Abby Gaines

Always keen to learn new skills she is a student of the Chinese language and has experimented with women's fiction and young adult novels. When she is not writing her novels, she can usually be found traveling, skiing, reading, spending time with family, and cooking for friends. Gaines was just 16 when she penned her first romance fiction novel since she loved reading and writing romance.

The best place to start is the Marriage Of Inconvenience series, the earliest of Abby Gaines's multi-book series: it opens with Husband in a Hurry (1996) and runs to 16 books across 1996–2011, ending with His Wife for One Night (2011). Abby Gaines's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Abby Gaines has 173 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2013. 166 of them belong to 7 named series — the largest being the Suddenly A Parent series with 21 books — and 7 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Abby Gaines's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Marriage Of Inconvenience (1996–2011, 16 books), Suddenly A Parent (2005–2012, 21 books) and Those Merritt Girls (2009, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Abby Gaines's 173 books into 7 named series and 7 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Suddenly A Parent (21 books, 2005–2012); Marriage Of Inconvenience (16 books, 1996–2011); More than Friends (7 books, 2010–2011); Those Merritt Girls (3 books, 2009); The Parson's Daughters (2 books, 2011–2012), plus 2 further series.