Lakeshore Chronicles Books in Order
Part ofSusan Wiggs Books in OrderBrowse the Lakeshore Chronicles by Susan Wiggs in order, with short summaries, Willow Lake background, and easy guidance on where to start in Avalon.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
11 books
Summer at Willow Lake
by Susan Wiggs
2006
After a broken engagement, Olivia Bellamy trades Manhattan for a summer restoring her family's crumbling resort in Avalon. Buried secrets, old memories, and new possibilities make Willow Lake feel less like an escape and more like a turning point.
Dockside
by Susan Wiggs
2007
With her daughter grown, Nina Romano is finally ready to live for herself. Then she falls for Greg Bellamy, an inn owner and single father, and discovers that starting over can be just as complicated as raising a family.
The Winter Lodge
by Susan Wiggs
2007
Jenny Majesky loses everything in a house fire, then finds a mystery hidden among her grandfather's things. At a cabin on Willow Lake, she and police chief Rourke McKnight uncover painful truths and an unexpected chance at love.
Snowfall at Willow Lake
by Susan Wiggs
2008
After surviving a hostage crisis overseas, Sophie Bellamy returns to Avalon determined to repair the family bonds she neglected. Small-town life, and local veterinarian Noah Shepherd, offer a quieter future she never expected to want.
Fireside
by Susan Wiggs
2009
Publicist Kimberly van Dorn retreats to Avalon after her life blows up in public. There she crosses paths with baseball hopeful Bo Crutcher, a suddenly single father, and both have to figure out what real stability might look like.
Lakeshore Christmas
by Susan Wiggs
2009
Maureen Davenport finally gets her shot at directing Avalon's holiday pageant, then gets stuck working with grumpy former child star Eddie Haven. Their Christmas clashes turn into a warm, funny second chance at connection.
The Summer Hideaway
by Susan Wiggs
2010
At Willow Lake, people carrying fresh grief and old disappointments find themselves pushed together in one life-changing summer. What begins as refuge slowly turns into a risky second chance at love.
Marrying Daisy Bellamy
by Susan Wiggs
2011
Free-spirited Daisy Bellamy has spent years following her heart, but adulthood brings harder choices than youthful romance promised. She must decide whether the future she imagined still fits the woman she has become.
Return to Willow Lake
by Susan Wiggs
2012
When Sonnet Romano learns her mother is facing a high-risk pregnancy, she drops everything and returns to Avalon. A devastating diagnosis and a reunion with filmmaker Zach Alger force her to rethink love, work, and what home means.
Candlelight Christmas
by Susan Wiggs
2013
Logan O'Donnell wants to give his son the perfect Christmas in Avalon, but newcomer Darcy Fitzgerald is not looking for romance. Their holiday season becomes a tender test of whether guarded hearts can still make room for family.
Starlight on Willow Lake
by Susan Wiggs
2015
Caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the Bellamy estate with her two daughters, hoping for a clean start. Instead she finds old family secrets, new emotional ties, and the chance to rebuild a life that once seemed beyond repair.
Series background & context
The Lakeshore Chronicles are Susan Wiggs in full comfort-read mode, small-town life, family history, second chances, and the kind of lakeside setting that makes people rethink the lives they thought they wanted. The books are set in Avalon, a village on the shores of Willow Lake, where the Bellamy family and their circle of friends keep finding their way back to one another.
Avalon is the glue.
Some of the novels center on the Bellamys directly, while others widen the lens to include innkeepers, caregivers, empty nesters, firefighters, filmmakers, and people who return to town carrying fresh trouble and old grief. That shifting focus is part of the series' charm. Each book has its own emotional center, but together they build a fuller picture of a community shaped by memory, kinship, and place.
Willow Lake is not just scenic background. Old resorts, family homes, cabins, and seasonal traditions all matter to the stories. Characters often arrive in Avalon at a crossroads, after a breakup, a career setback, a family emergency, or a loss they have not figured out how to absorb. The town slows them down just enough to make honesty possible. Love may be part of the answer, but so are reconciliation, forgiveness, and a clearer sense of what matters.
The tone leans contemporary women's fiction with a strong romantic thread. Some books are more overtly about a couple finding each other, while others spend just as much time on parents and children, siblings, grief, and the meaning of home. There are holiday entries, summer entries, and stories that tie generations together.
If you like connected series where familiar faces return without overshadowing the current leads, Lakeshore Chronicles does that very well. Readers come for the romances, but many stay for Avalon itself, the sense that this lakeside world keeps going after the last page, with families arguing, healing, celebrating, and showing up for each other year after year.
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