Susan Ladue: 7 books

As tourist season winds down in the Caribbean town of Placencia, boutique owner Kristen Maroney looks forward to a rest. Declaring that everyone could use a party, her friend Claire organizes a beach barbeque. Kristen accepts her invitation reluctantly, only to find out that Claire intends to use...

As each season gives way to the next, your dog's needs change, and if you don't pay attention to the right things, life can get complicated. For example, fall is a time when people change the antifreeze in their vehicles, so you need to look out for polluted puddles from which your dog might...

Tropical boutique owner Kristen Maroney has gotten the season off to a good start in the seaside town of Placencia. Customers troop in and out of her store and sales are encouraging. But suddenly her usually even tempered assistant Belinda turns snarly with customers, who complain to Kristen. To make...

Tropical boutique owner Kristen Maroney is lying low in an effort to recover from a broken leg that she sustained while trying to help a friend with a real estate problem. The last thing she wants is more drama in her life.But her faithful friend and neighbor Liz has a problem. Her new love...

If you work in the tourist industry in the Caribbean, summer is a time of too much heat and not enough money. In the seaside town of Placencia, boutique owner Kristen Maroney struggles to sell off last season's inventory when her friend Claire tells her that their mutual friend Flor has fallen prey...

The Paris I knew was the most heterosexual city imaginable. It was a kind of forced indoctrination into boy-girl coupling, with people draped all over each other everywhere you went. I had no idea how to find a respectable lesbian community, or any kind of community for that matter. So, in spite of...

Kristen Maroney is living the good life in the tropics. She owns her own boutique in the seaside town of Placencia, in the tiny country of Costa del Oro. She dates a hot casino manager, buys beach and resort wear from the best collections, lunches with friends, and watches TV with her Labrador retriever....