Christine Nolfi Books in Order
Browse Christine Nolfi books in order, with series lists, quick summaries, and where to start tips for Sweet Lake, Liberty, HeavenScribe, and more.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Publication Order
19 books
Treasure Me
by Christine Nolfi
2011
Petty thief Birdie Kaminsky comes to Liberty hunting a treasure hidden since the Civil War and a chance to change her life. What she finds instead is a tangle of family history, moral choices, and an unexpected shot at belonging.
Second Chance Grill
by Christine Nolfi
2012
Dr. Mary Chance retreats to Liberty, Ohio, after a personal loss, only to inherit a struggling restaurant and a town full of opinions. Her bond with a spirited girl named Blossom, and with Blossom's father, slowly opens the door to a different life.
The Tree of Everlasting Knowledge
by Christine Nolfi
2012
As work begins at the Fagan mansion, Ourania D'Andre is pulled toward long-buried secrets, old passion, and danger surrounding the foster children in her care. It is one of Nolfi's darker novels, blending family drama with real suspense.
Reviews Sell Books
by Christine Nolfi
2013
This short, practical guide is aimed at authors who want more reviews for their books. Christine Nolfi lays out simple ways to find reviewers, write stronger queries, and approach outreach with a little more purpose.
The Dream You Make
by Christine Nolfi
2013
Annie McDaniel is barely keeping her greenhouse alive when she becomes temporary guardian to her five-year-old nephew Dillon. A second job brings financial hope and a risky attraction, but Annie has little room left for another heartbreak.
Four Wishes
by Christine Nolfi
2014
Meade Williams seems to have everything except the one thing she still wants most, lasting love. Around her, other women in Liberty face life-changing choices, giving the novel the feel of an ensemble story about hope, family, and unexpected turns.
The Impossible Wish
by Christine Nolfi
2014
Wish Kaminsky is trouble on arrival, and Birdie knows her newly steady life in Liberty could come apart fast. This warm, funny installment turns a mother-daughter collision into a story about family strain, old habits, and second chances.
HeavenScribe: Part One
by Christine Nolfi
2015
Zobie Marsh, a young woman burdened with prophecy, flees home and lands in a mystery far bigger than herself. When grieving homemaker Bel Petersen receives a dying man's message, the two are drawn into a spiritual battle against the coming Dimming.
Heavenscribe: Part Three
by Christine Nolfi
2015
Zobie and Bel move deeper into their calling as their gifts sharpen and the wider purpose of HeavenScribe comes into focus. This short installment pushes the spiritual mystery forward and works best read right after the first two parts.
Heavenscribe: Part Two
by Christine Nolfi
2015
Zobie and Bel begin unraveling what it means to be Primaries, with angels, visions, and a strange rose arbor pushing them onward. As Bel's own gifts awaken, the series deepens from eerie setup into a full spiritual quest.
Sweet Lake
by Christine Nolfi
2017
Linnie Wayfair is trying to restore the family inn, hold her town together, and ignore the feelings everyone thinks she should admit. Then a shocking turn of events reopens old family wounds and changes the future she thought she controlled.
The Comfort of Secrets
by Christine Nolfi
2017
After a business failure, Cat Mendoza is desperate to prove she can succeed as events director at the restored Wayfair Inn. But in Sweet Lake, advice is free, secrets run deep, and Ryan D'Angelo may be harder to resist than she expected.
The Season of Silver Linings
by Christine Nolfi
2018
Pastry chef Jada Brooks finally sees a future with widower Philip Kettering and his young daughter, until a curious guest stirs up the town tragedy she has never escaped. To move forward, Jada has to face the truth about family, guilt, and love.
The Road She Left Behind
by Christine Nolfi
2019
Darcy Goodridge returns to her Ohio home after her young nephew disappears, reopening wounds from the crash that killed her father and sister. The search pulls her into a decades-old secret and the life, and love, she left behind.
The Passing Storm
by Christine Nolfi
2021
Grieving Rae Langdon shelters a troubled teenager at her family's struggling Ohio farm during a brutal winter. Their shared pain draws hidden truths into the open and forces Rae to fight for a fragile second chance.
A Brighter Flame
by Christine Nolfi
2022
When her Pittsburgh bar goes up in flames, Vale Lightner heads home to Philadelphia and the family she never felt part of. Clashing memories, old resentments, and her half sister's crisis force three women to face what really happened years ago.
A Heart Like Home
by Christine Nolfi
2024
When Nova Doubeck agrees to foster two deeply wounded siblings, temporary care quickly becomes far more personal. As their abusive father fights to reclaim them, Nova must confront buried secrets and decide what family is worth protecting.
The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves
by Christine Nolfi
2025
Claire Shelton takes a cataloging job at the Maine estate of reclusive heiress Hanna Reeves and discovers a hidden library filled with family journals. The deeper Claire reads, the more old loyalties, love affairs, and buried truths begin reshaping both women's lives.
The Museum of Lost Dreams
by Christine Nolfi
2026
After her parents die, Bess Rollins returns from abroad to her family's estate in the Finger Lakes and the siblings she left behind. Grief, resentment, and long-hidden secrets force her to face the past and the love she walked away from.
Where should I start?
If you want a warm small-town trilogy: Sweet Lake → The Comfort of Secrets → The Season of Silver Linings
If you like emotional family drama: The Road She Left Behind → The Passing Storm → A Brighter Flame
If you want recent standalone novels: A Heart Like Home → The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves → The Museum of Lost Dreams
If you want linked Ohio stories: Second Chance Grill → Treasure Me → The Impossible Wish → Four Wishes
If you want a more mystical read: HeavenScribe: Part One → Heavenscribe: Part Two → Heavenscribe: Part Three
Author bio
Christine Nolfi grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and she still writes with a strong Midwestern feel for family ties, old hurts, and the pull of home. She has also lived in Virginia, California, Utah, and now South Carolina. That movement between places helps explain why so many of her novels are about returning, starting over, or trying to make peace with a place that still has a claim on you.
She started young.
As a child she wrote scenes and stories, and as a teenager she landed pieces in her school literary magazine. She wrote her first novel at nineteen and even turned down an offer to sell it a few years later, a choice she later looked back on with some disbelief. She was clearly building a writing life long before publishing became her full-time work.
Her first professional break came in her early twenties, when Working Mother bought one of her short stories. Later she worked as a freelance writer and owned a small PR firm in Cleveland. Her official bio also mentions a college lark that landed her on the front page of the Houston Post and wiped out her debt, which tells you her life has rarely been dull. When she moved into fiction full-time, she brought real deadline discipline with her and treated the work like a job that mattered.
Family sits at the center of her work.
Nolfi has written about meeting her four adopted children in the tropics, and about the unusual path her life has taken. Those experiences feed directly into her fiction. Again and again, her novels return to belonging, foster care, adoption, chosen family, and the hard, hopeful work of learning to trust other people. It also helps explain why even her gentlest books take children, caretaking, and family responsibility seriously.
Readers who come to her through Sweet Lake usually stay for the people. That trilogy, Sweet Lake, The Comfort of Secrets, and The Season of Silver Linings, circles around the Wayfair Inn in fictional Sweet Lake, Ohio. The books mix friendship, romance, business trouble, and old pain, all with the feel of a town where everyone notices everything.
Her standalones lean more into family secrets and emotional repair. In The Road She Left Behind, The Passing Storm, A Brighter Flame, and A Heart Like Home, people carrying grief or damage have to face the past instead of outrunning it. She likes reunions, buried truths, and characters who are stronger than they first seem. Even when romance enters the picture, it usually arrives beside a moral tangle or a family wound that has been festering for years.
More recently, The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves and The Museum of Lost Dreams show how much she enjoys hidden histories, complicated women, and houses full of memory. If you go back to the Liberty books, including Second Chance Grill and Treasure Me, or over to the more mystical HeavenScribe trilogy, you can see the same curiosity working in very different modes. She can write a town ensemble, a multi-generational family story, or a spiritual mystery, but the emotional questions stay close.
There are solid career markers along the way, but they never feel like the whole story. The Passing Storm won a gold medal in the International Book Awards. The Road She Left Behind was picked by major magazines for book clubs, and A Brighter Flame was singled out as a strong book club read. Still, what most readers seem to return for is simpler: heart, momentum, and characters who feel bruised but real.
Now based in South Carolina with her husband, Nolfi keeps writing novels about people who have been through a lot and are not done yet. That mix of hurt and hope is really her lane.
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