Sunrise Key Trilogy Books in Order

The Sunrise Key books are Brockmann's warm-weather, beach-town romances, lighter on gunfire than her suspense novels but still full of strong feelings, good banter, and people who are not nearly as calm as they pretend to be. The series is set on fictional Sunrise Key, Florida, a place that feels built from sun, salt air, local gossip, and the kind of town connections that make privacy almost impossible.

Everyone seems to know everyone.

That gives the trilogy its charm. The books are linked through family, friendship, and the rhythms of island life rather than through one giant continuing plot. In Kiss and Tell, Leila Hunt comes home and finds herself caught between the safe future she thinks she should choose and the chemistry she cannot ignore with Dr. Marsh Devlin. The Kissing Game shifts to Leila's brother Simon Hunt and Frankie Paresky, a longtime friend who knows exactly why getting too close to Simon is risky. Then Otherwise Engaged brings in Molly Cassidy, her hearing-impaired son Zander, and the island billionaire Preston Seaholm for a fake-engagement story that grows into something much more real.

The setting does a lot of work here. Sunrise Key is full of resorts, old houses, town characters, and the feeling that the ocean is never far away. It is the kind of place where a New Year's Eve masquerade can change someone's life, where a rundown estate can become a new beginning, and where old crushes never quite stay buried.

These books are romantic in a relaxed, conversational way. Brockmann leans into humor, longing, and character history. The tension usually comes from emotional risk, from the fear of choosing badly, or from the worry that someone charming is not built for lasting love. Even when there is pressure from money, work, or the media, the overall tone stays breezy and inviting.

If you want Brockmann without the SEAL missions and counterterror stakes, Sunrise Key is a great place to go. The trilogy gives you friends-to-lovers, fake engagement, second chances, and a strong sense of place. It is beach reading in the best sense, easy to settle into, but still sharp enough to keep the pages moving.