Anne Canadeo Books in Order

When a film crew chooses Angel Island as a location, movie star Charlotte Miller falls in love with the inn’s quiet beauty and the steady kindness of local fisherman Colin Doyle. As fame collides with small town life, both must decide what they are willing to risk for a different kind of future.

After a health scare, Adele Morgan returns to Cape Light determined to heal a long running family feud, only to find her children resistant and busy with their own lives. On nearby Angel Island, a skeptical graduate student arrives to debunk the town’s angel legends and instead finds his heart changing in unexpected ways.

Liza Martin’s newly reopened inn takes on its first big test when she agrees to host a wedding before renovations are finished. As family tensions rise, a storm blows in, and the groom goes missing, Liza leans on enigmatic handyman Daniel Merritt and discovers that love and trust are rarely simple.

As Christmas approaches, Reverend Ben faces heart surgery and the unsettling prospect of stepping away from his beloved pulpit. While he recovers, young interim pastor Isabel Lawrence quietly wins over the Cape Light congregation, forcing Ben to ask what his calling looks like in the next chapter of his life.

Advertising executive Liza Martin arrives on Angel Island planning to sell the tired old inn she has inherited and hurry back to Boston. Memories of golden summers, the slow work of renovation, and the quiet strength of handyman Daniel Merritt gently push her to wonder whether the island offers a second chance.

Newly confident in her nursing career, Lucy Morgan is ready to leave her unreliable boyfriend until a sick, runaway teenager pulls them both into a crisis. At the same time, single mother Betty finds herself unexpectedly drawn to a struggling writer playing Santa at a local party, and learns that the best gifts are often people.

Home from military service and facing lasting injuries, David is struggling to find work, accept his father’s remarriage, and face the return of his former girlfriend in Cape Light. Nearby, proud matriarch Lillian Warwick discovers that opening her guarded heart to old friend Dr. Ezra Elliot might be the bravest wish of all.

When a nighttime fire destroys Sam and Jessica Morgan’s beloved house just weeks before Christmas, they are forced to rely on the hospitality of friends while rebuilding their lives. On the other side of town, widower Jack Sawyer shelters a stranded mother and daughter, slowly finding that their presence rekindles his hope.

Molly Willoughby thought her child raising years were behind her, so an unexpected pregnancy shakes her carefully planned future. Elsewhere in Cape Light, Miranda discovers an unconscious stranger in her orchard and nurses him back to health, while Reverend Ben wrestles with the sudden fame of a mysterious wooden angel in his church.

Confined to bed after a bad fall, sharp tongued Lillian Warwick spends the holiday season remembering the winter of 1955, when she first met charming Oliver and fell in love. As her daughters Emily and Jessica care for her and listen, the family begins to see both past hurts and present hopes in a new light.

Cape Light’s mayor, Emily Warwick, finds a baby girl left in a cradle outside the church with a plea that someone care for her. Given temporary custody, Emily longs to keep the child, but her husband fears starting over, forcing Emily to weigh her duty to family against the tug of her own heart.

Still bruised from a bitter divorce, single mother Molly Willoughby has little interest in romance until widowed physician Matthew Harding moves to Cape Light with his troubled teenage daughter. As their friendship deepens, both adults must confront grief, forgiveness, and whether they dare believe in a fresh start.

Missionary pastor James Cameron returns to Cape Light to recover from illness and crashes his car in a snowstorm into that of Leigh Baxter, a pregnant woman on the run from a dangerous ex husband. Sheltered in town, Leigh finds warmth and love she never expected, but telling James the full truth may cost her everything.

With the town election behind her, Mayor Emily Warwick can finally focus on getting to know Sara, the adult daughter she placed for adoption twenty years earlier. As Emily navigates regret, new love with publisher Dan Forbes, and Sara’s tentative trust, Reverend Ben faces his own crisis of faith inside his troubled family.

Back in Cape Light, Emily Warwick juggles the demands of city hall, a demanding elderly mother, and her sister’s controversial engagement. Still mourning her late husband and the baby she once gave up, Emily wonders if she will ever feel whole again, even as small, unexpected graces begin to pull her toward hope.

This first Cape Light novel introduces the picture perfect seaside town and its imperfect residents, from overworked Mayor Emily Warwick and her restless sister Jessica to compassionate Reverend Ben and outspoken diner owner Charlie. As an election looms and family tensions rise, each character must decide what kind of life they want to build.