Nantucket Beach Plum Cove Books in Order
Part ofPamela M Kelley Books in OrderGet the Nantucket Beach Plum Cove books by Pamela M Kelley in order, with story summaries, series background on Lisa Hodges's inn, and help choosing your perfect starting point.
Last updated: December 26, 2025
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Publication Order
9 books
Nantucket Summer House
by Pamela M Kelley
2024
TV producer Lauren lands her dream job running a Nantucket reality show about social media influencers, only to learn her cheating ex will be on camera. Working alongside easygoing local producer Hudson, she has to juggle messy feelings, drama, and island scandals.
Nantucket Homes
by Pamela M Kelley
2023
Autumn on Nantucket brings retired newcomer Kay Johnson to the island and rekindles old sparks between her neighbor's son Travis and his former girlfriend, Victoria. Meanwhile Lisa's food business and Chase's construction firm battle sharp new competitors.
Nantucket Threads
by Pamela M Kelley
2021
Designer Izzy is newly free of her volatile boyfriend when she discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant with his child. As she leans on her sister Mia and an old friend who has always been there, Izzy must decide what a safe, loving future really looks like.
Nantucket News
by Pamela M Kelley
2021
Young reporter Taylor Abbott relocates to Nantucket to chase local stories and a fresh start at the island paper. Her new beat brings a complicated crush on her editor, worries about theft at Rhett's restaurant, and rumors of elusive celebrity visitors.
Nantucket Weddings
by Pamela M Kelley
2020
Wedding planner Mia Maxwell once adored her job, until her own fiancé died just before their big day. Now staying at Lisa's inn after a house fire, she juggles planning multiple Hodges family weddings while questioning whether she can risk her heart again.
A Nantucket Affair
by Pamela M Kelley
2020
Lisa's best friend Sue always believed in her perfect marriage, until rumors about her husband and a younger coworker swirl around the island's biggest charity gala. At the same time, the Hodges children confront grief, secrets, and new chances at love.
The Nantucket Inn
by Pamela M Kelley
2019
After discovering her late husband's hidden gambling debts, fifty-something Lisa Hodges turns her Nantucket waterfront home into a bed-and-breakfast. While welcoming guests, she and her four grown children each face fresh starts in love, work, and family.
Nantucket White Christmas
by Pamela M Kelley
2019
Angela Stark has always dreaded Christmas, and losing her job and home in December only confirms it. A surprising inheritance leads her and her outspoken cat, Sam, to Nantucket, where the Beach Plum Cove crowd might finally show her what home feels like.
Nantucket Neighbors
by Pamela M Kelley
2019
Lisa's inn is thriving, but new neighbors bring tangled secrets to Beach Plum Cove. As Kristen rethinks a rekindled relationship, Chase hides a risky romance, and Paige clashes with the woman next door, a missing guest draws police attention to the inn.
Series background & context
The Nantucket Beach Plum Cove series begins with a woman in midlife whose carefully planned world falls apart. In The Nantucket Inn, Lisa Hodges, a widow in her fifties, discovers that her late husband hid a serious gambling problem that wiped out their savings. Rather than sell her beloved waterfront home and leave the island, she decides to turn the house into a small inn so she can stay close to her four adult children.
From that starting point, the series follows Lisa, her family, and an expanding cast of friends, neighbors, and guests who weave in and out of the Beach Plum Cove Inn. Each book centers on a handful of characters facing their own turning points, whether it is a career shakeup, a shaky marriage, or the decision to finally let go of an old relationship. The island itself, with its harbors, beaches, and changing seasons, is an essential part of the appeal.
Readers meet Lisa's children one by one: Kate, a magazine writer in Boston with a too perfect fiancé; Kristen, an artist dating a separated man; Chase, a laid back contractor; and Abby, the youngest, whose seemingly solid marriage and hopes for a baby are more complicated than they look. As the series continues, new voices join, including inn guests, hometown friends, and locals with their own ties to the Hodges family.
Books like Nantucket Neighbors, Nantucket White Christmas, A Nantucket Affair, Nantucket Weddings, Nantucket Threads, Nantucket News, Nantucket Homes, and Nantucket Summer House each offer a complete story while adding new layers to the shared world. There are mysteries to untangle, new romances to root for, and family milestones to celebrate, from weddings and babies to career changes and bold late in life decisions.
The tone is warm and conversational, leaning more toward women's fiction than pure romance, with plenty of scenes around kitchen tables, in cozy living rooms, and on porches overlooking the water. Readers who like the feeling of dropping back in on familiar friends with each new book often find this series especially satisfying, and while the novels can be read out of order, following publication order lets the emotional arcs unfold naturally.
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