Cottage on Gooseberry Bay Books in Order

Ainsley pauses her search for her forgotten family to enjoy her first Christmas in Gooseberry Bay. Volunteering at the town festival brings new friendships, but a body discovered in the tree lot turns seasonal preparations into an investigation.

Ainsley gains a potential ally in her search for her forgotten family when she meets Adam Winchester. Meanwhile, she and her new friends investigate what happened to a family that vanished from Gooseberry Bay five Thanksgivings earlier.

A group of teenagers asks Ainsley to find a missing physicist whom police believe has simply gone traveling. Unsure whether he is in danger, she agrees to investigate while recruiting help for Gooseberry Bay's annual haunted house.

Ainsley's growing investigation business brings clients searching for an unnamed father and a vanished social-media influencer. Between these cases, she continues probing her own past, hoping to locate the sister whose existence she only recently discovered.

A young woman arrives in Gooseberry Bay with a charm bracelet found beside her when she was abandoned as a baby. Ainsley agrees to help trace its clues, hoping they will lead to the woman's birth mother.

Four visiting friends compete to charm local women over Valentine's Day, but one ends up dead. Parker's reporting pulls Ainsley into the investigation, while new information about her own missing family complicates an already eventful weekend.

Ainsley finds a confused man in a bloodstained Santa suit who cannot remember his identity. Evidence links a similarly dressed man to a murder, but she doubts the apparent explanation and searches for the truth behind his arrest.

A woman returning to Gooseberry Bay remembers witnessing a kidnapping there as a child and hires Ainsley to prove it happened. Finding evidence decades later means untangling a memory police dismissed and a mystery that remained hidden.

Skeet and the Geek Squad win an invitation to an exclusive geocaching group with valuable prizes. Suspecting something beyond innocent treasure hunts, they ask Ainsley to investigate while she awaits an important meeting of her own.

A woman hires Ainsley to find the daughter she believed died at birth twelve years earlier. Investigating the father's decision to conceal the truth leaves Ainsley wrestling with conflicting feelings about the search she has undertaken.

Ainsley and her friends help Gooseberry Bay prepare its haunted house and Halloween celebrations. When someone close to their group turns up dead, the festive season becomes a personal mystery that threatens their tightly knit community.

Ainsley plans to enjoy Christmas with her Gooseberry Bay friends until she discovers a baby on her doorstep. A note asks her to protect the child until her mother returns, leaving Ainsley searching for answers during the holiday.

A client buys the contents of a storage garage at an auction and discovers a clue to a long-unsolved mystery. Ainsley Holloway takes the case, hoping the forgotten belongings can finally reveal what happened years earlier.

Gooseberry Bay prepares an elaborate wedding for its prominent family, with nearly every merchant helping. When the demanding bride turns up dead, the celebration becomes a mystery while Ainsley navigates changes in her own relationships.

Ainsley is hired to stop a landlord from evicting twelve families just before Christmas. As Gooseberry Bay prepares its Winter Ball and Bexley finds foster homes for puppies, the investigator faces a holiday crisis with vulnerable residents at stake.

Ainsley joins Parker on a stakeout that goes badly wrong. While she anticipates her sister Avery’s visit and time with Adam during the academy’s summer closure, the consequences threaten the quieter season she had hoped to enjoy.

Church bells ring across Gooseberry Bay for the first time since a pastor’s daughter vanished on Christmas Eve ten years earlier. The unexpected sound draws Ainsley and her friends into the unresolved disappearance as another Christmas approaches.

A murder at Gooseberry Bay’s beach movie event mirrors a killing in the film being shown. Ainsley doubts the new deputy’s chosen suspect and investigates a troubling stranger while the obvious alternatives seem protected by solid alibis.

Ainsley discovers a substitute teacher’s body beneath school bleachers, and the evidence implicates a troubled student named Justice. Convinced the case is less straightforward than it appears, she investigates buried histories and dangerous secrets to clear his name.

A client searching for her biological parents dies in a crash that also kills Gooseberry Bay’s fire chief. Evidence of deliberate interference sends Ainsley, Parker, and Dani into an investigation linking both victims through long-hidden secrets.

Gooseberry Bay’s Christmas play becomes a murder investigation when its star is found dead. Helping Deputy Dani Dixon, Ainsley sorts through actors, crew members, and hidden motives to discover which backstage secrets conceal a killer.

A new food truck owner challenges Josie’s fried-food business, turning competition into a personal feud. When one of the rival caterers dies, suspicion falls on the other, threatening the Gooseberry Bay community as Ainsley and her friends confront new changes.