The Maple Tree Lodge Hotel Books in Order

The Maple Tree Lodge Hotel series is set in the Cotswolds, around a family-run hotel beside Dragonfly Lake. It has the same cosy shape as Alison Sherlock’s Railway Lane and Riverside Lane books: a beautiful place under pressure, a family trying to keep going, and newcomers or returnees who bring both trouble and hope.

The hotel has belonged to the Jackson family for generations. In Coming Home to Maple Tree Lodge, Ben Jackson returns after the sudden loss of his father and discovers the hotel is close to financial ruin. The building needs renovation, the family needs a plan, and Ben’s practical, modern ideas do not match the warmer country style imagined by interior designer Lily Watson.

The series is about saving a place without sanding all the character off it.

Dragonfly Lake gives the books their wider setting. The hotel is not just bedrooms and bookings. It has a boathouse, lake views, family history, and room for new businesses that might help the lodge survive. That matters in Daydreaming at the Boathouse Cafe, where Hannah Jackson is asked by her brother Ben to open a cafe in the renovated boathouse. Hannah has left an unhappy relationship and dreams of baking, but confidence does not come easily. Alex Grant, an injured champion triathlete and Ben’s best friend, arrives needing to rethink his own life.

The third book, Starry Nights at Dragonfly Lake, looks toward winter and a different kind of escape. Beth Jones, an astronomer who has lost both her job and her boyfriend, hides out at Maple Tree Lodge. Noah Jackson, an estranged carpenter who does not trust easily, arrives to claim a surprise inheritance. A storm, an unwanted ex, and a fake romance push them into each other’s orbit.

The tone is gentle, romantic, and practical. People bake, renovate, argue about design choices, look after dogs and puppies, and slowly admit what they are afraid of. The series can be read book by book as standalone romances, but the family and hotel threads make it more satisfying in order.

At its core, Maple Tree Lodge is another Alison Sherlock home-under-threat story. The pleasure is watching the hotel become sturdier while the people inside it do the same.