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See the Coleman series by Katie Winters in order, with book summaries, family tree context, and suggestions on how to navigate this Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard saga.

Last updated: December 24, 2025

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Heart of Hope

by Katie Winters

2026

In a later chapter of the Coleman saga, new romances, longstanding marriages, and grown children all collide during a pivotal island summer. Facing crossroads in career, health, and love, the family must decide what kind of future they want to write together.

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Whispers of Nantucket

by Katie Winters

2025

Rumors and long kept secrets swirl around the Colemans as another summer opens on Nantucket. When a new project threatens to dredge up the past, family members must decide whether to keep quiet or finally say aloud what everyone has been tiptoeing around for years.

3

Saltwater Secrets

by Katie Winters

2025

A reclusive widow on Nantucket hires Hilary and Aria Coleman to restore her estate, opening doors that have been closed for twenty five years. As generations share stories and scars, the project becomes a catalyst for healing old hurts on both sides of the relationship.

4

Footprints in the Sand

by Katie Winters

2025

A home swap between Greece and Martha's Vineyard gives two women the chance to step into each others lives. As Dimitra and Eva trade landscapes and secrets, the Coleman family becomes an unexpected source of comfort, challenging both women to consider entirely new futures.

5

April Flowers

by Katie Winters

2025

Florist Margot fled Nantucket after a family tragedy and built a solitary life in Boston. Called home for the first time in years, she confronts an old love, a complicated friendship, and the truth about the night that drove her away.

6

Winter Sun

by Katie Winters

2024

Katrina Coleman struggles to support her pregnant daughter Sophie while caring for her own ailing mother and reliving the familys history with addiction. A winter of difficult conversations, painful memories, and unexpected grace asks both women to imagine a healthier legacy for the next generation.

7

Stroke of Luck

by Katie Winters

2024

Aspiring chef Rachelle Coleman lands a dream job assisting a famous TV cooking duo on Nantucket, only to find the partnership crumbling behind the scenes. As she bonds with the older host and sees the cost of fame, Rachelle rethinks what success and solidarity between women should look like.

8

Labor of Love

by Katie Winters

2024

Patriarch Reese Coleman invites his estranged son Joel back to Martha's Vineyard with a tempting business proposal, stirring up decades old tension. Meanwhile, Darcy Coleman grapples with her sisters move abroad and dreams of a career of her own, leading to a fateful trip to Rome.

9

A Silver Lining

by Katie Winters

2024

Ida Colemans world tilts when a trusted friend betrays her, just as her daughter Frankie returns home aimless after college. As mother and daughter confront hard truths about trust, a surprising proposal offers Frankie a path forward she never saw coming.

10

Waves of Time

by Katie Winters

2023

Interior designer Hilary Coleman juggles cross country projects with her daughter Aria while hiding a worsening eye condition that could end her career. As medical crises and old loves resurface, she is forced to lean on the Coleman clan instead of pretending she can handle everything alone.

11

Threads of Hope

by Katie Winters

2023

Art dealer Oriana Coleman built her reputation on never making mistakes, but a forgery from early in her career resurfaces with blackmail attached. To save her name, she must finally admit who she was back then and trust her far flung family with the truth.

12

The Jessabelle House

by Katie Winters

2023

Social worker Samantha Coleman inherits her great aunts crumbling Nantucket estate and sees a chance to escape a toxic marriage. Renovating the Jessabelle House with her daughters, she uncovers family diaries and long buried Coleman secrets that force her to redefine loyalty and strength.

13

Love Runs Deep

by Katie Winters

2023

Decades after a tragic accident, Charlie Coleman still carries guilt for surviving when others did not. When his daughter falls for the great nephew of the woman most hurt that night, Charlie and Nora are pushed into each others orbit to finally face what really happened.

14

Heart of Christmas

by Katie Winters

2023

Bestselling romance author Estelle Coleman is accused of plagiarism by a rival determined to see her fall. As the scandal explodes online, flashbacks to a fraught Christmas in 1971 reveal how their lives first intersected and what it will take for Estelle to fight for her name.

15

Autumn Skies & Pumpkin Pies

by Katie Winters

2023

Meghan Colemans cozy marriage shatters when she discovers a box of love letters from her husbands former fianc. Reeling, she strikes up an unexpected friendship with a weary bookstore owner caring for his difficult mother, and together they uncover just how intertwined their families really are.

Series background & context

The Coleman series is one of Katie Winterss most expansive family sagas, stretching across multiple generations and swinging back and forth between Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard, and cities beyond. At its center is the wealthy, complicated Coleman clan, a family that has built businesses and reputations on the islands while leaving a trail of hurt feelings and unresolved history behind them.

It begins with The Jessabelle House, when Samantha Coleman, a forty something social worker newly divorced from a controlling husband, inherits the home of her Great Aunt Jessabelle near the village of Siasconset on Nantucket. Sam moves in with her daughters and, through her aunts diaries and the state of the old house, uncovers stories about past betrayals and the ways the Colemans have tried to hide their messes instead of cleaning them up. Renovating the house becomes a way for her to rebuild her own sense of self and demand better from her family.

In Love Runs Deep, Winters shifts focus to Charlie Coleman, once the golden boy of Nantucket, now a grandfather still carrying guilt from a tragic accident thirty years earlier. When his grown daughter falls in love with the great nephew of the woman who suffered most that night, old wounds are ripped open. Waves of Time, Threads of Hope, and Autumn Skies & Pumpkin Pies follow other branches of the family tree, from a high powered art dealer with a buried professional mistake to a florist and a bookseller who meet while caring for difficult parents.

As the series continues with Heart of Christmas, Winter Sun, Stroke of Luck, Labor of Love, and A Silver Lining, the scope widens further. Some books center on long married couples facing career shifts or health scares; others focus on adult children deciding whether they want to stay tied to the Coleman legacy or strike out on their own. Later installments like Whispers of Nantucket, April Flowers, Saltwater Secrets, and Heart of Hope bring even more of the extended family into play, including characters who have lived abroad, veterans returning home, and islanders who have always watched the Colemans from a distance.

Throughout, Winters keeps returning to a few core questions. How do you forgive someone who hurt you in your teens now that you are middle aged? What does it mean to tell the truth about your family when that truth threatens peoples public image? And can love that began in youth actually survive once people are honest about who they have become?

The Coleman books are linked, but each tends to give one or two characters the spotlight, making it possible to start with the premise that appeals most. Readers who stick with the whole series will see side characters blossom, secrets reveal themselves layer by layer, and a flawed but ultimately loving family learn, slowly, to do better by one another.

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All 15 Coleman Books in Order (Complete List 2026)