Elisabeth Ogilvie Books in Order

Joanna Bennett longs to captain a lobster boat despite her island community’s expectations for women. Marriage to a charming newcomer initially offers happiness, but his emerging secrets force her to draw on the independence others have discouraged.

Joanna Bennett returns with her new husband Nils to restore their abandoned island home. Rebuilding houses and reclaiming fishing grounds demand shared effort, while habits formed during her earlier marriage threaten the trust their own future requires.

With Bennett’s Island depleted by wartime departures, Joanna raises her son and waits for her husband’s return. An unwanted lodger proves unexpectedly helpful, and growing affection challenges her loyalty while old troubles continue to shadow island life.

Nurse Miriam Chase enters the troubled home of the Camerons, a once-prominent Maine shipbuilding family. While their widowed mother retreats from reality, her sons clash over reviving the shipyard, preserving the household, and selling the family property.

Ogilvie recounts making a home on Gay’s Island off the Maine coast. Buying a long-empty house with Dorothy and Guy Simpson becomes the beginning of an island life shaped by the landscape, neighbors, and the demands of living there.

War widow Philippa Marshall becomes a teacher on Bennett’s Island, hoping to provide for her son. Defending neglected children draws her into a feud between fishing families, while feelings for Steve Bennett challenge her attachment to the past.

After his father is lost at sea, young Jamie remains on an island off the Maine coast to help his family. Set in 1820, the story follows a boy whose responsibilities at home shape his life by the water.

Sixteen-year-old Cass expects a summer job and independence, but family responsibilities keep her home with her brother and the blueberry crop. New friendships and unexpected crises force her to develop confidence and reconsider what growing up requires.

Ellen returns to Bennett’s Island before beginning art school, confident that marriage belongs in the distant future. A summer of changing friendships and romantic possibilities unsettles her plans, especially when Joey proposes and asks her to choose a different path.

Craig Atwood returns to his Maine island family after eight unexplained years away, disrupting his wife Megan’s plans to remarry. Their son welcomes him eagerly, but Megan grows increasingly alarmed by his behavior and the secrets behind his return.

Feeling out of place among her cousins, Vicky discovers a neglected island community struggling with poverty and isolation. New friendships draw her into an effort to help its forgotten residents in a story inspired by an incident in Maine history.

Giles Whitney has spent his life near the water, following a family tradition of fishing. As the lobster boat he has been building approaches completion, his wife hopes the new vessel will bring him the good fortune he needs.

Sixteen-year-old Burnley Wilder wins an essay contest and chooses a Maine island instead of a cash prize. Her younger siblings dismiss the decision at first, but the chance to explore their unexpected property soon draws them in.

After their father’s death, nineteen-year-old Clarie Tanner insists on running his Maine lobster business with her younger brother. Island opposition, winter dangers and unresolved feelings for Paul Ryder test her confidence in taking responsibility for their future.

Entering her final school year, Cass Phillips hopes to join a prestigious social group. An insecure classmate’s dependence complicates that ambition, while worries about Adam, now away at college, challenge her ideas about friendship and romance.

Monica and Martin borrow a stay at their family’s Maine island house, hoping to recapture happy memories. Their secret impersonation becomes dangerous when strange noises, a missing chess set and troubling behavior suggest that something is wrong at Sea House.

Feeling trapped by marriage and old emotional wounds, Vanessa Barton arrives on Bennett’s Island reluctantly. A connection with Owen Bennett begins changing her outlook, but renewed misfortune forces her to choose between withdrawal and a more independent future.

An eighteen-year-old looks back on growing up in poverty near a Maine fishing village. After their mother’s death, she and her twin brother struggle to hold the family together and dream of recovering their former home.

A woman finds her life overshadowed by unseen tormentors and by doubts about the man she loves. As their pressures drive her toward despair, she struggles to understand who is behind the threats surrounding her.

Piano teacher Seafair Bell joins her pupil Miranda on Drummond’s Island for a summer of music and leisure. Competing affections and concealed jealousy gradually darken the visit, turning a seemingly idyllic holiday toward a dangerous confrontation.

New York editor Miriam Gould discovers hidden letters among her late mother’s possessions. Troubled by loneliness and unanswered questions about her father, she travels to a small Maine town to uncover the family history her mother kept from her.

Unexpected violence disrupts a quiet Maine village when strangers arrive in early spring. The season’s apparent calm gives way to danger, drawing the community into a suspenseful encounter with people whose presence unsettles familiar rural life.

Escaping divorce and gossip, Rosa Fleming finds refuge and renewed confidence on Bennett’s Island. A conflict between local lobstermen and outsiders draws her into a rescue, testing both her growing strength and the new romance she has begun.

A husband and wife on the rugged Maine coast struggle with problems involving their children. As changing expectations disturb family life, the couple searches for help and resources that might resolve the difficulties within their household.

Astrid Prince believes her loving marriage can withstand whatever is troubling her husband. When Graham announces that he is leaving with the babysitter, she must confront the collapse of the stable life she thought they shared.

A young woman researching the ancestry of a Scottish clan arrives in Brierbrae, Nova Scotia. As she traces the family’s connection to the Earl of Strathcorran, a series of nearly fatal attacks threatens its male descendants.

Folklorist and aspiring novelist Mariana Grange travels to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to investigate her great-grandmother’s history. Her search leads her to the Standing Stones of Callanish and into a mystery entwined with the islands and her family.

Val and Alix are delighted when their family inherits half an island off Maine. Their excitement turns to fear as unexplained howls and a disturbing discovery suggest someone wants to drive them away from their inheritance.

Raised as sisters under harsh parents on the Maine coast, two young women begin questioning their origins. Their attempt to establish their parentage and claim an inheritance draws them into violence that threatens far more than their financial future.

In 1809, orphaned Jennie marries a soldier and moves to the Scottish Highlands. Discovering his involvement in tenant evictions divides love from conscience, leading her to aid resistance and eventually flee with a fugitive relative.

Fleeing the Highland Clearances, Jennie and the fugitive Alick sail to Maine under assumed identities as husband and wife. They begin new working lives, but her wish to return to England conflicts with their deepening connection.

A stranger purchases property on Bennett’s Island and arrives aboard an expensive lobster boat, stirring local suspicion. As residents continue their ordinary routines, unsettling tensions develop beneath the surface of the close-knit Maine fishing community.

Two musician sisters return to Maine carrying the shadow of an old financial and romantic scandal. When novelist Eden Winter discovers them murdered, the search for their killer exposes secrets beneath the coastal town’s peaceful appearance.

Joanna and Nils Sorensen maintain a challenging but comfortable life on Bennett’s Island. The arrival of two young men hoping to escape their past introduces questions of loyalty, ethics, and belonging into the familiar community.

Nearly twenty years after escaping Scotland, Jennie and Alick Glenroy have built a prosperous Maine family. Their children’s independence brings conflict, while a visitor from the couple’s fugitive past threatens everything they have worked to establish.