Book one in the series set in the east coast of England, in Suffolk, often called the Sunrise Coast because of its stunning sunrises.
What happens when your heart is pulled in two different directions? Who do you choose?
When her boyfriend surprises her with a break away on the Suffolk Coast, in a grand hotel on the sea front, Lili assumes he is whisking her away on a romantic weekend to propose, and her life with him in London is finally coming together.
Then Alex drops a bombshell: he’s moving to Washington. And he expects her to come. But when her best friend Hannah appears, desperate for help, Lili is forced to make an impossible choice that is about to change the course of her life.
A chance encounter on the Suffolk Coast sends her on a journey to uncover the secrets of her past – and discover where her future truly lies.
A heartwarming story of second chances, lost family, and discovering where you truly belong. .
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BOOK 2 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
How far would you go to uncover a secret from your past?
After a painful breakup, Lili makes a fresh start on the Suffolk Coast where a chance encounter with a curmudgeonly old gentleman who runs an antique store is about to change the course of her life. There she meets Nate, who has returned home with his young son to rebuild his life at his grandfather Joseph’s house, The Summerhouse.
When Lili discovers Joseph owns a Hebrew wedding band identical to the one she has worn since childhood – the only clue to her identity after she was found alone on a beach in Corfu – she is drawn into a mystery spanning three generations.
As Lili travels to Corfu in search of answers, long-buried secrets begin to surface, leading her back to The Summerhouse and the truth about her past.
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BOOK 3 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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.
Abigail’s best friend, Lili, comes to the rescue, persuading her to visit the cottage by the sea she has inherited on the fringes of a Suffolk market town. Once there she meets the Somerville’s; Hugh, still grieving the loss of his wife in childbirth thirty-five years ago, his son, Oliver, set to inherit Somerville Hall, and his older sister, Carys, who has returned home to the hall after a messy divorce.
But all is not what it appears with the Somerville’s, and as their lives unravel, Abigail discovers they might just hold the key to unlocking the secrets of Toby’s past.
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BOOK 4 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
Every family has its secrets . . .
Recently retired, Alice is reluctantly preparing to sell her beloved family home in Cambridge and downsize. Clearing out the loft, she uncovers a box of letters addressed to her husband from a woman she has never heard of – letters sent from The Guest House at Shingle Cove, the very place Alice vowed never to return to.
Unable to ignore the questions the letters raise, Alice returns to the windswept Suffolk Coast and the guest house where a life-changing summer unfolded decades earlier. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realises her husband has been hiding a secret for years – a secret that could unravel the life they built together.
As long-buried memories resurface, Alice must confront the past she tried so hard to leave behind and uncover what really happened one summer at The Guest House at Shingle Cove.
An emotional and gripping story of family secrets, betrayal, and the past catching up with the present.
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BOOK 5 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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.
Reeling from a betrayal, she returns to her grandparents in Connecticut where she grew up. She hasn’t been back since she lost her mother six months ago. She knew going back would be a mistake. There would be strings attached; a job in their firm and a life Lexi did not want.
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?
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BOOK 6 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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.
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BOOK 7 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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?
But 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.
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BOOK 8 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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. Her mother once said it was the key to her heart. She would say no more about it. Briony is about to discover it is the key to a house which has been in her family for generations.
When she arrives the mystery deepens as Blythe 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?
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BOOK 9 IN THE SUNRISE COAST SERIES
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 didn’t 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?
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Sometimes, when life feels at its toughest, friendship and community can open the door to a brand new chapter…
For Hannah, the little arts and crafts shop in Cobblers Yard was supposed to be the start of something wonderful.
As a young single mum, she’s faced her fair share of ups and downs, and whilst she has made mistakes, all she wants now is a fresh start, a chance to build a business she can be proud of, and if she is really lucky, meet the man of her dreams.
But Hannah isn’t prepared for the mounting bills and dwindling customers, and the creeping fear that she might lose everything she’s worked so hard for. All around her, it appears everyone is moving on with their lives while she is barely managing to stand still.
Then one morning, just as Hannah is beginning to wonder if her dreams are about to slip away, a simple favour changes everything. The gossip-loving ladies from the charity shop across the yard need help with a mysterious donation left anonymously on their doorstep.
Hannah is about to find out how a simple act of kindness can spark something she never expected – a chance encounter, a change in her fortunes, and a reminder that she isn’t as alone as she thought, and happy endings really do come true…
Book 10 in The Sunrise Coast Series
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Every house hides a secret …
Lady Jemima carries a secret close to her heart; one she and the remaining few elderly staff of Somersby Hall have protected for three generations. But a new arrival is about to throw their carefully guarded secret into disarray.
Somersby Hall, a once-grand estate nestled in the rolling Suffolk countryside, is slipping into disrepair. In a last-ditch effort to save his grandmother’s cherished home, Rupert returns after years away to arrange an auction of family treasures, looking forward to getting it done and returning to his life in London. But fate has other plans …
When Rupert crosses paths with the new tenant of the cottage in the grounds of the Hall, everything begins to change. Hannah is not at all what he expected, and neither are the feelings she stirs in him. As his heart becomes entangled with hers, so too does his longing to save Somersby Hall; not just for his grandmother, but for the chance of building a future he never imagined.
However the future of Somersby Hall still hangs in the balance, for little does Rupert know that everything he believed about himself and his family’s past is built on a lie. As the past and the present collide, Rupert discovers that Hannah just might hold the key to both his heart – and the secrets of Somersby Hall.
Book 11 in The Sunrise Coast Series is best enjoyed following on from Book 10 – Sunrise Over Seashell Bay.
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A broken heart. An abandoned theatre. A secret waiting to be uncovered …
After heartbreak ends her London stage career, Bridie receives an unlikely lifeline – a crumbling seaside theatre, gifted by a mystery benefactor. It might be the fresh start she is looking for.
But The Little Theatre by the Sea has been closed for decades. There’s a rumour the theatre is haunted; years ago, an actress mysteriously vanished mid-performance, never to be seen again.
With no money and no plan, Bridie’s fresh start seems impossible until the local community rallies around her, and Jack, a face from her past carrying his own ghosts, offers his help. Together, they slowly breathe life back into the old theatre, preparing it for its first performance in years.
But as opening night draws closer, Bridie digs deeper into the theatre’s past and uncovers a family secret that ties her to its history – and someone who will do anything to keep it hidden, and the theatre closed forever.
She came to the Suffolk coast to heal and move on. But Bridie soon realises the past has other plans …