Jennifer Bohnet Books in Order
Browse Jennifer Bohnet books in order, with quick summaries, where-to-start tips, and background on her warm France-set and seaside standalones.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Making Waves at River View Cottage
by Jennifer Bohnet
2003
Cassie Lewis has spent two decades putting everyone else first at the family boatyard in Dartmouth. When a sailing accident turns her daughter's plans upside down, Cassie is pushed to rethink love, risk, and her own future.
For the Love of the Sea
by Jennifer Bohnet
2006
Widow Cassie Lewis has spent years keeping the Devon boatyard and her family going. When disaster strikes, she is forced to face change at home and ask whether there is still room in her life for hope.
French Legacy
by Jennifer Bohnet
2007
Widowed Nicola moves with her son to his late father's olive farm in the south of France, where inheritance, family tension, and a hard-headed grandfather shape every choice. Building an independent life there proves harder, and richer, than she expected.
Where the Sun Shines Brighter
by Jennifer Bohnet
2007
Blackmailed into moving to France for her son Oliver's inheritance, Nicola must deal with her interfering ex-father-in-law and the pull of a new life. As she settles into the countryside, love and loyalty grow complicated.
Follow Your Star
by Jennifer Bohnet
2010
Living in Monaco once felt glamorous for Nanette, until a crash shattered everything. When she is drawn back years later, she finds herself facing dangerous secrets, unfinished feelings, and a past she never really understood.
Rendezvous in Cannes
by Jennifer Bohnet
2010
At the Cannes Film Festival, Anna and journalist Daisy arrive with very different hopes for the week ahead. Behind the parties and red-carpet sparkle, old secrets and big decisions start to change both their lives.
I'm Virtually Yours
by Jennifer Bohnet
2013
Virtual assistant Polly takes an on-site job at a Devon boatyard and ends up tangled in the Robertson family's business and private lives. A little mystery, a little romance, and a summer by the sea keep things moving.
Shadows of Conflict
by Jennifer Bohnet
2013
Katie expects quiet days running a Dartmouth wool shop, but a film crew digging into wartime secrets brings old tensions back to life. As her own future pulls in two directions, the past refuses to stay buried.
You Had me at Bonjour
by Jennifer Bohnet
2014
After a messy divorce, Jessica heads to the south of France for a year and swears romance is off the table. New neighbors, a changing relationship with her daughter, and the pull of a new life test that promise.
A French Pirouette
by Jennifer Bohnet
2015
A retiring ballerina, a widow chasing a long-held dream, and a woman facing retirement all find themselves in Brittany at a turning point. Their paths cross around an auberge, where fresh starts begin to feel possible.
The Little Kiosk by the Sea
by Jennifer Bohnet
2015
In Dartmouth, Sabine is trying to save her little kiosk just as old secrets and new arrivals stir up the town. Several intertwined lives meet at the water's edge in a warm story of change, memory, and second chances.
Rosie’s Little Café on the Riviera
by Jennifer Bohnet
2017
Rosie finally opens her dream café on the Riviera, only to find a celebrated chef launching a rival restaurant next door. Between business trouble, old feelings, and loyal friends, she has to fight for the life she wants.
Summer at Coastguard Cottages
by Jennifer Bohnet
2017
Eight weeks on the Devon coast bring Karen, Bruce, and Carrie to a row of cottages where each is trying to start over. New friendships, old grief, and unexpected choices turn a seaside summer into something life changing.
A Year of Taking Chances
by Jennifer Bohnet
2018
Best friends Tina and Jodie promised themselves change before they turned thirty, but only one of them seems to have found it. As Tina tries to rebuild her career and confidence, both women learn that big leaps rarely go to plan.
Villa of Sun and Secrets
by Jennifer Bohnet
2019
Carla escapes a cheating husband and recent bereavement by tracking down her mother's estranged sister in Antibes. What begins as a break becomes a deeper search through family history, old wounds, and unexpected new hope.
A French Affair
by Jennifer Bohnet
2020
Sent to help revive a rundown campsite in Brittany, Belinda is pulled back into the place where her teenage life fell apart. Old memories, half-told family stories, and the possibility of a fresh start collide over Christmas.
A Riviera Retreat
by Jennifer Bohnet
2020
A competition getaway on the Côte d'Azur brings four very different women together at the perfect moment. As friendships deepen, each of them is pushed to rethink love, loss, and what happiness might look like now.
Falling for a French Dream
by Jennifer Bohnet
2021
Nicola and her son Oliver move to his late father's family olive farm above the Riviera, where grief, family feuds, and a forceful grandfather complicate everything. Restoring a cottage and building a new life may be her bravest step yet.
One Summer in Monte Carlo
by Jennifer Bohnet
2021
Nanette returns to Monaco to care for a friend's children, even though the city holds painful memories of a crash that ended her old life. With Formula One season underway, the past is impossible to avoid.
Summer at the Château
by Jennifer Bohnet
2021
After her husband's death, Pixie inherits a Breton château and a mysterious lodger with a small son. She arrives planning to sell, but the summer uncovers hidden connections, family secrets, and reasons to stay a little longer.
Christmas on the Riviera
by Jennifer Bohnet
2022
Raised by her grandmother after her mother vanished, Elodie heads to Juan-les-Pins for a Christmas trip that could change everything. Festive lights, buried hurts, and the chance of a long-delayed reunion make this a tender family drama.
The Villa of Second Chances
by Jennifer Bohnet
2022
Rebecca helps run Villa Sésame, a Riviera wedding venue, until her widowed sister announces she wants a new life. As a June wedding fills the villa with complicated guests and old emotions, Rebecca has to decide what comes next.
Summer on the French Riviera
by Jennifer Bohnet
2023
Gabriella, Harriet, and Elodie end up under the same roof in the south of France after years of estrangement. As old hurts resurface, the three women must face the past before they can become a family again.
A French Adventure
by Jennifer Bohnet
2024
A writers' retreat on the Riviera brings Vivienne, Maxine, and Olivia together just as each woman reaches a crisis point. Friendship, honesty, and the sunny rhythms of Antibes help them imagine different futures.
A French Inheritance
by Jennifer Bohnet
2025
After loss, divorce, and redundancy, Briony travels to the French Riviera to hear the last wishes of her beloved grandmother. There she crosses paths with Elliot, a man nursing troubles of his own, and both are pushed toward a new beginning.
Secrets Beneath a Riviera Sky
by Jennifer Bohnet
2025
Agnes is forced back to Cannes after her abusive husband dies, and his final arrangements threaten to wound her one last time. With her daughter and granddaughter beside her, buried family secrets finally come into the open.
New Chapters on the French Riviera
by Jennifer Bohnet
2026
Grieving chef Guy Lyon reluctantly reopens Villa Celestia for a last-minute writers' retreat on the Riviera. As the guests settle in, shared meals, creative blocks, and unexpected connections begin to shift everyone's story.
Where should I start?
If you want a classic Riviera escape: Rosie’s Little Café on the Riviera → Villa of Sun and Secrets → A Riviera Retreat
If you like family secrets and second chances: Summer on the French Riviera → Secrets Beneath a Riviera Sky → A French Inheritance
If you want friendship and fresh starts: A French Adventure → New Chapters on the French Riviera
If you prefer Devon and coastal stories: The Little Kiosk by the Sea → Summer at Coastguard Cottages → Making Waves at River View Cottage
Author bio
Jennifer Bohnet grew up in Somerset, in England's West Country, and the sea has never been far from her imagination. Dartmouth on the South Devon coast matters to her personally too. She met her husband there, lived there in the early years of marriage, and their two children were born there. That mix of West Country coastline and French sunshine has shaped much of her fiction.
Writing was not something she suddenly discovered later on. She has said she was always writing while juggling a wide mix of jobs, including bookselling, running a restaurant, office work, and plenty more besides. Those working lives gave her a strong feel for ordinary people, everyday pressure, and the way big emotional moments are often tangled up with practical problems.
Before the novels came the magazine years. She wrote short stories and serials for UK women's magazines, and her work also appeared in newspapers and lifestyle magazines. For more than three years she wrote a newspaper column that took a wry look at family life, which helps explain why her books are often warm, lightly funny, and interested in the details of how people actually live.
Then came France. About twenty-six years ago, Bohnet and her husband Richard set off by bicycle with their elderly dog Holly riding in a trailer, travelled through western France, and arrived in Antibes in July. They stayed, spent eleven years on the Côte d'Azur, and later moved to a cottage in central Brittany. She now writes there surrounded by rural life, with a rescue dog, cats, chickens, and a pond full of fish.
That move changed the books too.
A lot of Bohnet's fiction is built around women at a crossroads, often a little older, a little wiser, and not interested in starting from scratch unless they have to. In Rosie’s Little Café on the Riviera, Villa of Sun and Secrets, A French Affair, and Summer on the French Riviera, the pleasures are easy to see: friendship, family complications, beautiful food, strong settings, and the sense that a difficult life can still bend toward something better.
The sea keeps showing up as well. Books like Rendezvous in Cannes, One Summer in Monte Carlo, Making Waves at River View Cottage, and The Little Kiosk by the Sea mix glamour or coastal charm with grief, secrets, or hard choices. Even when the stakes are serious, Bohnet writes in a grounded way. Her characters worry about money, work, parents, children, homes, and whether a fresh start is brave or just plain exhausting.
She writes comfort reads, but not empty ones.
That balance is probably why readers keep coming back. Her novels often carry old family damage, betrayals, lost chances, and people who have been knocked sideways by life. But they also have markets, kitchens, terraces, village gossip, dogs underfoot, and the slow building of trust. Recent books such as A French Adventure, Secrets Beneath a Riviera Sky, A French Inheritance, and New Chapters on the French Riviera keep that same mix of warmth, place, and second chances at the center.
Bohnet is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Authors, and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. These days she is still living in France, still writing stories split between the Riviera, Brittany, and Devon, and still making time for reading, country walks, and the kind of long French lunches that can drift through an entire afternoon.
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