Cecelia Scott Books in Order

Sam and her mother Dottie grow closer while renovating the family inn in Cocoa Beach. Around them, siblings and children face strained marriages, heartbreak, and a difficult new arrival, testing the family's ability to support one another through change.

After discovering her husband's infidelity, forty-three-year-old Samantha returns to Cocoa Beach with her children to help her widowed mother run the family inn. Reconnecting with siblings offers a fresh start, but her son's distress makes escaping the divorce's consequences difficult.

Julie returns to Sweeney House with her daughter and a request that goes far beyond a family reunion. As renovations continue and Sam's romance develops, Dottie tries to keep everyone together while confronting a chance to help her granddaughter survive.

Annie opens a bakery and develops a complicated connection with the single father who owns the neighboring gym. Meanwhile, the Sweeneys welcome a long-lost sister, but secrets surrounding Lori and her daughter raise questions about the fresh start they seek.

As the inn's renovation nears completion, Julie runs for mayor and the Sweeneys rally behind her campaign. Amber finds purpose managing it, but her father's arrival forces a pregnancy revelation and brings her parents' broken marriage back into focus.

Sam and Erica search for a long-lost relative while Taylor faces unexpected developments in her romantic life. Elsewhere, Annie needs support and John questions his marriage, leaving the Sweeneys to navigate changes that could either strengthen or fracture their family.

The Sweeneys prepare to reopen their inn with Sam's wedding while new romances and old resentments complicate the celebration. Dottie confronts an unexpected chance at love, and a mysterious arrival threatens the family gathering they have worked so hard to create.

Gloria faces a crisis involving her college-athlete son just as her ex-husband returns with his own agenda. Vanessa and Noah try to rebuild their relationship after decades apart, while cousins Emily and Daisy explore new possibilities as beach-house roommates.

After losing her job and facing her father's death, Vanessa reconnects with the daughter she placed for adoption thirty years earlier. Their return to Rosemary Beach offers family support and second chances, but unresolved history threatens the new life they hope to build.

Vanessa reunites with her first love as Emily begins getting to know her biological father. A looming wedding strains Gloria's relationship with Daisy, while the sisters investigate their mother's mysterious death and uncover secrets that could reshape the family.

Gloria helps her son rebuild after he leaves college, Vanessa faces the possible end of her renewed relationship with Noah, and Daisy develops feelings for a difficult landlord. Each must decide what to preserve and what to leave behind.