from a small southern town. And in Full Speed, she’s after the story of a lifetime. Max Holt is right in the middle of that story, and so Jamie tracks down the millionaire playboy, forcing him to take her on as partner. What follows is a story of a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog called Fleas, a wise cracking computer genius, and lots of love in the fast lane. Not to mention plenty of steamy action between Jamie and Max.

So have fun with Full Speed. We’re going to sign off now and get back to creating more romantic adventures between Jamie Swift and Max Holt. Enjoy and happy reading!

Janet and Charlotte

Full Blast

The next in the hot new series featuring Max Holt and Jamie Swift filled with even more fast paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, and non stop hilarityThis time the town of Beaumont, South Carolina, is going to hell in a handbasket. It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads section. Suddenly, the town gets ‘all sexed up.’ The local Chinese food joint starts creating risque fortune cookies. A trashy lingerie shop opens. The bakery starts making po*rnographic pastries. Everyone gets the idea that sex sells. But someone has more sinister objectives. Several ‘unlikeable’ towsnfolk end up dead. And the key to the murders is connected to Jamie’s newspaper especially the personal ads. Enlisting the help of the ever so sexy Max Holt, Jamie and Max have to battle raging hormones, a heat wave, a murderous villain, and non stop attraction for each other in a novel where it’s not just the air conditioners going Full Blast!

Full Bloom

Dear Reader,The temperature’s on ‘sizzle’ again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother’s B&B and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney. According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed & Breakfast needs if it’s hosting millionaire Max Holt’s upcoming wedding! If rumors of a naughty, prank playing ghost aren’t stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived with an eye on Annie and her master suite. Wes Bridges is all leather and denim, sporting a two day beard, straddling a Harley, and sending the B&B’s testosterone level through the roof. Annie’s cool demeanor may be dropping as fast as Wes’s jeans, but leave it to her missing ex husband to dampen the passion! Turns out someone has done him in, and all evidence points to Annie! Wrapped up in a murder plot, Annie must find the killer, save her own neck, and get back to where she was wrapped up in Wes’s strong loving arms…
We guarantee that you’re going to have as much fun reading Full Bloom as we had writing it! Even if we were surprised by the ending! And you won’t want to miss the hair raising shenanigans when Fleas, the hound dog, meets the most cantankerous, snooty, bad tempered, twenty two pound orange cat…
. Janet and Charlotte

Full Scoop

Dear Reader:

There’s a whole lot of trouble going on in Beaumont, South Carolina. According to resident psychic slash astrologer, Destiny Moultrie, Mercury s in retrograde; Venus is in the seventh house, and the combination has turned Cupid wacko! Chaos rules as tempers flare and lust runs rampant. Newlyweds Max Holt and Jamie Swift Holt are trying to make a baby, but their recently purchased antebellum mansion is under renovation and filled with feuding contractors. Vera has a crush on her new mailman, and is bent on looking ten years younger. Destiny is marked for marriage by the changing planets, and she s running for her life as the local redneck and bait shop owner is determined to make her his. Meanwhile, local pediatrician Maggie Davenport has considerably bigger problems now that her wild girl past has caught up in the form of an ex boyfriend and jailbird who just flew the coop and is determined to track her and her daughter down. If he doesn t expose her secrets, there s a good chance Jamie s editor, intent on getting the Full Scoop, will. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection; but the new danger is the wild attraction he and Maggie share. Fleas the hound dog is experiencing his first crush on Maggie s adorable and alluring um pygmy goat? Add to that an Elvis convention and a local root doctor and hoodoo practitioner who decides it s time she take charge; only to have one of her spells backfire, and you ve got a gut busting, laugh out loud story we hope you won t forget!

It s just another wild ride in the town we love to write about, and the characters we can t get enough of. So kick off your shoes, sit back, and enjoy a Full Scoop of fun, adventure, and romance.

Janet and Charlotte

Kissed By A Rogue

Convinced that sweet talking scoundrel Cord Buford only wants a fling, Dr. Billie Foster struggles to resist his sizzling advances, but when tragedy brings them together, Billie discovers that she can tame his wild heart.

Ready-Made Family

Wanting nothing more than a good wife and mother for his children, Riley Locke finds her in unexpected ways when beautiful spitfire Savannah Day arrives on his doorstep, and a marriage of convenience becomes one of unrivaled passion.

And After That, the Dark

Dear Readers:

Before I made my name as a comedy writer, I wrote three award winning mysteries. I am thrilled to announce that Avon Books is republishing these books, one of them, And After That, the Dark.

As a teenager, Emily Wilkop witnessed a brutal murder. Although she escaped, she could never be certain whether the killer actually saw her. So, fearing for herself and her family, she kept silent, even when the murderer was arrested and charged with another crime.

Now Emily is grown, trying to build a life of security for her adopted daughter, and struggling with her feelings for an ex big city cop who is seeking a new life as well. But the secret Emily has so carefully guarded for fifteen years has come back to haunt her when the killer is released from prison; and Emily discovers someone is out to scare her…
to death.

For those of you who enjoy psychological thrillers, this book should offer you that and more. I know first hand because writing some of the scenes late in the night frightened me.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Charlotte Hughes

Valley of the Shadow

From award winning author Charlotte Hughes, a classic tale of romantic suspense finally available again. Crime reporter Meg Gentry returns to her hometown where she lands a job at the local paper. But the town’s tranquillity is shattered by the suicide of Meg s predecessor and the unearthed skeleton of an unidentified woman who, as the evidence indicates, was murdered.

Night Kills

Dear Readers: Although I’ve now spent several years writing humor, Night Kills, first released by Avon Books in 1998, is sure to send chills up your spine. It certainly gave me a bad case of the heebie jeebies as I wrote the book in the loft of our house; my children thought it was great fun to slip into the room while I was deeply involved in a particularly scary scene and tap me on the shoulder. When Lee Cates’s sister is brutally murdered, all evidence points to the woman’s adoptive son, a troubled seventeen year old. That is, until a handsome outsider, who’d spent that fatal night with the good time girl, is arrested. Lee is determined to prove her nephew’s innocence, even though she finds herself wildly attracted to the handsome suspect who seems bent on buying the town’s loyalty. Rashly probing into the murder, the blindly loyal Lee learns that not everybody in small town Comfrey, South Carolina, loved her fast living sister. As Lee continues to probe she realizes maybe too late that her sister’s secret may lead to her own death. So sit back and enjoy the spine tingling story. I hope you’ll write and let me know what you think. Charlotte Hughes

Hot Shot

Detective Franke Daniels hates her life well, what’s left of it. After a romance with the wrong man goes bad, the tough Atlanta police detective finds herself ‘transferred’ to Nowhere, U.S.A., Purdyville, South Carolina, is tantamount to a sentence of death by boredom for the street smart chain smoking cop. The crime rate here is beyond low…
Almost as low as Frankie’s self esteem. When Frankie arrives to find her rental home in flames, she proceeds to chew out one of the locals only to realize she’s just told off her new boss, the annoyingly gorgeous and smug Sheriff Matt Webber. But Matt is more intrigued than angry at his new deputy. He suspects life in Purdyville is going to get very interesting indeed, especially after he watches her take down the local tough guy in two seconds flat. Even the crime rate seems to have risen to the occasion. But underneath that tough cookie exterior: Matt’s pretty sure Frankie’s got a soft spot…
he just hopes it’s for him.

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