Chesapeake Diaries Books in Order

Grieving the murder of his wife, former FBI agent Grady Shields isolates himself in Montana until his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis on the Chesapeake Bay. There he meets boutique owner Vanessa Keaton and discovers that love and a sense of home might be possible again.

Hollywood actress Dallas MacGregor retreats to St. Dennis with her young son after her director husband ignites a scandal. Reunited with her outspoken great aunt and first love Grant Wyler, now the town vet, she must decide whether this quiet Chesapeake town can anchor her life for good.

Ice cream maker Steffie Wyler has fulfilled one childhood wish by owning One Scoop or Two on St. Dennis's main street. When her teenage crush Wade MacGregor returns to town with his own bruised past and a secret from a failed business, Steffie learns that dreams can change and still come true.

Once the prettiest girl in St. Dennis, Brooke Madison Bowers had the perfect small town life until her soldier husband was killed in Iraq. Back on the family farm and opening a cupcake bakery, she finds herself drawn to Jesse Enright, the steady attorney who wants a future rooted in the town she loves.

Event planner Lucy Sinclair left St. Dennis after a violent assault shattered her sense of safety. Years later, she comes back to stage a celebrity wedding at her family's inn and to face the town, the best friend she left behind, Clay Madison, and the lingering trauma she has never fully named.

Ellie Chapman loses everything when her wealthy father is exposed for running a massive financial scam. With a ruined name and nowhere to go, she moves into the small St. Dennis house she inherited from her mother, intending to fix it up and leave, only to find work, friendship, and contractor Cameron O'Connor changing her plans.

Burned out by big city law and a cheating boyfriend, attorney Sophie Enright heads to St. Dennis to visit family and regroup. Buying a shuttered restaurant on the river puts her at odds with neighbor and landscaper Jason Bowers, and their rivalry slowly turns into something far more tender.

Gallery owner Carly Summit brings a major art exhibit to St. Dennis after plans in New York fall through, while former war zone photojournalist Ford Sinclair returns home to run the local paper for a while. Her relentless optimism and his hard won cynicism clash, then slowly find common ground.

Self help author Jamie Valentine discovers after her mother's sudden death that she was adopted, a truth her books never prepared her for. Following slim clues to St. Dennis, she books a room at the Inn at Sinclair's Point and upends the carefully ordered life of widowed innkeeper Daniel Sinclair.

Artist Lisbeth Parker returns to Cannonball Island, just across the water from St. Dennis, to show her work and record her great grandmother's memories. Environmental engineer Alec Jansen, once the boy she rejected for prom, is now leading a development study, putting them on opposite sides of a fight for the island's future.

Architect Cassidy Logan travels to Cannonball Island to design sensitively built, eco friendly homes for her father's company on land that has seen no new construction for nearly a century. As she works with island boatbuilder Owen Parker and wary residents, she finds herself tempted to put down roots of her own.

Chrissy Jenkins has always felt like the awkward one in her extended St. Dennis family. After a disastrous relationship, she returns to the bay determined to rebuild her life on her own terms, only to discover that love and self respect might both be waiting where the land meets the water.