Sunshine Creek Vineyard Books in Order
Part ofCandis Terry Books in OrderSee the Sunshine Creek Vineyard books in order by Candis Terry, with short summaries, series background, and a quick guide to the best place to start.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Sunshine Creek Vineyard books in publication order
3 books
A Better Man
by Candis Terry
2016
After his parents' deaths, hockey star Jordan Kincade comes home to help his struggling family and younger sister. That means facing Lucy Diamond, the woman he disappointed years ago, and proving he might finally be a better man.
Perfect for You
by Candis Terry
2017
Declan Kincade has spent years keeping work and desire neatly separated, until a road trip with his assistant Brooke blows up the plan. Between family business, old grief, and close quarters, their working relationship gets a lot more complicated.
Tangled Up in Tinsel
by Candis Terry
2017
Parker Kincade is racing to open a restaurant at the family vineyard before a Christmas wedding. Gabriella Montani needs the chef job, not the distraction of Parker himself, but working side by side makes resisting each other very hard.
Sunshine Creek Vineyard books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Sunshine Creek Vineyard books center on the Kincade family, a big, loud, loving crew trying to hold themselves together after the sudden loss of their parents. At the heart of the series is the family vineyard, the place that ties the siblings to each other whether they like it or not. Each book follows a different romance, but the larger story is about grief, loyalty, and what happens when a family starts learning that the past was more complicated than it looked.
In A Better Man, hockey star Jordan Kincade comes home and has to face both family responsibility and the woman he hurt years earlier, Lucy Diamond. Perfect for You shifts to Declan Kincade, the driven brother who has spent so much time building a career that he has nearly forgotten how to live, until a road trip with his assistant Brooke changes the mood completely. Then Tangled Up in Tinsel brings Parker Kincade to the front, with a holiday setting, a restaurant opening, and a chef heroine, Gabriella Montani, who is trying just as hard to prove herself as Parker is.
The vineyard is more than scenery.
It is the family business, the family history, and the family problem. The rolling grounds, winery work, bakery, and later the restaurant project all give the books their shape. People are not just falling in love in a pretty place. They are trying to save something that matters to them. That gives the series a steady undercurrent of pressure. The romance is front and center, but so are money worries, old mistakes, sibling friction, and some painful truths about the Kincade parents that ripple through all three books.
The tone is warm and emotional, but it is not too heavy. Terry gives the Kincades plenty of banter, teasing, and family chaos. There is grief here, but there is also a lot of life. Brothers needle each other. An aunt pushes when she should probably stay quiet. Wedding plans go sideways. Careers collide with attraction. In the middle of all that, the series keeps asking a simple question: what does it take to trust love when your family history has made you wary of it?
That is why the setting works so well. Sunshine Creek Vineyard feels like a real place people depend on. The work matters. The food matters. The family dinners matter. Even when the books move into familiar romance territory, second chances, boss and employee tension, close-quarters travel, holiday sparks, they stay grounded because the characters are always tied back to home and to each other.
If you like family-centered contemporary romance with a strong sense of place, this series is an easy one to settle into. The books can be read on their own, but reading them in order gives you the best view of the Kincades as a whole, especially as old secrets surface and the family slowly rebuilds itself around the vineyard they are all trying not to lose.
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