Barbara Bretton Books in Order

Bretton's debut already shows her interest in ordinary lives upended by love. It is a heartfelt romance about change, risk, and the surprises that come with opening your heart.

House-sitting in Gettysburg should be simple, but for Lainie Randall it becomes something far more complicated. This romance mixes lingering obligations, attraction, and a setting full of memory.

This romantic suspense story puts love under pressure from danger and distrust. Bretton balances the threat level with a relationship that has to grow fast or not at all.

A heightened, passionate romance with danger, desire, and strong-willed leads at its center. Bretton gives it a vivid, almost larger-than-life emotional feel.

Late-night confessions and hard choices pull two people together in this classic category romance. The promises come easily, but keeping them is another matter.

Ambition, attention, and desire collide in this emotionally bright romance. Behind the glamour, Bretton keeps the focus on very human choices.

A sweeping romance about love tested by time, uncertainty, and the fear of losing what matters most. Bretton aims for big feelings and a strong emotional payoff.

A romance shaped by waiting, wanting, and the pressure of one last chance. Bretton keeps the focus on hearts that are not nearly as guarded as they pretend.

A love story about finding a new rhythm after life goes off key. Bretton pairs emotional setbacks with the hope of starting fresh.

Life tips into chaos and love follows close behind in this fast-moving contemporary romance. Bretton mixes humor, heat, and just enough trouble to keep things lively.

Weddings and getaway dreams set the scene for a romance full of mix-ups, longing, and unexpected connection. The setting gives Bretton plenty of room for comedy and heart.

A tender romance about belonging, vulnerability, and the deep wish to be claimed and loved. Bretton gives the story an extra emotional ache.

A dramatic romance full of pride, attraction, and high emotional stakes. Bretton builds the tension around strong personalities who are not used to giving ground.

A moodier Barbara Bretton romance, with danger at the edges and passion in the middle. Secrets refuse to stay buried for long.

Meddling family and romantic complications make privacy almost impossible in this lively contemporary romance. Bretton has fun with the setup while keeping the emotions believable.

A Christmas-set romance about loss, hard edges, and the possibility of being softened by love. Bretton gives the familiar holiday setup real feeling and a nice dose of redemption.

An escapist romance about leaving the familiar behind and discovering that reinvention can begin with one bold choice. The travel mood gives the love story extra lift.

An emotional romance about grief, hope, and the quiet ways people rescue one another. Bretton balances heartache with the promise of a fresh start.

As America heads deeper into World War II, love has to compete with duty, distance, and uncertainty. Bretton gives this home-front romance a strong sense of time, place, and longing.

Part of Bretton's wartime sequence, this romance pairs historical atmosphere with the ache of two people trying to hold on in a world that keeps shifting under them. It is tender, hopeful, and shadowed by history.

A holiday-season romance about family surprises, new beginnings, and the way one small life can change everything. Bretton gives the story warmth without losing its emotional edge.

Family loyalty, independence, and romance collide in this emotionally direct love story. Bretton explores what happens when a heroine has to choose between old expectations and the life she actually wants.

A contemporary woman is pulled into another era, where history and romance become impossible to separate. It is the first book in Bretton's time-travel trilogy, and it sets the emotional stakes high.

The wedding may be planned, but love is a much tougher sell. Bretton turns a hesitant match into a warm, witty romance about trust and changing your mind.

A powerful man with a dangerous charm meets a woman who should know better than to trust him. The setup is fast, glossy, and built for high chemistry.

A lively marriage-minded romance where the arrangement may be practical but the feelings refuse to stay that way. Bretton leans into comedy, sparks, and a bride who is nobody's pushover.

A glamorous contemporary romance shaped by privilege, public attention, and the uneasy line between image and truth. Beneath the polish, Bretton keeps the feelings messy and real.

Bretton adds an unusual twist to a wedding-centered romance, turning a familiar setup into something stranger and more playful. The result is part love story, part romantic complication, and all heart.

This is Barbara Bretton in modern fairy-tale mode, pairing wealth, status, and real emotional risk. A princess and a billionaire have all the glamour they need, but trust is the harder part.

The second time-travel romance in the trilogy sends love across centuries and asks what home really means. Bretton balances history, longing, and impossible choices.

Dakota finds herself drawn into a battle of wills with stubborn Patrick Devane, a man who has kept everyone, even his daughter, at arm's length. Their clash turns into a time-bending romance with family at its center.

A second-chance romance about old heartbreak, unfinished business, and the hope that timing can change everything. Bretton gives the story a glossy, emotional pull.

A practical scheme to secure the right husband turns complicated when real feelings get involved. Bretton plays the setup for warmth, chemistry, and plenty of romantic chaos.

A sharp, emotionally charged romance where desire and conscience pull in opposite directions. The attraction is immediate, but the cost of giving in may be higher than either of them expects.

What starts as a practical plan involving a baby quickly turns personal. Bretton blends family longing, humor, and a romance that refuses to stay tidy.

After fleeing a cold, cruel marriage in London, Alex starts over in a fading New Jersey shore town. She wants independence, not romance, until local man John Gallagher makes solitude much harder to hold onto.

Pregnant and blindsided by betrayal, Molly comes home to discover that the life she counted on is gone. Starting over is hard enough, but opening her heart again may be harder.

A hardworking woman juggling family, responsibility, and too many demands finds her life shifting when love arrives at the least convenient moment. Bretton keeps the stakes rooted in everyday choices and real emotion.

Childhood sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks are torn apart long before they are ready to let go. Years later, love returns, along with the old hurts that nearly destroyed them the first time.

Widowed young, Annie Galloway moves into a cottage by the water hoping for a quiet fresh start. Instead she finds a charming new neighbor and a chance at love she never meant to take.

In Shelter Rock Cove, a smart, self-possessed woman finds her ordered life upended by passion, gossip, and a relationship that feels riskier than it should. Summer heat makes every decision harder.

Divorced and out of options, Maddy returns to Paradise Point with her young daughter and a long history with her mother. A clash over an antique samovar brings single dad Aidan into her life at exactly the wrong, and right, time.

Maddy and Aidan are trying to make it to the altar, but family surprises and teenage secrets threaten to shake the whole future loose. This follow-up to *Shore Lights* keeps the romance warm and the stakes close to home.

A love story shaped by time, longing, and the pull of what might have been. Bretton mixes emotional sweep with the question of whether fate can really be outrun.

Two sisters from a once-famous family are forced back together when their troubled mother is badly hurt. Old wounds, long-buried secrets, and unexpected love make the homecoming impossible to avoid.

After a public health scare in a parking lot, Kate cannot stop thinking about the stranger who saved her life. When he reappears, both of them have to decide whether they are ready for the kind of love that changes everything.

Chloe Hobbs runs a knitting shop in a Vermont town full of hidden magical beings. Then she falls for the very human cop investigating Sugar Maple's first murder, and everything gets complicated.

A bakery owner lands a dream job and a life-changing shock when she learns a famous rock star may be her father. In the middle of the upheaval, his lawyer Finn becomes impossible to ignore.

Luke's ex-wife arrives claiming their dead daughter is reaching out from beyond, and Chloe is pulled into a painful supernatural fight. Saving the child could also free an old enemy and endanger Sugar Maple itself.

Chloe is used to losing things, but losing an entire town is a new low. To save Sugar Maple, she has to return to Salem and confront family secrets, old feuds, and dangerous magic.

Part cookbook and part personal reflection, this book shares easy recipes alongside stories from Barbara Bretton's life as a writer. It is warm, practical, and full of kitchen comfort.

Chloe is keeping a joyful secret, she and Luke are expecting a baby. But when a knitter delivers a chilling warning, Sugar Maple's magic circle has to move fast to protect the child.

Pregnancy has Chloe's powers going haywire just as family drama and fresh danger close in. Sugar Maple's newest arrival may be magical, but that only makes the threats more personal.

A second-chance romance that asks whether love can survive the mistakes of a first try. Bretton brings warmth, humor, and enough history to make the reunion matter.

A hero with marriage on his mind meets a romance that is not nearly as simple as he expected. Bretton plays with commitment, chemistry, and the difference between wanting a wedding and wanting the right person.

A holiday cat story with heart, humor, and a gentle romantic thread. Bretton uses the Christmas setting to bring a family, and possibly a couple, back toward what matters.

Eight years after a failed young marriage, Kate and Tony reconnect in Rocky Hill and discover the spark is still there. One unforgettable night turns a second chance into something much bigger.

Two years after their divorce, Kate and Ryan meet again at their daughter's wedding in Paris. Away from home and old routines, they start to see their marriage, and each other, in a new light.

On the eve of Pearl Harbor, a young sailor and an admiral's spoiled daughter clash in paradise and fall hard anyway. Their romance blooms under a looming sense that history is about to change everything.

Christmas in Rocky Hill becomes a chance for healing when an estranged father and son are pushed toward each other again. It is a tender holiday story about grief, family, and one last gift of love.

A warm contemporary romance built on reunion, regret, and the possibility of doing things better the next time. Bretton is especially good with this kind of hopeful reset.

Chloe and Luke are finally headed for their wedding, but Sugar Maple never makes anything easy. An antique ring and an old promise stir up trouble that could derail their hard-won future.

When a pregnant woman and her little girl go missing in a snowstorm, Chloe has to find them before Sugar Maple's secrets spill into the wider world. At the same time, old magic is shifting in ways nobody can fully control.

A holiday street fair turns disastrous when a billionaire crashes into Sugar Maple and uncovers secrets tied to the town's past. Chloe races to save lives while magic, mystery, and prophecy tighten around everyone involved.

Sugar Maple faces another crisis when Chloe is offered a glittering opportunity that could change the town forever. At the same time, dark plans close in around Meghan, and Chloe has to decide what she is willing to risk to protect her home.