Books

She left ten years ago and promised herself she would never come back.

Ten years ago, Dr. Reagan Cole left the Gulf Coast island of Tidewater Crossing in the middle of the night — no explanation, no goodbye, and no intention of ever returning. The town wrote the story without her. Her ex-fiancé held the pen. And Reagan let them, because the...

She spent four years becoming invisible. Now she’s learning to be seen.

Shelby Langford’s marriage looked perfect from the outside. Her husband was charming, respected, a leader in their church. But behind closed doors, Caleb Morrow was something else entirely—a man who controlled with quiet precision, who turned Scripture into a locked door and...

She built a life on never needing anyone. The bayou had other plans.

Lila Beaulieu has spent seven years proving she doesn’t need help. As the owner of Salt and Pearl—the Creole-inspired restaurant she built from nothing on the Tidewater Crossing boardwalk—she is the woman everyone leans on and no one thinks to check on. A single mother. A fierce...

He spent fifteen years charming every room he walked into.

She spent three years making sure no one noticed she was in the room at all.

Nico Beaulieu has cooked in kitchens across the country—Navy galleys, award-winning restaurants, every city that would have him and none that could keep him. He’s talented, restless, and running from the...

She left him at the altar. Ten years later, her sister’s wedding brings her home.

Ten years ago, Margaux Fontenot walked out the side door of Bellefontaine Community Church in her wedding dress and never looked back. She left behind the Louisiana bayou town that raised her, the family that silenced her, and the man who was waiting for her at the...

One devastating day. One desperate escape. One small town that changes everything.

Cassie Monroe thought she had it all figured out—a rising career in Chicago, a fiancé who checked every box, a future as polished as her résumé. Then, in a single Tuesday, everything she built comes crashing down.

With nothing left to lose, she accepts an...

She had a good life. So why did it feel like something was missing?

Dr. Tessa Park loves her quiet veterinary practice in Haven’s Creek, her cozy apartment, and the community she’s built. She’s content. Settled. Safe. But lately, a restlessness she can’t name has been whispering that maybe safe isn’t the same as whole.

When her mentor calls with...

She’d spent six years holding everyone together. She never thought to ask who would hold her.

Kenzie Fletcher is the woman who shows up. When her father died, she stepped in. When her siblings needed her, she stayed. When her nonprofit needed saving, she got in the car. She’s been the scaffolding for everyone else’s life so long she’s forgotten...

She had protected her heart so well, she almost forgot what it felt like to use it.

Laurel Whitfield is good at her life. Her Nashville design career is finally hitting its stride, her faith is steady — if a little managed — and she has learned, after one devastating mistake, exactly how much of herself to give and how much to keep safely tucked...

A Place Called Home Series: The Complete Collection

Four women. Four towns. Four stories of love that found them when they stopped running from it.

Some places do more than shelter you. They see you. They ask the questions you’ve been avoiding. They put the exact right person in your path at the exact wrong — and perfect — time.

That’s what...

She wrote love stories for millions. She just couldn’t live her own.

Hadley Morgan built a career creating unforgettable romance on screen—four seasons, twelve Emmy nominations, and a hit show audiences couldn’t get enough of.

Then she walks away.

No final contract. No twenty-million-dollar deal. Just an ending she promised… and a life that...

She built her life on control. Italy is about to unravel it.

Vivienne Carstaire doesn’t do messy. She does structure, precision, and a career that made her a global star. Walking away from the stage at twenty was the easiest decision she ever made—until her father’s death sends her to Lake Como to settle what he left behind.

It was supposed to be...

She built her life behind the camera. He saw her anyway.

Sera Navarro is one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed directors—and the most guarded. She captures emotion for a living but keeps her own locked away. Minimal words. No explanations. No attachments.

Then her mother gets sick. And Sera is forced to go home.

Home is a quiet suburb outside...

She made everyone else visible. He was the first to see her.

Zuri Aneke has spent fifteen years making other people look extraordinary. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after costume designers, she knows how to use fabric, thread, and instinct to tell anyone’s story — except her own.

When a prestigious fashion collective offers her a...

Four Brides. Four sets of vows. One God who wrote it all.

Ten days before the wedding, Zuri Aneke arrives at Lake Como with four garment bags and a secret. For four months, she has been designing the wedding dresses for her three best friends — in private, by hand, every stitch a love letter to women who have held her up since they were eighteen...

Some letters arrive exactly where the Lord meant them to.

A confession written in pen and mailed for twelve years into silence. A wedding RSVP returned to the wrong sender in familiar handwriting. An old love letter forgotten inside a library book. A note tucked into a sympathy bouquet that ends up at the wrong front door.

Every book in the ...

For ten years, June Mercer has run toward every disaster but her own. What happens when coming home is the bravest thing she’s ever had to do?

June has spent a decade as a relief nurse, deploying into floods and famines on three continents — the kind of woman who can be wheels-up to a disaster zone in a day, because holding still has always...

Wren Mercer has spent her whole life learning to leave first. This summer, a windswept island is about to give her every reason to stay.

Wren left Wrenhaven Island years ago and swore she’d never come back. A wedding photographer who keeps a bag packed by the door, she has spent her life safe behind the camera — because the person in the picture...

She gave herself one year to not fall in love. He’s spent fifteen trying not to tell her he already has.

For three years, Marin Mercer has run the Mercer Inn like a fortress. After her marriage ended, she closed its doors to weddings, filled its rooms with everyone else’s happiness, and quietly stopped expecting any of her own. One year — that...

She left the island to find a bigger life. She never expected it would lead her back to him.

When her grandfather collapses, Cora Mercer abandons her carefully built life in Raleigh and catches the last ferry home to Wrenhaven Island—the wild barrier island she swore she’d never return to. But home isn’t the same place she left behind. Her...