Lily Everett Books in Order
Browse Lily Everett books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for Sanctuary Island, billionaire romances, and more.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Can't Stand the Heat
by Lily Everett
2009
Food critic Miranda Wake gets the chance to spend a month inside chef Adam Temple's kitchen and write the expose of her dreams. Then Adam learns she cannot cook, and their lessons start heating up in more ways than one.
Just One Taste
by Lily Everett
2010
Chef Wes Murphy expects food chemistry class to be a chore until substitute teacher Rosemary Wilkins walks in. Their flirtation turns into hands-on experiments with aphrodisiacs, and suddenly the science feels very personal.
On the Steamy Side
by Lily Everett
2010
Celebrity chef Devon Sparks knows how to play the hot-tempered TV star, but off camera the act starts to crack. When he tangles with a woman who sees past the showmanship, work, image, and chemistry collide fast.
Some Like It Hot
by Lily Everett
2011
Pastry chef Danny Lunden heads to Chicago focused on the Rising Star Chef competition, not romance. Then he meets Eva Jansen, the billionaire heiress running the event, and their attraction threatens to break every rule in sight.
Too Hot To Touch
by Lily Everett
2011
World-traveling chef Max Lunden comes home to help his family in a high-stakes cooking competition. Working side by side with Juliet Cavanaugh, who once had a crush on him and now has her own fire, changes the recipe completely.
Hot Under Pressure
by Lily Everett
2012
Henry Beck and Skye Gladwell have spent years apart, but a cooking competition throws them back together at the worst possible time. Old anger, old desire, and unfinished grief make every round feel dangerously personal.
Island Road
by Lily Everett
2013
Miles Harrington comes to Sanctuary Island planning to straighten out his brothers, not fall in love. Then he meets Greta Hackley, a local woman whose whole life is rooted in the place he thought was only a temporary stop.
Sanctuary Island
by Lily Everett
2013
Ella Preston follows her sister to a remote island to reunite with the mother who once abandoned them. What she finds instead is a place of wild horses, old hurts, and a chance at love with handyman Grady Wilkes.
The Firefly Cafe
by Lily Everett
2013
Bad boy billionaire Dylan Harrington rides into Sanctuary Island looking for peace and finds Penny Little instead. Her warmth, her son, and the slower rhythm of island life make him question everything he thought he wanted.
The Summer Cottage
by Lily Everett
2013
Workaholic Logan Harrington is pushed to his limit, and his assistant Jessica Bell spirits him away to Sanctuary Island. In the quiet of his grandparents' house, Jessica starts to see the loyal, vulnerable man beneath Logan's polished surface.
Bonfire Beach
by Lily Everett
2014
Zane Bishop is all charm and trouble until wedding planner Felicity Carlson is forced to work with him on a Sanctuary Island reception. Their sparks fly fast, but Felicity is not eager to trust a man who treats life like one long party.
Homecoming
by Lily Everett
2014
This volume brings together the Billionaire Brothers romances as Dylan, Logan, and Miles each find unexpected love on Sanctuary Island. It is an easy way to read the whole Harrington brothers arc in one go.
Lantern Lake
by Lily Everett
2014
Cooper Haynes arrives on Sanctuary Island certain he is safe from romance, until he spots Vivian among the wedding party. Old feelings come roaring back, and the island gives them one more chance to decide what still matters.
Shoreline Drive
by Lily Everett
2014
Veterinarian Ben Faulkner has given up on happiness, until pregnant Merry Preston lands on Sanctuary Island. After a storm throws them together, Ben offers a practical marriage, but his feelings are anything but practical.
The Fireside Inn
by Lily Everett
2014
Lord Leo Stratham comes to Sanctuary Island for a wedding and meets Serena Lightfoot, the town's young librarian. Their attraction is immediate, but Serena has no interest in another polished playboy unless Leo can show her who he really is.
Heartbreak Cove
by Lily Everett
2015
Sheriff Andie Shepard is trying to build a new life on Sanctuary Island when a shy niece she never knew arrives at her door. Horse rehabilitator Sam Brennan may be the one person who can help them both face the past.
Home for Christmas
by Lily Everett
2015
Libby Leeds has built a career on stories about the perfect life she never really lived on Sanctuary Island. When a wounded Army Ranger and his daughter return for Christmas, Libby has to face home, truth, and the possibility of love.
Three Promises
by Lily Everett
2016
This collection gathers the Billionaire Bachelors stories as Leo, Zane, and Cooper head to Sanctuary Island planning to stop a wedding. Instead, each man runs straight into the love story he never saw coming.
Close to Home
by Lily Everett
2017
Tessa Alexander came to Sanctuary Island to leave behind a marriage that never felt whole. When her husband Johnny comes after her, determined to win her back, both of them have to decide whether love deserves a second chance.
Home at Last
by Lily Everett
2017
Marcus Beckett returns home hoping for a quieter life, but Sanctuary Island has not forgiven the way he hurt Quinn Harper. A fake courtship may solve both their problems, unless pretending turns into the real thing.
Where should I start?
If you want the full small-town island experience: Sanctuary Island → Shoreline Drive → Heartbreak Cove
If you want a cozy holiday entry point: Home for Christmas
If you want billionaire romance novellas: The Firefly Cafe → The Summer Cottage → Island Road
If you want chef romance with more heat: Can't Stand the Heat → On the Steamy Side → Just One Taste
Author bio
Lily Everett is one of the pen names used by Mary Louisa Edwards, a romance novelist whose books tend to pair warm feelings with lively, specific worlds. She was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in Virginia, where she fell in love with romance novels young and never quite got over it. By eleven, she was already sneaking Harlequin paperbacks from her grandmother's suitcase, which tells you a lot about the direction things were headed.
Books got there first.
She went on to graduate from Bryn Mawr College, then moved to Manhattan to work in publishing. That early stretch matters, because it gave her a close look at how commercial fiction works from the inside, not just as a reader but as an editor. Before long she had built a career around stories, structure, and the kind of page-turning momentum that keeps readers up too late.
Her next turn was a practical one, and a useful one for a future novelist. After moving to Ohio, she worked as a restaurant reviewer for a local paper, which fed directly into the books she published as Louisa Edwards. The Recipe for Love novels, including Can't Stand the Heat, On the Steamy Side, and Just One Taste, lean hard into professional kitchens, big personalities, and the chaos of people trying to keep their cool while dinner service, ambition, and attraction all pile up at once.
Food is never just background in those books.
As Lily Everett, she shifted into a softer small-town mode with the Sanctuary Island novels. That series starts with Sanctuary Island and continues through books like Shoreline Drive, Heartbreak Cove, Home for Christmas, Close to Home, and Home at Last. The setting, a remote Atlantic island with wild horses, carries a lot of the emotional weight. These are stories about people coming back, starting over, mending family damage, and figuring out whether love can feel safe again.
What connects the Louisa Edwards books and the Lily Everett books is the same basic strength, she likes capable adults, messy feelings, and places that feel lived in. In one set of novels, that place is a hot, crowded restaurant kitchen. In the other, it is a windswept island where everybody knows everybody and the past has a way of washing back up. Either way, her characters usually have work to do before they can get to the happy ending.
She also seems drawn to people who are a little guarded. A gruff veterinarian, a wounded soldier, a food critic with sharp elbows, a chef who hides behind swagger, these are not fantasy cutouts. They are romance leads with jobs, habits, blind spots, and bruises. That grounded feel is a big part of why her books are easy to sink into.
These days, she lives in Austin, Texas and writes full-time. Across both names, her fiction shows the same mix of comfort and tension, good banter, strong settings, and a real interest in how people build a life with each other after disappointment. That makes Lily Everett a good pick for readers who want romance with warmth, competence, and a setting vivid enough to matter.
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