Shirley Hailstock: 31 books

Elizabeth Gregory's heart is as cold as the snow falling on the nation's capital. Three years ago, her life went on hold when a fatal accident took her only sister on Christmas Eve. That accident involved James Hill, Elizabeth's fiancé. Since then, she makes the rounds of holiday parties but her...

A freak accident changed the course of tennis player Allie Underwood’s life. Two years in recuperation, she’s finally back on her feet, but her plans of opening a tennis academy died with the accident. Then Allie encounters architect Peter Barrett who literally pulls the rug out from under her....

~~Under the Sheets Robyn and Grant Richards’ happily ever after was short lived. He is captured and held prisoner in Lebanon and her government-coerced testimony against a crime network whisked her into Witness Protection as Brooke Johnson. Five years later a critical accident involving Brooke’s...

Darwin L. Clarence III, called Dancey since he was in nursery school, has eaten his favorite sandwich for lunch every day for years - peanut butter and jelly. But his parents are moving to another planet, one where they don't grow peanuts or strawberries. These are Dancey's favorites. Leaving them...

Elizabeth Gregory's world fell apart one Christmas, and she never wants to see the man who caused it -- her ex-fiance, James Hill again. He might be boy-wonder to the investment world, but to her he's the man involved in her sister's death. Yet as the holiday season happily paints the streets in the...

You never know what you'll find when you pull down a wall. But Eleanora Sloan was unprepared for the mahogany box and its unusual contents as she worked on her home in Tennessee. And she never thought it would lead her to Blythe Cove Manor on Martha's Vineyard. Drew McAdams is practically a native...

This is a short story-- ~~Nancy Emerson is back in Craggs Station. She's not a prodigal daughter after being responsible for the death of the town's favorite son, but she needs closure and Craggs Station is the only place she'll find it. When she discovers a plate of oatmeal-raisin cookies...

~Pairing Nefertiti Kincaid (called Never by everyone) with Averal Ballantine is like pouring gasoline on a raging fire. Fiercely loyal Information Technology Director, Never, is an explosion waiting to happen. Since her company merged with a larger pharmaceutical magnate, she’s watched her friends...

Public Relations consultant, Serena Coleman, works with the rich and famous. However, she's been unable to get her fiancé to stay put long enough to say I do! But suddenly he's there to stay. And now she has misgivings about their future together. Peter Lawrence always has his suitcase packed...

What would you call surviving a lightning strike? Michaela Manfred‑Smith did just that. But what happened next would be considered a gift by most. For Michaela, it felt like a curse. The owner of a world‑class art gallery could lose her reputation if her secret is discovered. Then famous artist,...

Ethan Pollack thinks of Blythe Cove Manor as his second home and Blythe is second mother. A career navy officer, Ethan never returns to Martha's Vineyard without a gift for Blythe. However, he didn't know there was anything unusual about the obsidian cat he bought in Japan. Then he sees a woman in...

When you’re sitting on top of the world, You only have two decisions to make. Do you fall to the left or the right? Erika St. James has seen both the best of life and the worst of it. Losing the only parent who loved her unconditionally when she was twelve, she fled to a man...

Sandra Rutledge has been in front of cameras most of her life. She longs for the quiet existence of a university professor. A PhD candidate in mathematics, she’s at the family cabin in the Pocono Mountains when she finds Wyatt Randolph, the missing junior senator from Pennsylvania, bleeding to death...

Aurora Alexander found her doppelganger in the form of talk show hostess Marsha Chambers. Yet the two of them couldn’t be further apart in personality. Aurora, a trained psychologist, supports her mother’s nursing home expenses through celebrity impersonation. Following a less than stellar interview...