Kristan Higgins Books in Order

Lark Smith’s meticulous life plan falls apart when she’s reassigned from oncology for being “too emotional” and her parents suddenly split up. Agreeing to pose as gruff surgeon Lorenzo Santini’s fake girlfriend for a summer wedding, she’s drawn into his chaotic seaside family and an unexpected second chance at purpose and love.

Cape Cod bookstore owner Harlow Smith has told no one about the baby she placed for adoption at seventeen. When her eighteen-year-old son, Matthew, walks into her shop—and his adoptive mother discovers the truth—two families must navigate shock, jealousy and gratitude to figure out what comes next.

Nurse-midwife Lillie Silva expects to face empty-nest blues when her son leaves for college, not a blindsiding divorce the night before his graduation. Furious rather than crushed, she channels her hurt into mischievous revenge and, in the process, stumbles into unexpected friendships and a life built on her own needs.

Socially awkward scientist Joshua Park is lost after the death of his exuberant wife, Lauren. Then a box of twelve letters arrives from her, one for each month of his first year alone, sending him on tiny, terrifying missions that slowly guide him through grief toward a new kind of happiness.

When John Frost suffers a stroke, his wife, Barb, and their daughters, high-achieving Juliet and free-spirited Sadie, are pulled back into the same orbit. As secrets about John’s affair, Barb’s resentment and the sisters’ own messy lives emerge, the family must decide what forgiveness really looks like.

Single mom Emma London reluctantly returns to her estranged grandmother Genevieve’s Connecticut estate when the formidable matriarch announces she’s dying. A summer under one roof—with Emma’s bullied teenage daughter in tow—uncovers old betrayals, buried grief and a surprising chance for three generations to start over together.

Marley and Georgia reunite at the hospital bedside of their friend Emerson, whom they met years ago at a weight-loss camp. After Emerson’s death, they inherit a list of “when we’re thin” dreams and, in chasing those goals, confront body shame, past hurts and the work of self-acceptance.

Kate O’Leary becomes a widow only months into marriage, while her bubbly half sister, Ainsley, is publicly dumped after years of supporting her boyfriend through illness. Forced to share a tiny apartment, they fumble through grief, family secrets and new love, discovering how to truly show up for each other.

After a freak accident and brutal breakup, Boston doctor Nora Stuart retreats to her childhood home on a remote Maine island. Facing a distant mother, a troubled niece and the classmates who once tormented her, she slowly rebuilds her life and decides whether this harsh, beautiful place can ever feel like home.

Seeking a fresh start, wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate leaves Manhattan and her confusingly friendly ex-husband behind to open a shop in Cambry-on-Hudson. As she builds a new life and tentative romance, her sister Rachel’s perfect marriage unravels, testing both women’s ideas about forgiveness and happily-ever-after.

Chef Connor O’Rourke is finally ready to go public and propose to Jessica Dunn after ten years of an on-and-off, mostly secret relationship. But Jess, who’s poured herself into raising her younger brother and building a career, isn’t sure marriage fits into the careful life she’s constructed.

Colleen O’Rourke happily plays matchmaker for everyone else from behind the bar she runs with her twin brother in Manningsport. When her first love, Lucas Campbell, comes back to town for a family crisis, old wounds and irresistible chemistry force them to decide if they’ll risk a second chance.

Police officer Emmaline Neal refuses to appear pathetic at her ex-fiancé’s glamorous Malibu wedding, so she recruits Jack Holland, local hero and town golden boy, as her date. A make-believe romance on the trip turns complicated back home, where both are carrying scars they’ve tried hard to hide.

After her lifelong crush proposes to someone else, vineyard manager Honor Holland agrees to a marriage of convenience with Tom Barlow, a British professor who needs a green card to stay near his unofficial stepson. Their practical deal soon turns into something that feels startlingly like real love.

Faith Holland returns to her family’s Blue Heron Vineyard years after being left at the altar, hoping to reset her life. Facing her ex is hard enough; facing Levi Cooper, the stern police chief and former best man who exposed the truth that day, is even harder—and unexpectedly tempting.

When her father’s scandal wipes out the family fortune, single mom Parker Welles retreats to a rundown cottage in Gideon’s Cove, Maine. Renovating it with James Cahill, her father’s loyal attorney, she learns how to live without money—and starts to see James as more than an obligation.

Posey Osterhagen runs a quirky architectural salvage business and leads a low-key life, until Liam Murphy—the bad boy who once broke her teenage heart—moves back to town as a widowed dad. Their renewed connection forces Posey to decide if she dares trust him, and herself, again.

Divorce attorney Harper James is forced into a cross-country road trip with Nick, the ex-husband she hasn’t seen in years, after their siblings decide to marry. Trapped in a car with old grudges and unresolved chemistry, they’re pushed to confront why their brief marriage failed—and what hasn’t faded.

Young widow Lucy Lang wants a safe, predictable man she’ll never love enough to lose. Ending her casual relationship with Ethan Mirabelli, her late husband’s brother, is supposed to help—but the more she pulls away, the clearer it becomes that he’s what she truly wants.

Callie Grey assumes her boss—and five-week fling—is destined to propose, until he announces his engagement to someone else. In a bid to move on, she starts seeing Ian McFarland, the town’s reserved veterinarian, and unexpectedly falls for the most unlikely bachelor in Vermont.

When Grace Emerson’s ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, she invents a perfect new boyfriend to avoid everyone’s pity. Keeping up the lie gets tricky once she meets Callahan O’Shea, the handsome neighbor with a checkered past who feels dangerously real.

Journalist Chastity O’Neill is tired of being treated like one of the guys by her firefighter brothers and by Trevor Meade, the family friend she’s secretly loved for years. Determined to find a husband, she discovers that changing how others see her means risking her own heart.

Diner owner Maggie Beaumont is famous in Gideon’s Cove, Maine—for disastrous crushes and zero luck in love. After a series of awful blind dates, she begins to see the town’s strong, silent lobsterman, Malone, in a very different and far more hopeful light.

Cape Cod doctor Millie Barnes thinks life will be perfect once her longtime crush finally notices her. But her carefully plotted pursuit of Joe Carpenter keeps colliding with Sam Nickerson, the steady local cop who might be the right man all along.