The Inn at Sunset Harbor Books in Order
Part ofSophie Love Books in OrderSee The Inn at Sunset Harbor books in order by Sophie Love, with short summaries, series background, and where to start with Emily Mitchell's Maine romance.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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The Inn at Sunset Harbor books in publication order
14 books
Christmas Forever
by Sophie Love
2017
Emily nears her third trimester as Christmas approaches, while new ventures at the inn raise the stakes. With Roy's time running short, the holiday season becomes one of the most meaningful and life-changing of her life.
For Now and Forever
by Sophie Love
2017
After a crushing anniversary dinner, Emily Mitchell flees New York for her father's abandoned house on the Maine coast. What should be a weekend escape becomes a chance to rebuild, uncover family secrets, and maybe fall in love.
For You, Forever
by Sophie Love
2017
As fall settles over Sunset Harbor, Emily's growing family and expanding business should feel secure, but a rival inn and family trouble keep shaking the plan. A trip to Greece leads to revelations none of them can ignore.
Forever and a Day
by Sophie Love
2017
Just a week before her wedding, Emily finally meets the father who vanished twenty years earlier. Their reunion unlocks old memories even as wedding stress, family trouble, and questions about the future close in.
Forever and For Always
by Sophie Love
2017
Emily pours her savings into restoring the house and opening her inn, but repairs, money trouble, and Daniel's secret threaten everything. With her old life pulling at her, she has to decide whether Maine is truly home.
Forever, Plus One
by Sophie Love
2017
Married and newly pregnant, Emily and Daniel juggle a packed summer, major renovations, and a trip to England at her father's request. The journey brings life-changing news that leaves their new marriage on shaky ground.
Forever, with You
by Sophie Love
2017
As Memorial Day nears, Emily tries to launch the inn while the house keeps demanding more time and money. Daniel's hidden truth and pressure from New York force her to choose between safety and the life she is building.
If Only Forever
by Sophie Love
2017
Newly engaged, Emily hopes to enjoy wedding plans and small-town life in Maine. Instead, family strain, inn pressures, and a secret tied to antiques and her missing father put her future under real stress.
A New Forever
by Sophie Love
2025
Winter brings baby Charlotte, off-season stress, and money worries as Emily and Daniel adjust to parenthood. A new opportunity might save their dream, or expose how fragile their hard-won life has become.
Forever Found
by Sophie Love
2026
Still trying to steady the inn and their family after a bruising season, Emily and Daniel face new pressures that reopen old fault lines. Sunset Harbor asks whether what feels lost can still be found again.
Forever Full Circle
by Sophie Love
2026
As the inn celebrates another anniversary, Emily and Daniel welcome guests whose lives were changed there. A chance to buy a property connected to Roy's paintings could expand their legacy and bring their story back to its beginning.
Forever Right Here
by Sophie Love
2026
An eccentric inheritance leaves Emily with a valuable but troublesome statue just as Daniel pulls away under the weight of his mother's illness. With a hurricane bearing down on Sunset Harbor, business and family both hang in the balance.
Forever, Home Again
by Sophie Love
2026
Just when Emily feels newly committed to Sunset Harbor, a routine checkup brings a frightening health scare. Home, work, and family suddenly feel more fragile, and she has to decide what matters most.
Forever, Together
by Sophie Love
2026
A devastating fire shuts the inn during peak season just as Daniel is offered a career-defining furniture commission far from home. Emily and Daniel must balance family needs and personal dreams before the strain pulls them apart.
The Inn at Sunset Harbor books in chronological order

For Now and Forever
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 1
Forever and For Always
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 2
Forever, with You
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 3
If Only Forever
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 4
Forever and a Day
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 5
Forever, Plus One
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 6
For You, Forever
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 7
Christmas Forever
by Sophie Love
2017The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 8
A New Forever
by Sophie Love
2025The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 9
Forever, Together
by Sophie Love
2026The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 10
Forever Found
by Sophie Love
2026The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 11
Forever Right Here
by Sophie Love
2026The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 12
Forever, Home Again
by Sophie Love
2026The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 13
Forever Full Circle
by Sophie Love
2026The Inn at Sunset Harbor, Book 14
Series background & context
The Inn at Sunset Harbor is Sophie Love's longest-running romance series, and it is built around one big, satisfying question: what happens when a woman finally walks away from the life that is making her unhappy and takes a chance on a place she thought she had left behind forever?
That woman is Emily Mitchell, thirty-five, living in New York City when the series opens. She is worn down by a stalled relationship, an unsatisfying routine, and the feeling that she is waiting for a life that never quite arrives. After a painful breakup, she heads to the coast of Maine and returns to her father's abandoned house, a place tied to happy childhood summers but also to family grief, missing memories, and the disappearance of her father many years earlier.
From there, the series becomes both a romance and a rebuilding story. Emily decides to restore the old property and turn it into an inn, which gives the books their steady spine. Renovation disasters, money worries, weather, guests, staffing, and town politics all matter, because Sunset Harbor is not just a backdrop. It is the engine of the story. As the house changes, Emily changes with it.
Daniel, the caretaker, is the key romantic figure from the beginning. Their relationship grows slowly against all the practical mess surrounding the house, the inn, and Emily's complicated family history. That is one of the things that sets this series apart from a lot of small-town romance. It is not built around a new couple in every installment. Instead, it follows Emily and Daniel across years of life together, through courtship, trust issues, family discoveries, marriage, parenthood, loss, and new beginnings.
The Maine setting matters a lot. These books lean into winter storms, summer crowds, old houses, ocean air, holiday seasons, and the particular pull of a small harbor town. Sunset Harbor feels like a place where people remember the past, watch each other's business, and still show up when it matters. The inn itself becomes the emotional center of that world, a home, a business, and a symbol of the life Emily is trying to claim.
There is also a strong family thread running through the series. Emily is not only trying to build a future, she is also trying to understand what happened in her past. Questions about her father, long-buried secrets, childhood trauma, and shifting family ties keep giving the romance extra weight. Later books widen the scope into marriage, children, expansion, and the challenge of holding onto love while real life keeps changing.
So while these novels are warm and easy to sink into, they are not just about courtship. They are about staying, choosing, repairing, and growing up a little more every time life throws something new at you. If you like clean romance with renovation drama, seaside atmosphere, and one central love story allowed to stretch across many books, this is the Sophie Love series most people start with for good reason.
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