Skyland Books in Order

The Skyland series is set in a vibrant Atlanta neighborhood where food, friendship and community are at the center of everything. Each book stands alone but follows a close knit group of adults as they weather grief, betrayal, parenting and new love.

Before I Let Go introduces Yasmen and Josiah Wade, former college sweethearts who built both a family and a soul food restaurant called Grits together. A series of devastating losses, including the stillbirth of a child and the death of a beloved relative, shatters their marriage and sends Yasmen into a spiral of depression. When the novel opens, they are divorced but still co-own the restaurant and co-parent their two children. The story tracks their slow, awkward, deeply felt move from exes back to something more, with therapy, honest conversations and community support playing as big a role as grand romantic gestures.

In This Could Be Us, the spotlight shifts to their friend Soledad Barnes. Soledad has spent years as a stay at home mother, running a beautiful home and caring for her three daughters while her husband climbs the corporate ladder. Her comfortable life implodes when he is arrested for embezzlement and she discovers his affair with his assistant. Financially and emotionally blindsided, Soledad leans on her friends and her own skills, turning her knack for cooking and homemaking into influencer work and food based ventures. Judah Cross, the forensic accountant who uncovered her husband’s crimes and a devoted father to autistic twin boys, becomes an unexpected ally and then a slow burn love interest, even as Soledad grapples with trust and her daughters’ anger.

Can't Get Enough focuses on Hendrix Barry, another member of the same tight friend group. Hendrix is a venture capitalist who pours her energy into backing Black women founders and has been clear that she is child free by choice. Falling for Maverick Bell, a tech mogul and single father, forces her to reconsider what family might look like on her own terms. At the same time she is navigating an aging relative’s memory loss and the exhaustion that comes with always being the strong one.

Across Skyland, the tone is grown and grounded. The books are unapologetically romantic, but they are just as invested in therapy sessions, co-parenting schedules, money stress and the day to day work of healing. The neighborhood itself, with its festivals, small businesses and overlapping friendships, becomes a kind of extended family for characters who are learning that they are allowed to want both soft love and big, demanding lives.