The Donnellys of Dogwood Cove Books in Order

The Donnellys of Dogwood Cove is a family-centered branch of Julia Jarrett's Dogwood Cove world. The setup is simple and useful: four protective older brothers, one younger sister, and a west coast island community where family dinners, sibling teasing, and town gossip can all become part of the romance.

The series begins with Dare To Kiss You, which belongs to Kat Donnelly. She has a crush on Hunter, the police officer next door, and he has feelings of his own. The problem is not chemistry. The problem is the pack of older brothers who have made protecting Kat a family sport. One dare gives the romance a push, but keeping anything quiet in Dogwood Cove is a losing plan.

The Donnellys meddle because they care.

From there, the series moves through different members of the family and the people pulled into their orbit. Hate To Want You brings in a hospital workplace romance with anger, attraction, and past hurt sitting right under the surface. Pretend To Love You shifts to a former pro hockey player recovering from injury and the sunny physical therapist who knows exactly how annoying he can be. Promise To Marry You uses a marriage of convenience between best friends, which means the safest relationship in someone's life suddenly becomes the riskiest.

The books share Dogwood Cove's small-town warmth, but the family setup gives them a slightly louder engine. There are brothers with opinions. There are sisters and friends who know too much. There are romantic decisions that cannot stay private for long, especially when everyone involved has been woven into the same community for years.

Later stories widen the emotional range. Dare to Marry You returns to Kat and Hunter with a Christmas wedding, a snowstorm, and a surprise that changes their plans. One Night To Win You brings single mom Tori Charles into a firefighter fantasy that was supposed to stay casual, then lets real life make casual feel much too small.

This series is best read in order because the family is the thread. Each couple has its own romance hook, but the real fun comes from watching the Donnellys react, interfere, apologize, and show up. It is messy in the way big families can be messy, which is part of the comfort. Under the jokes and warnings, the promise is steady: nobody in this family has to face love alone for very long.