Stephanie Taylor: 16 books

When stagnation threatens the future of her beloved island, 30-year-old mayor Holly Baxter goes head-to-head with the community’s elderly retirees. With secrets swirling, family drama brewing, and an ex-boyfriend hanging around, can Holly find a way to save her slice of paradise? Her best...

Elizavetta has spent most of her thirteen years living in a Russian orphanage. She's happy there--she has friends, school, and the orphanage is her home. But when Jack and Maggie Cavendish arrive from Montana looking for a daughter, they turn her stable world upside down with the offer of a new life...

A school shooting in 2016 leaves Daniel Girch in a coma. As he’s hovering between life and death, he inexplicably wakes up in his own bedroom...but instead of an iPhone plugged in next to his bed, there’s a radio. On the dresser is a stack of cassette tapes. On the wall is a poster of a young...

By the time Mai Nakahara’s family leaves Tokyo to help run her aunt and uncle’s restaurant in Hawaii, she’s pretty much gotten used to living without the arm she lost to cancer. But life in Honolulu presents its own challenges: a giant ocean she’s too afraid to swim in, mean girls to ignore,...

Growing up in Miami, Coco Baxter was a sweet little girl with a life of luxury and two loving parents. That should have been enough. But family secrets, betrayals, and disappointments have left her hardened and on a path of self-destruction. At sixteen, Coco is angry and looking for new ways to get...

Officer Jake Zavaroni decides to leave his Miami beat after a traumatic event sends him into an emotional tailspin. His ex-girlfriend is another good reason to skip town, and putting more miles between the two of them is just a bonus. But once Jake arrives on Christmas Key, he realizes he's...

With the crew of 'Wild Tropics' arriving to film their reality show in the middle of a Halloween heatwave, mayor Holly Baxter has her hands full with PR duties, and not everyone is thrilled to have cameras and prying eyes on Christmas Key. In fact, one of the locals is more than happy to let her know...

Mayor Holly Baxter has her hands full: the island is hosting a group of rowdy, swashbuckling weekend pirates; her ex-boyfriend's new love interest has decided to stick around; mysterious holes keep popping up everywhere; and a new family is ready to make Christmas Key home--a family that includes...

Christmas Key will have to function without its beloved mayor, Holly Baxter, while she embarks on a European adventure with her long-distance love. But when Holly's mother arrives on the island with plans to sell off paradise and build a bloated, gaudy casino on the island's shores, the locals have...

Iris Beekman is finally getting used to having divorced parents when her mom informs them all that she’s taken a teaching job in America. The panic attacks Iris has had since Dad left start up again, and her older brother Pim makes it clear to everyone that he’s not happy about the move. But with...

Fifteen-year-old Rob Sheldon loves music and Twitter; no matter how many times his family moves, those two things never let him down. His dad is an unreliable alcoholic who lives in Florida, his mom is more interested in hitting the gym and in Rob’s five-year-old half-sister than she is in him,...

Escape to a tropical island where the only traffic comes from slow-moving golf carts driven by eccentric retirees, the commute to work involves getting sand between your toes, and happy hour means salty margaritas with a view of the ocean... There's Always a Catch follows Holly Baxter, Christmas...

When Bonnie Lane's husband passes away unexpectedly and leaves her a widow in her forties, she's left with three grown sons and the decision to stay in Atlanta, or to start a new life somewhere else. A trip to Christmas Key with her sister-in-law is the catalyst for her move, transporting her...

It's wedding season on Christmas Key, and with the arrival of a Hollywood starlet and her groom-to-be, the locals are knee-deep in cake frosting and mysterious paparazzi. Can Holly Baxter pull off this top-secret wedding and make her famous guests happy? And will the nuptials of a wealthy couple leave...