Jenny Hale Books in Order

After a car accident leaves her hovering between life and death, Ava St. John hears a voice offering a choice and urging her to find Lucas Phillips, the boy she has not seen since she was fifteen. Back in her Tennessee hometown, her search for Lucas forces her to question her faith, her past decisions, and what truly matters.

A decade after her mother’s death, Emmy Brewer still feels stuck, going through the motions each December. When her sister keeps inviting childhood neighbor and old crush Charlie Russell to family Christmas, their once a year meetings slowly change from awkward to electric, pushing Emmy to decide whether love or a new path is her real Christmas wish.

High school guidance counselor Nora Jenkins plans to spend summer alone on the turquoise Gulf Coast, resting after a hard year with a troubled student. Instead she finds that teen, Ivy Ryman, and Ivy’s famous music producer father Blaze on her doorstep, pushing Nora into a makeshift family and a surprising, healing romance.

Reeling from her fiancé’s death, Alicia Silver travels to the snowy Smoky Mountains to visit a legendary covered bridge said to work miracles. There she meets Leo Whitaker, searching for his missing father, and together they confront grief, unanswered prayers, and the possibility of a different kind of Christmas miracle.

After her single father dies, Josie Wills gives up her own plans to raise her autistic teenage brother Nick in their mountain town. Pinning her hopes on his talent, she takes him to a math competition in glamorous Rosemary Beach, where she unexpectedly reunites with first love Julian and stumbles into a secret that could change everything.

A year after losing her fiancé, event planner Lauren Sutton sells her share of their business and takes a job looking after a weathered inn in Rodanthe on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. A strand of sea glass and rugged fisherman Brody Harrison lead her into an old love story and toward healing of her own.

Travel writer Stella Fisher leaves London to spend the first Christmas after her father’s death at the family farmhouse in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. Forced to work closely with Henry Dutton, the man she once walked away from, she uncovers a mystery around a lost necklace and must decide whether her future still lies elsewhere.

When Elizabeth Holloway’s long term boyfriend ends their relationship at Christmas, she flees New York for her family farm in the Great Smoky Mountains. There, with charming visitor Paul Dawson and a bundle of letters from her grandmother, she uncovers a buried family history that tests her loyalties and offers an unexpected new beginning.

On the verge of landing a huge account, Leigh Henderson instead loses her job and is summoned home to her family’s lakeside cabin near Nashville. Reuniting with estranged sister Meredith and first love Colton Harris, she is forced to face old grief, complicated family ties, and the question of who she wants to be next.

Meghan Gray spends the summer at her late grandfather’s cottage on Hatteras Island, hoping the familiar beach will ease her loss. Drawn to quiet local businessman Toby Meyers and a mysterious black and white photograph from her pappy, she uncovers long hidden family truths that could either heal or break her heart.

Magazine editor Hannah Townsend is headed for a tropical vacation when she learns her grandmother is seriously ill and rushes home to Franklin, Tennessee and the family’s fading flower shop. Stranded by a snowstorm and thrown together with businessman Liam McGuire, she faces a threat to the shop, old friendships, and her own carefully planned life.

After her grandmother’s death, Melanie Simpson honors her will by buying a neglected beach house in Rosemary Bay, the coastal town where they once spent happy summers. Working with local contractor Josh Claiborne to restore it, she uncovers a stack of old letters and a decades old love story that could change both of their futures.

Public relations pro Mia Broadhurst returns from New York to the snowy seaside village of Winsted Cape to help her family sell her late grandmother’s lighthouse home. Partnering with widowed real estate agent Will Thacker, she discovers a hidden photograph, a family secret, and a new understanding of what home and love can look like.

Sydney Flynn retreats to Starlight Cottage on Firefly Beach to rebuild her life, only to run into Nate Henderson, the childhood sweetheart who ended their relationship without explanation. As she repairs the house and unravels what really happened between them, Sydney has to decide whether the boy she loved still exists inside the man he has become.

Christmas has been hard for Lila Evans since her father died, so she books a festive escape with friends at Fireside Cabins in the Tennessee mountains. Finding the resort rundown and its widowed owner overwhelmed, Lila teams up with grumpy local coffee shop owner Theo Perry to bring back the holiday magic and maybe open her heart again.

When Hallie Flynn’s beloved Aunt Clara dies, she leaves Hallie the family’s Firefly Beach house and a childhood bucket list to complete before the inheritance is settled. Spending the summer by the ocean with steadfast best friend Ben and intriguing newcomer Gavin, Hallie faces old grief, buried secrets, and a choice that could reshape her life.

For Scarlett Bailey, her grandmother’s old fashioned White Oaks Inn has always been the heart of Christmas. Now financial trouble threatens to shut it down, so she turns to handsome property developer Charlie Bryant for help. As they clash and connect amid baking, tree trimming, and swirling snow, Scarlett must fight for both the inn and her own second chance.

After a bad breakup, single mom Alice Emerson leaves Virginia with her young son Henry and best friend Sasha to turn her late grandfather’s old beachside building into an ice cream shop on the Outer Banks. As the Summer Hideaway takes shape, a reunion with former summer crush Jack Murphy and a discovered locket expose family secrets and fresh chances at love.

Holly McAdams and her grandmother head to the family’s snow covered cabin outside Nashville for their first Christmas without Holly’s grandfather, only to find New York financier Joseph Barnes already renting it and stranded by a storm. As Holly helps plan Joseph’s wedding and reconnects with hometown musician Rhett, she must decide which future she truly wants.

Single mom Noelle Parker returns to her family’s cozy bakery just as it is on the verge of closing. Taking a job caring for gruff, elderly William Harrington in his grand mansion, she brings Christmas back into his life and slowly falls for his grandson Alexander, all while fighting to save the shop that holds her happiest memories.

Best friends Callie Weaver and Olivia Dixon pour their savings into a rundown beach house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, determined to turn it into a bed and breakfast. While sanding floors and uncovering a hidden diary, Callie falls for charming heir Luke Sullivan and discovers secrets that could upend his family and their fragile new business.

Burned out by city life, Emily Tate returns to her family’s farm and the quiet charm of Oyster Bay. Working at the elegant Water’s Edge Inn, she falls for reserved owner Charles Peterson even as his ambitious expansion plans threaten the small town and shoreline she is determined to protect.

Leah Evans plans one last Christmas at her grandmother’s Virginia plantation house, then discovers she has inherited only half and must share it with childhood friend David Forester. As they decorate the crumbling mansion and make it sparkle for Leah’s young daughter, old memories kindle new feelings and force them to decide whose dreams will change.

After losing her job, apartment, and fiancé in New York, Libby Potter heads back to the Virginia bayside town she left in pursuit of success. Renovating a beloved cottage and facing the man whose heart she once broke, Pete Bennett, she has to choose between the life she chased and the home she never really stopped loving.

Years after her sister Casey stole the boy she loved, Faith agrees to a family holiday at their old beach house to honor their grandmother’s wishes. There she meets new owner Jake Buchanan and is forced to confront old betrayal, buried feelings, and the possibility of a different kind of happy ending.

Single mom Abbey Fuller puts her interior design dreams on hold to support her son, until a friend lands her a decorating job for billionaire Nicholas Sinclair’s mansion. Bringing warmth and Christmas magic into his stark home, she must decide if she can risk her heart on a man who has forgotten how to enjoy the holidays.

Nanny Carrie Blake accepts one final position caring for the children of wealthy, work obsessed single dad Adam Fletcher over Christmas. As she decorates the house and draws him into snowball fights and tree trimming, Carrie begins to imagine a future in the home she meant to leave behind.

When Libby Potter loses her dream job, her apartment, and her fiancé in one blow, she retreats to the small Chesapeake Bay town she once could not wait to leave. Fixing up her childhood cottage and facing first love Pete Bennett forces her to rethink what a “perfect” life really looks like.

Allie Richfield takes a temporary job managing Ashford Estate, tasked with pulling off one last lavish Christmas for the fractured Marley family before the house is sold. Between feuding relatives, a looming deadline, and an unexpected attraction to serious eldest son Robert, she has one season to mend hearts and save the holiday.