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The Campfire Books in Order

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See The Campfire series by Beth Merlin in order, with book summaries, series background, and easy where-to-start guidance for new readers.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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The Campfire books in publication order

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4 books

1

One S'more Summer

by Beth Merlin

2017

After losing her design job and watching her best friends set a wedding date, Gigi Goldstein runs back to Camp Chinooka. There she must face old memories, messy feelings, and the infuriatingly appealing Perry.

2

S'More to Lose

by Beth Merlin

2017

Four years later, Gigi's fashion career is finally taking off, until a royal wedding commission sends her to London and back into Perry's orbit. Pressure, creative block, and unresolved feelings make every choice feel risky.

3

Love You s'More

by Beth Merlin

2018

Gigi should be celebrating the wedding gown that made her famous, but a scandalous photo with Perry throws her life into chaos. At Badgley Hall, she must choose between the safe future in front of her and the past still tugging at her.

4

Tell Me S'more

by Beth Merlin

2021

This return to the Camp Chinooka story shifts to Perry Gillman's point of view. As his musical career catches fire, success pulls against his relationship with Gigi and forces him to choose what he is willing to lose.

The Campfire books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "One S'more Summer"

    One S'more Summer

    by Beth Merlin

    2017The Campfire, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "S'More to Lose"

    S'More to Lose

    by Beth Merlin

    2017The Campfire, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Love You s'More"

    Love You s'More

    by Beth Merlin

    2018The Campfire, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Tell Me S'more"

    Tell Me S'more

    by Beth Merlin

    2021The Campfire, Book 4

Series background & context

The Campfire series starts with a familiar impulse, going back to the one place that still feels like home when everything else is falling apart. In One S'more Summer, fashion designer Gigi Goldstein heads back to Camp Chinooka after losing her job and watching her oldest crush finally slip out of reach. The camp is full of cabins, counselors, singalongs, and old inside jokes, but it is also packed with memories she has never really sorted through.

Camp Chinooka is not just a backdrop. It is the emotional engine of the series.

Gigi anchors the first three books, and her story is about much more than picking the right guy. She is funny, impulsive, talented, and often a little lost. What she wants keeps shifting as adult life gets more complicated. One minute it is love, then career stability, then a cleaner version of herself that she can actually live with. Perry Gillman, the boys' head counselor turned composer, becomes the series' biggest source of chemistry and chaos. Their push and pull gives the books their romantic charge, but friendship, guilt, ambition, and unfinished business matter just as much.

Each installment opens the world a little wider. One S'more Summer leans into camp nostalgia and second chances. S'More to Lose moves into fashion, London, and royal wedding pressure as Gigi's design career takes off and old feelings come roaring back. Love You s'More raises the stakes again with public scandal, aristocratic expectations, and the hard question of whether safety and happiness are actually the same thing. The tone stays breezy and readable, but the problems are real enough to give the series some weight.

Then Tell Me S'more changes the angle in a smart way. Rather than simply continuing forward, it revisits the larger arc from Perry's point of view. That means readers get the music side of the story, his struggle to build a career outside his father's shadow, and a clearer sense of how success can strain a relationship even when the feelings are genuine. It is set between One S'more Summer and S'More to Lose, but it works best as the fourth book.

At heart, these are romance novels about people who do not have themselves fully figured out yet.

That is what makes the series stick. The settings are vivid, from lakeside bunks and counselor chaos to London drawing rooms and creative backstage spaces, but the bigger draw is the long emotional arc. Gigi, Perry, and the people around them keep growing, backsliding, embarrassing themselves, and trying again. If you like romantic comedy energy with a little more mess, and a heroine who has to build a life instead of just landing a happy ending, The Campfire is a good place to settle in.

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