Red Mountain Chronicles Books in Order

Set on the sunbaked slopes of eastern Washington State, the Red Mountain Chronicles follow a scrappy wine‑country community where artists, dreamers, and wanderers try to turn one small patch of earth into home. At the center is British‑born winemaker Otis Till, whose vineyard anchors a loose family of misfits, neighbors, and friends.

The story technically begins off the mountain in A Marriage Well Done. There we meet Margot Simpson, a former Broadway singer who has reshaped herself into the flawless wife of a rising politician in Burlington, Vermont. As her husband’s ambition crowds out their family, Margot’s attempts to “fix” the marriage grow funnier, stranger, and more heartbreaking, setting up the woman who will later reappear on Red Mountain still searching for a life that feels like her own.

Red Mountain is the first book actually set among the vines. Multiple narrators share the stage: Otis, howling at the moon and quietly terrified of losing his senses; Margot Pierce, a single mom rebuilding after a very public divorce; Emilia Forester, the daughter of celebrities desperate to step out of their shadow; and Brooks Baker, an orphan who has used work and charm to outrun a brutal past. Secrets are everywhere, and living in such a small place only makes the fallout harder to contain.

In Red Mountain Rising, the community has survived its first round of upheaval but is far from settled. Otis, nicknamed the “grapefather,” is trying to protect his vision for the region from aggressive development. Margot finally opens her French‑inspired inn just as her son leaves for college and her relationship falls apart, and Brooks wonders if he’ll ever find the lasting love he craves. A newcomer, Adriana Hernandez, arrives on the run with her young son, testing how welcoming the mountain really is.

Red Mountain Burning brings many of these long arcs to a head. The wines are better than ever, but the people making them are fraying at the edges. Brooks is forced to choose between stability and the woman he loves, Margot is confronting the complications of a blended family, and Otis is trying to hand the reins to a younger generation while chasing one last great vintage. The question running through the book is whether this found family can weather the literal and figurative fires threatening the mountain.

Published later, Before We Say Goodbye is a sweeping prequel that rewinds to 1969 and tells the love story of Otis and Rebecca, from a chance meeting at Woodstock through decades in the wine world. Told from Otis’s older perspective, it shows how a restless young journalist fell for both a fearless woman and a life among the vines, adding emotional depth to everything that happens on Red Mountain afterward.

Across the whole saga, expect cozy dinners, wine‑stained workdays, late‑night confessions, and plenty of humor alongside heartbreak. These are ensemble stories with rotating points of view, more about community and second chances than about any one hero. If you like small‑town drama, found families, and settings that feel like a place you could move to tomorrow, the Red Mountain books are meant to be read in order and lingered over rather than rushed.