Escape to the sunrise coast with these heartwarming stories of love, friendship, and new beginnings.
THE SUNRISE COAST BOXSET SERIES BOOKS 1-3
Book 1: New Beginnings at the Harbour Inn
What happens when your heart is pulled in two different directions? Who do you choose?
Lili’s life is finally coming together – or so she thinks. When her boyfriend, Alex, surprises her with a break away on the Suffolk Coast, in a grand hotel on the sea front, Lili hopes he is whisking her away on a romantic weekend to celebrate their long-awaited engagement.
But when Lili, an orphan with a mysterious past, has a chance encounter it sets her on a journey to discover the secrets from her past. Now Lili must decide where her future lies and with whom . . .
Book 2: The Secret of the Summerhouse
How far would you go to uncover a secret from your past?
After a breakup leaves her facing an uncertain future, Lili finds an unexpected opportunity when a old antique shop owner offers her a flat to rent above his shop.
As she settles into her new life on the Suffolk Coast, she forms a surprising friendship with Nate, who is also starting afresh with his young son. Lili’s journey takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a Hebrew wedding band belonging to Joseph, Nate’s grandfather, that matches the one she’s worn since childhood.
This revelation sparks a quest to uncover her mysterious past, leading her back to Corfu and the secrets that connect her to Joseph and the summerhouse.
The second book in the series can be read as a standalone novel, but it is best enjoyed following on from Book 1: New Beginnings at the Harbour Inn.
Book 3: The Cottage by the Sea
Where do you go to mend a broken heart?
When Abigail’s world falls apart, she doesn’t know how to pick herself up and carry on after losing her soulmate. They had plans. Her late husband worked as a paramedic, and they were saving hard to buy their own home. Toby had been working an extra shift when he died. If he hadn’t been, Abigail knew he’d still be here today.
Abigail is shocked to discover Toby has left her a cottage in his will – The Hideaway. At first she thinks there has been some mistake; there were no secrets between them – were there? Now her world falls apart again when she realises she is grieving a man with a secret past.
The third book in The Sunrise Coast Series can be read as a standalone novel and enjoyed as part of the series.
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~ Three heartwarming stories of love, friendship, and the secrets we keep ~
Book 4: The Guest House at Shingle Cove
Every family has its secrets . . .
Alice is coming to terms with selling her beloved family home in Cambridge to downsize and help their daughter on to the property ladder. Recently retired, she was looking forward to pursuing new hobbies and her passion for archaeology, not tripping over packing boxes and worrying about finding another place to call home.
Sorting through years of stored items in the loft, Alice discovers a box of letters addressed to her husband from a stranger. Who was this woman called Wendy, and why has she been corresponding with her husband from the place where they spent their honeymoon, the place Alice made a promise to herself that she would never return – The Guest House at Shingle Cove?
Jeffrey has harboured a secret for years, afraid that Alice would leave him if she discovered the truth. But now she has dumped a box of letters in his study that he should never had kept, packed a suitcase, and walked out.
As long-buried secrets resurface about the events that took place there one summer many years ago, Alice realises too late that she has opened Pandora’s box by returning to the place where it all began – The Guest House at Shingle Cove. And now, there is no going back . . .
Book 5: The Houseboat by the Quay
Would you risk it all to find where you truly belong?
Lexi’s dream life is about to fall apart in a spectacular fashion. Living in New York with her best friend and soulmate, Brandon, Lexi is not prepared for her life to unravel when she unexpectedly returns home from work one Monday morning.
A phone call from the lawyer who handled her late mother’s estate brings some unexpected news; a letter has surfaced which she should have received months ago. Lexi has been given specific instructions by her late mother to deliver the sealed letter personally to a reclusive writer who lives in England, and to tell no one about her trip.
Lexi had always intended to return to England. Now this was a perfect excuse to go. But who is this reclusive writer and what secrets are hidden in that letter? Will she discover the reason her early life in England was never spoken of, and her desire to return to the country of her birth always discouraged?
Book 6: Return to Willow Tree Cottage
Life takes you unexpected places, love brings you home.
Lexi has left her old life in America behind. She is living on the beautiful Suffolk Coast with a new job and a new man in her life, the mysterious Scott, her neighbour next door.
But everything is not what it seems. Scott, a single parent to an outspoken ten-year-old, harbours a secret. They don’t settle anywhere for long, always on the move, and on the run; that’s what his daughter, Charlie, confided in Lexi one day.
Scott isn’t the only one with something to hide. Lexi’s new life is built on a lie. She had returned to England with a sealed letter from her late mother with instructions to deliver it in person to a reclusive writer. Lexi finds herself squatting in the writer’s houseboat, awaiting her return, until by chance she discovers the writer is not in London as she has been led to believe, but living locally in a house called Willow Tree Cottage.
Margot hasn’t written in years. Once a best-selling author, a devastating event from her past haunts her. Unbeknown to her friends, she returns to her cottage every summer to nurse a broken heart. But this summer is going to be like no other, and when Margot comes face to face with the person squatting on her houseboat, both their lives will change forever.
Book 6 in The Sunrise Coast Series is best enjoyed following on from Book 5 – The Houseboat by the Quay.
THE SUNRISE COAST BOXSET SERIES BOOKS 7-9
~ Three enchanting stories of family, love, and the power of friendship ~
Book 7: The Bookshop of Memories
In a forgotten bookshop on the Suffolk Coast, memories of the past and a decades-old mystery are about to resurface with two new arrivals . . .
Thea thinks she is living her best life, with a job in London she loves and a young man she adores. But life is about to take an unexpected turn …
When Thea returns to Suffolk, nursing a broken heart, she stumbles upon the key to an abandoned bookshop. Closed for years, mystery surrounds the disappearance of its owner. For Thea, the old bookshop stirs up memories from her past. When a stranger turns up in the small Suffolk town, and offers to help Thea restore the bookshop, she is instantly drawn to this handsome young man. Can she leave her past behind and open her heart to romance again?
Callum hides a secret – his real identity. As he grows ever closer to Thea, he knows his past and that of the mysterious bookshop owner will catch up with him. And if the bookshop gives up its secrets, he’ll lose her forever.
Book 7 in The Sunrise Coast Series is a standalone novel but can also be enjoyed as part of the series.
Book 8: The Beach House
Briony has always known there was someone missing from her life…
Briony thinks she has her future all mapped out until something unexpected throws her life off course. A letter arrives from her grandmother, Blythe, whom she has never met, inviting her to The Beach House on the Suffolk Coast. The letter comes with a warning – she must keep her trip a secret.
Briony still has her mother’s old shell box that she found as a child. Inside is a key to a house she is unaware has been in her family for generations – The Beach House.
When Briony arrives at The Beach House, the mystery deepens as her grandmother is nowhere to be found. Briony meets her grandmother’s friends in Cobblers Yard, and they rally round, joining her in her search to uncover the truth behind her grandmother’s disappearance.
Will Briony reveal her family’s secretive past at The Beach House, or is the truth destined to remain lost, as elusive as the tide that ebbs and flows on the Suffolk shore?
Book 9: A Summer to Remember
In the quiet solitude of The Beach House, Briony’s journey to find her elusive relative, the grandmother she has never met, is about to take an unexpected turn
Briony starts to unravel the poignant love story from decades ago between her grandmother and a mystery man named Frank – a tale of unrequited love told through love letters hidden in an old bureau. Would they provide clues to her grandmother’s whereabouts?
Their poignant love story mirrors her own – Briony did not expect to arrive at The Beach House and fall in love. Troy. They could never be together; she has a fiancé, a life back in Oxford, and a child on the way. But how could she possibly leave this place, leave Troy?
Troy did not expect to arrive at The Beach House and meet Blythe’s beautiful granddaughter, or fall in love. That’s not what he was there for. But she’d discovered him at The Beach House and assumed he was doing some work on the property. He didn’t know how long he could keep up the pretence before she found out the truth.
As the mystery of what happened there one summer starts to unravel, Briony is about to discover everything she believed about her life was built on lie.
Will the secrets from that summer bring Briony and Troy together or drive them apart forever?
Book 9 in The Sunrise Coast Series is best enjoyed following on from Book 8 – The Beach House.