Elin Hilderbrand Books in Order

One summer at a Nantucket hotel pulls together a manager under pressure, a new front-desk worker chasing motherhood, and a staff full of rivalries and romantic trouble. As a hurricane approaches, everybody's secrets start to crack open.

Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have spent twenty years sharing one moonlit ritual on Nantucket. When one of them vanishes during their annual swim, grief and suspicion force the survivors to face the secrets inside their marriages and friendship.

After her husband dies in a plane crash, Beth Newton brings her family to Nantucket to hold on to one last tradition. A summer houseguest, teenage heartbreak, and an old secret turn the season into a test of what the family can survive.

Broke and starting over, Adrienne Dealey lands a job at Nantucket's hottest restaurant and falls for its charismatic owner. But the kitchen has its own emotional weather, and the mystery around chef Fiona and the restaurant's final season pulls Adrienne in deep.

Former chef Marguerite Beale has been hiding from the world until her goddaughter arrives on Nantucket with questions about the past. Over one hot August day, old loyalties, buried grief, and family secrets come rushing back.

Three women escape to Nantucket carrying illness, betrayal, infertility, and more than a little exhaustion. What starts as a retreat becomes a summer of confession, temptation, and the kind of friendship that can steady a life in free fall.

Claire Danner seems to have the full Nantucket life, a family, a career, and a major gala to run. Then working closely with billionaire Lock Dixon sparks an attraction that threatens to upend everything she has built.

When Greg and Tess MacAvoy drown off Nantucket on their anniversary, their closest friends are left with shock, guilt, and unanswered questions. Their grief soon uncovers old betrayals and the fragile truths behind seemingly perfect marriages.

After a wedding is called off and more bad news follows, Birdie Cousins gathers her family on remote Tuckernuck Island. Away from phones and routine, the women face heartbreak, old love, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Ruined by her husband's financial crimes, Meredith Martin Delinn flees to Nantucket at the invitation of an old friend. The island offers privacy and second chances, but it also forces her to reckon with shame, friendship, and the life she might still reclaim.

A graduation night crash shatters Nantucket, leaving one teen dead and another in a coma. As families and friends pick through grief and blame, the novel traces how one accident exposes heartbreak, first love, and the quiet damage people miss until it's too late.

A Nantucket wedding should be joyful, especially with the bride following instructions left by her late mother. But as the big day approaches, both families unravel under secrets, doubts, and the pressure of looking happy.

Margot thinks jealousy might jolt her tired marriage back to life, so she nudges her husband toward a surf lesson with his ex. During a Nantucket vacation, memory and desire make her question what is left of their love.

Dabney Kimball Beech has a gift for knowing who belongs together, but her own life is far messier than her success stories suggest. As she tries to set the people she loves on the right path, time and truth begin closing in.

This short prequel to The Matchmaker follows young Dabney Kimball and Clendenin Hughes as college life starts tugging their once certain romance in different directions. It's a quick, tender look at first love before adulthood complicates everything.

Christmas at the Winter Street Inn turns chaotic when Kelley Quinn catches his second wife kissing Santa. With his grown children in their own kinds of trouble, the holiday becomes a funny, messy family reckoning.

On Nantucket, one juicy rumor is enough to light up an entire summer. When gossip starts circling two best friends and the cracks in their marriages, school lives, and ambitions, private trouble turns dangerously public.

A second Nantucket Christmas finds the Quinn family hoping for baptisms, peace, and a festive stroll through town. Instead, surprise guests and revived old tensions threaten to send the holiday off the rails again.

After celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe dies, his three very different ex-wives gather in a crowded Nantucket cottage with their children and a long list of grievances. Grief quickly turns into a weekend of secrets, jealousy, and uneasy connection.

The Quinns are preparing for a holiday wedding, a possible reunion, and a little hard-won peace. Then a massive Nantucket blizzard barrels in, trapping the family with all the problems they hoped Christmas might smooth over.

Estranged twin sisters Harper and Tabitha Frost trade islands, and lives, to help their family and escape old routines. The switch gives them a shot at repair, but their secrets travel just as easily as they do.

With Bart finally home, the Quinn family is set for its happiest Christmas in years. Of course, being a Quinn means love, relief, and fresh complications all arrive under the same roof.

A lavish Nantucket wedding stops cold when a body turns up in the harbor on the morning of the ceremony. As Chief Ed Kapenash questions the guests, the celebration turns into a sharp, stylish whodunit.

Irene Steele learns after her husband's death that he had a secret life on St. John. She and her sons head to the Caribbean for answers and find a sunlit world of lies, grief, and unexpected new beginnings.

The Levin family heads into the turbulent summer of 1969 with war, protests, pregnancy, and private secrets pressing in from every side. From Nantucket to Martha's Vineyard to Vietnam, each sibling is changed by the season.

Irene Steele and her sons return to St. John to unravel the truth about Russ Steele's hidden life and suspicious death. The island is still beautiful, but the answers waiting there are anything but simple.

Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud begin an affair built around one Labor Day weekend a year on Nantucket. Over decades of marriages, children, ambition, and loss, their one-rule arrangement becomes both refuge and reckoning.

This short follow-up revisits Blair, Jessie, and Kirby Levin ten years after the summer that changed them. It is a quick, satisfying check-in on how time reshapes family, memory, and old choices.

Settled at last on St. John, Irene Steele is thrown again when the FBI and new evidence suggest Russ's crash may not have been an accident. The trilogy closes with storms, danger, and long-buried truths coming to the surface.

After novelist Vivian Howe dies in a hit-and-run, she watches one last Nantucket summer from the beyond. Given three small chances to intervene, she tries to protect her children while her own secrets threaten to surface.

In this brief postscript to 28 Summers, Jake McCloud returns to Nantucket for Labor Day weekend 2023 without Mallory. The visit turns memory and absence into the story's real tension.

This collection gathers nine Elin Hilderbrand stories, including returning characters, short follow-ups, and new glimpses of Nantucket life. It's a good pick if you want one more visit with familiar voices and places.

A once grand hotel gets a fresh start under new manager Lizbet Keaton, but demanding guests, staff drama, and the shadow of a 1922 tragedy make the relaunch anything but simple. Everyone wants a five-key success story, for different reasons.

Food blogger Hollis Shaw invites a best friend from each stage of her life to Nantucket after her husband's death. What should be healing quickly turns messy as old love, resentment, and a few hidden agendas join the guest list.

Sophia Othonos boards a Galapagos cruise alone after her boyfriend cancels the trip they were supposed to take together. What follows is a short, sharp story about disappointment, self-discovery, and changing course.

When the rich, flashy Richardsons buy a huge Nantucket summer house, the whole island starts orbiting their money and drama. Then the season turns darker, and Chief Ed Kapenash finds himself facing one last tangled mystery.

At Tiffin Academy, a sudden jump in the rankings should feel like a triumph. Instead, blind items, rivalries, and hidden agendas turn the school year into a whirl of scandal for students and staff alike.

This is Hilderbrand's insider guide to Nantucket, built around beaches, shops, restaurants, and favorite island spots. Scenes from her fiction and watercolor art make it part travel book, part companion to the novels.

Senior year at Tiffin Academy brings college pressure, shifting loyalties, and fresh secrets for the school's inner circle. As relationships splinter and old questions return, the campus drama gets even sharper.