It was the first day of spring this week and weather has really picked up to coincide with it, so this week for the series post, I’m writing about a romance series set on a windswept island in Maine*.
This is called the Puffin Island trilogy, although there is a 0.5 (which I haven’t read) which is a Harlequin Presents book in the UK and doesn’t seem to be obiviously set on the island or linked to the other three. But the trilogy itself is centered around three friends who each use the same cottage on the island when times in their life get tough.
Book one, First Time in Forever, features Emily who is hiding out on the island with her niece whose mum has just died in a plane crash, and her romance with Ryan, charismatic yacht club owner and former journalist. In Some Kind of Wonderful it’s Brittany, back on the island after a decade away only to discover the ex-husband who ditched her ten days after the wedding is back there too. And in Christmas Ever After, it’s Skylar and Alec who have been fighting in the background for the previous two books and who finally work things out between them.
Now obviously this is the wrong time of year for many people to be reading a Christmas novel, but I’m pretty sure if you read the first two you’ll end up reading the third anyway, even if it’s not Christmas reading season. Because individually these are great romances, but when you read them back to back they build as well and make you want to see what happens next. And of course as always Sarah Morgan’s great at creating places that feel like they’re real and people that you want to hang out and be friends with – see also the Snow Crystal/O’Neil Brothers books.
There are coming up on a decade old now, so I don’t know how easy they’re going to be to get hold of in paperback, but it’s on Kindle and Kobo too – and Christmas Ever After is in Kindle Unlimited at the moment
*why is Maine so popular as a setting for romance and mystery books? Is there something in the water?
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