Haywood Smith Books In Order

Red Hat Club Books In Order

  1. The Red Hat Club (2003)
  2. The Red Hat Club Rides Again (2005)
  3. Wedding Belles (2008)

Novels

  1. Shadows in Velvet (1996)
  2. Secrets in Satin (1997)
  3. Damask Rose (1998)
  4. Dangerous Gifts (1999)
  5. Highland Princess (2000)
  6. Border Lord (2001)
  7. Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch (2002)
  8. Ladies of the Lake (2009)
  9. Waking Up In Dixie (2010)
  10. Wife-in-Law (2011)
  11. Out of Warranty (2013)
  12. Queen Bee Goes Home Again (2014)

Non fiction

  1. The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law (2009)

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Haywood Smith Books Overview

The Red Hat Club

Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda five women who’ve been best friends through thirty years since high school. Sit in when they don their red hats and purple outfits to join Atlanta’s Ladies Who Lunch for a delicious monthly serving of racy jokes, iced tea and chicken salad, baskets of sweet rolls, the latest Buckhead gossip, and most of all lively support and caring through the ups and downs of their lives. When Diane discovers her banker husband has a condo with mistress that he bought with their retirement funds, the Red Hats swing into action and hang him with his own rope in a story that serves up laughter, friendship, revenge, high school memories, long lost loves, a suburban dominatrix, and plenty of white wine and junk food. From the 1960s to the present, The Red Hat Club is a funny, unforgettable novel that shows the power women can find when they accept and support each other.

The Red Hat Club Rides Again

Put on your red hats and plenty of attitude, and spend a hilarious, heartwarming read with five fabulous women…
. The Red Hat Club is back, in rare form. When Pru Bonner, black sheep of the group, falls off the wagon so hard it shakes Diane, Linda, SuSu, Teeny, and Georgia’s world, ‘the girls’ stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships. Laughter is spiced with secrets, surprises, and pitfalls aplenty, including a midlife pregnancy test, a fight for life, the perils of Internet dating, an all expense paid plastic surgery cruise, and a surprise celebration that proves it’s never too late for love. As in The Red Hat Club, these irrepressible hero*ines face the challenges of friendship in sickness and in health, with heart and indomitable humor. So join the Red Hat Club and remember that age is all in your head, calories should always be in chewable form Diet Coke with chocolate clairs!, and that when all else fails, your Red Hat Club will see you through. This novel has not been authorized or endorsed by the Red Hat Society.

Wedding Belles

The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club fearlessly takes on mothers and daughters, wedding madness, and midlife passion in this frank, funny, and fabulous new novel. Georgia, Linda, Diane, Teeny, and Pru have been best friends since high school, and never have they needed one another more. Georgia’s precious twenty eight year old daughter, Callie, has gone and gotten engaged. Usually this would be cause for celebration. After all, this is the South, where dreams of white dresses and wedding bells are as important as finding the perfect hat. But Callie s intended groom just happens to be a man they went to high school and college with: Wild Man Wade! These women know more about the groom than the bride does. His drunken shenanigans. His wild oats. And all of his conquests as well as his mistakes. They can imagine him in the most inappropriate of circumstances, but not as a son in law! With absolutely hilarious Southern observances and dead on wit about mothers, daughters, marriage, and families, Wedding Belles will have you laughing and crying whether you live above or below the Mason Dixon line.

Secrets in Satin

He thought she was as cold as ice. With her pale face and black mourning gown, Elizabeth, Countess of Ravenwold, was completely emotionless as she stood over the body of her dead husband. But Edward Garrett, Viscount Creighton, had no idea of the passion behind her mask of ice or the dark secrets hidden in her guarded heart. She thought he was a careless rogue. Garrett’s reputation preceded him, so Elizabeth hardened herself against his ruthless charms. But when a royal command forced her to marry the knave, their lives were drawn together into a dangerous game of intrigue…
and a passionate contest of wills. Amid the turmoil of a dying monarchy, Garrett and Elizabeth discovered a love haunted by the past and challenged by an uncertain future. But can this love survive, or will it be wrenched away by a twist of fate…
or the hand of a king?

Highland Princess

SHE REFUSED TO BE ANY MAN’S PRIZE The only sister to twelve warrior brothers, Princess Bera is more at home on the battlefield than at the hearth. Her heart and heritage lie with her Scottish clan’s castle Pitlanric, now under threat from a powerful rival warlord. With her brothers imprisoned in their enemy’s dungeons, Bera makes a daring bid to free them, disguising herself to enter the enemy’s lair only to discover a dangerous and unexpected foe: a golden haired knight of iron and ice, so cold she cannot fathom how he heats her blood to molten desire. HE WAS DETERMINED TO REAP HIS REWARD A mercenary hired to take Pitlanric for his employer, Curran fights the battle instincts that warn him to beware of this mysterious woman, yet his blood pounds with the need to possess her. Soon, passion will expose their deepest secrets in a world where trust can be a double edged sword. Bera will give him her body, but Curran wants her heart. To win it, he must challenge a princess to her destiny…
and a love to its greatest battle. TOGETHER THEY DISCOVERED A GIFT GREATER THAN RICHES…

Border Lord

Haywood DESCRIPTION: Bast*ard son of an English father and Scots mother, Duncan Maxwell is as untamed as the Scottish borderlands he defends. Proud and stubborn, he has a fierce hatred for his father’s kin, but with seven motherless children to feed, he can’t afford to turn away the half drowned English woman brought to his doorstep. Her fine rings and clothes tell this powerful, fearsome warrior that she will ransom well. He doesn’t expect this tart, no nonsense female to take over his household, open her arms to his children, and fuel warring emotions within his own heart. Catherine Armstrong survives a murderous plot and shipwreck only to become hostage to the notorious Black Bast*ard of the Scottish Western March, a legendary outlaw who makes no secret of his hatred for anything English. She’s determined to protect her family from extortion, but her handsome, compelling captor awakens the passion she has so long denied. Despite the whispers that he brings doom to any woman who dares to love him, Duncan Maxwell captures her heart. Yet Duncan is ruled by dangerous torment, and obsessed with the past she has unwittingly brought back into his life. But in this turbulent country where passion rages as wild as the wind over the moors, land and love are meant to be fought for…
and won.

Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch

Linwood Breedlove Scott’s life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents’ house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia…
which is exactly where she’s headed. Lin’s barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty year old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin’s about to discover that it’s never too late for old friends, new romance, the ties of family, and a second chance to survive it all on the road to becoming the person you were always meant to be…

Ladies of the Lake

Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose all with grown children of their own have a complicated relationship, so when their grand mother’s will requires them to spend the whole summer without friends or family camping in at her run down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit the valuable land, old rivalries and new understanding emerge, with plenty of laughs along the way. Desperate to save her Buckhead home from foreclosure after being left in the lurch, recent divorcee Dahlia must complete the summer and sell her share immediately. Practical, even tempered Violet will be no problem, but Iris has been Dahlia s nemesis since she learned to say, no to her big sister. And super sweet, quirky Garage Sale Queen Rose is so green she d test the patience of a saint. As tempers flare and old secrets are revealed, four grown women discover that the past is never truly buried.

Waking Up In Dixie

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her white trash family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later, she d end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who’s foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he s at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real husband, which scares proper, repressed Elizabeth to death, and setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town s baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. The ensuing hilarious rollercoaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage, but the whole town and its hidebound institutions.

The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law

A very Southern mother in law’s humorous advice to mothers in law everywhere. From the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club. Bestselling author Haywood Smith and her pals have lots of personal experience in the joys, sorrows, pitfalls and flat out hysteria of Mother in Lawness. Now Smith offers a handy and fun booklet of pithy advice to mothers in law everywhere. Smiths sassy observations and gentle wisdom are delivered with her trademark southern charm, packing the sweet, heady punch of bourbon ice cubes melting in a mint julep. The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers in Law is the perfect gift book for showers, engagement parties, family celebrations or just to share with that special DIL Daughter in Law or SIL Son in Law. It can even safely be given to a Mother in Law

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