The Vineyard Sunset Books in Order
Part ofKatie Winters Books in OrderBrowse The Vineyard Sunset series by Katie Winters, with the Sheridan family books in order, short plot summaries, and advice on where to begin on Martha's Vineyard.
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The Vineyard Sunset books in publication order
19 books
A Vineyard Thanksgiving
by Katie Winters
2020
Thanksgiving on Martha's Vineyard finds the Sheridan and Montgomery families juggling new marriages, lingering heartache, and a houseful of guests. Amid cooking disasters and tender moments, they try to honor old traditions while making room for the changes life has forced on them.
A Vineyard White Christmas
by Katie Winters
2020
A rare blanket of snow turns the Vineyard into a winter postcard as the Sheridans prepare for Christmas. Illness, legal drama, and romantic uncertainty swirl, but so do carols, twinkle lights, and the stubborn hope that this year, love might win out.
August Sunsets
by Katie Winters
2020
Journalist Lola Sheridan chases one last big adventure with a risky sailing trip that brings her face to face with a man tied to her family’s darkest history. As summer wanes, the Sheridan sisters confront illness, pregnancy, and the reality that they are stronger together than apart.
Firefly Nights
by Katie Winters
2020
Middle sister Christine Sheridan leaves behind a failed New York restaurant and a crumbling relationship to come home to the Vineyard. Working as a pastry chef at the Sunrise Cove Inn, she clashes with her high school rival and slowly realizes she might deserve joy after all.
The Sunrise Cove Inn
by Katie Winters
2020
After a devastating divorce and cancer diagnosis, criminal lawyer Susan Sheridan returns to her childhood home on Martha's Vineyard. At the rundown Sunrise Cove Inn, she must face her estranged father, two very different sisters, and the secret surrounding their mother’s death.
A Vineyard Blessing
by Katie Winters
2021
A season of baptisms, milestones, and quiet miracles reminds the Sheridans how far they have come. As they gather to bless new lives and honor old ones, unresolved tensions surface, but so does a deeper sense of gratitude for the messy, enduring family they have built.
A Vineyard Christmas Guest
by Katie Winters
2021
A mysterious visitor arrives at the Sunrise Cove Inn just before Christmas, carrying secrets that intersect with the Sheridans’ own. Welcoming a stranger into their celebrations, the family is pushed to practice the generosity and forgiveness they so often talk about.
A Vineyard Lullaby
by Katie Winters
2021
New babies, sleepless nights, and old fears fill the Sunrise Cove Inn as the Sheridan women move into a new season of motherhood. Balancing careers, marriages, and aging parents, they are reminded that even the quietest moments can change the shape of a family.
A Vineyard Rebirth
by Katie Winters
2021
Spring brings both literal and emotional rebuilding to the Sunrise Cove Inn. Renovations, new business ventures, and shifting roles within the Sheridan clan force everyone to let go of who they used to be and consider what rebirth might look like on their beloved island.
A Vineyard Vow
by Katie Winters
2021
Susan Sheridan and her daughter Amanda plan weddings that should be pure joy, only to discover that life and partners do not always behave. As one engagement unravels and another deepens, mother and daughter learn that vows mean more when tested by disappointment.
A Vineyard Wedding
by Katie Winters
2021
Wedding bells ring on Martha's Vineyard, but nothing goes quite as planned. As families merge and a high profile trial looms in the background, Susan, Christine, Lola, and their loved ones must decide what compromises they are willing to make for love and justice.
A Vineyard Blizzard
by Katie Winters
2022
A massive blizzard strands islanders and visitors alike, forcing unlikely houseguests together at the inn and in town. Youngest sister Lola faces a life changing question, while a widowed actress finds solace in community theater, proving that even the coldest storms can uncover warmth.
Once in a Lifetime
by Katie Winters
2022
A crossover story of the Sheridan and Montgomery sisters, this novel follows women from both families as a once in a lifetime opportunity forces them to weigh ambition against home. Old friendships, new loves, and hard earned wisdom meet on familiar island shores.
The Vineyard Bride
by Katie Winters
2022
As spring blooms on the Vineyard, long delayed weddings and fresh commitments take shape. Lola’s postponed ceremony, Amanda’s new romance, and the quiet love of older couples intertwine, showing that there is no single age or script for becoming someone’s bride.
A Vineyard Love
by Katie Winters
2023
As the Vineyard Sunset saga continues, a slow burning romance that has simmered in the background finally comes into focus. Past divorces, blended families, and the demands of work test this new love, even as the island seems determined to give them space to try.
A Vineyard Spring
by Katie Winters
2023
Spring cleaning takes on deeper meaning as the Sunrise Cove Inn crew clears out closets and emotional baggage alike. Fresh projects, surprising pregnancies, and long postponed conversations remind the Sheridans that every season offers a chance to try again.
A Vineyard Tide
by Katie Winters
2023
Changing tides on Martha's Vineyard bring financial pressures and surprising opportunities to the Sunrise Cove Inn. While the Sheridans debate expansions and retirements, a younger generation steps up, eager to shape what the family business will become.
A Vineyard Celebration
by Katie Winters
2024
A gathering meant to celebrate milestones across the Sheridan and Montgomery clans turns into a reckoning with everything they have survived. Speeches, surprises, and a few stubborn quarrels remind them that celebration and struggle often sit side by side.
Vineyard Winds
by Katie Winters
2024
Strong Vineyard winds sweep through both the island and the Sheridan and Montgomery families, carrying in new challenges and long awaited answers. Characters introduced in the very first book reckon with who they are now, nearly two decades later.
The Vineyard Sunset books in chronological order

The Sunrise Cove Inn
by Katie Winters
2020The Vineyard Sunset, Book 1
Firefly Nights
by Katie Winters
2020The Vineyard Sunset, Book 2
August Sunsets
by Katie Winters
2020The Vineyard Sunset, Book 3
A Vineyard Thanksgiving
by Katie Winters
2020The Vineyard Sunset, Book 4
A Vineyard White Christmas
by Katie Winters
2020The Vineyard Sunset, Book 5
A Vineyard Vow
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 6
A Vineyard Lullaby
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 7
A Vineyard Wedding
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 8
A Vineyard Rebirth
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 9
A Vineyard Blessing
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 10
A Vineyard Christmas Guest
by Katie Winters
2021The Vineyard Sunset, Book 11
A Vineyard Blizzard
by Katie Winters
2022The Vineyard Sunset, Book 12
The Vineyard Bride
by Katie Winters
2022The Vineyard Sunset, Book 13
Once in a Lifetime
by Katie Winters
2022The Vineyard Sunset, Book 14
A Vineyard Spring
by Katie Winters
2023The Vineyard Sunset, Book 15
A Vineyard Love
by Katie Winters
2023The Vineyard Sunset, Book 16
A Vineyard Tide
by Katie Winters
2023The Vineyard Sunset, Book 17
Vineyard Winds
by Katie Winters
2024The Vineyard Sunset, Book 18
A Vineyard Celebration
by Katie Winters
2024The Vineyard Sunset, Book 19
Series background & context
The Vineyard Sunset series is where many readers first meet Katie Winters's fictional world, and it remains its beating heart. Set largely on Martha's Vineyard, it follows the Sheridan sisters and their sprawling extended family as they drift apart, reunite, and keep remaking their lives around an aging seaside inn.
It starts with The Sunrise Cove Inn, where Susan Sheridan, a successful criminal lawyer now facing divorce and a frightening medical diagnosis, returns to the island she left more than twenty years earlier. Her father still owns the Sunrise Cove Inn in Oak Bluffs, but both he and the property are crumbling. Susan's decision to come home forces her to face her younger sisters Christine and Lola, the unresolved grief around their mother's death, and the secrets that drove her away in the first place.
In Firefly Nights, middle sister Christine steps forward. Once a celebrated New York chef, she loses her restaurant and returns to the Vineyard, unsure whether she has anything left to offer. While she butts heads with Zach Walters, a former high school rival who now runs the bistro at the inn, she also slowly rediscovers joy in baking, sisterhood, and the steady rhythms of the island summer.
August Sunsets gives the youngest Sheridan sister, Lola, center stage. A restless journalist with a flair for drama, she embarks on a risky sailing trip and finds herself drawn back into the orbit of Tommy Gasbarro, a man tied to some of the family's darkest memories. As their father Wes slips further into dementia and Susan continues cancer treatments, the sisters have to decide how to hold one another up without losing themselves.
From there, the series stretches through holidays and years. A Vineyard Thanksgiving, A Vineyard White Christmas, A Vineyard Vow, A Vineyard Lullaby, A Vineyard Wedding, and A Vineyard Rebirth carry the Sheridans and their Montgomery cousins through engagements, trials, births, and funerals. Later books like A Vineyard Blessing, A Vineyard Christmas Guest, A Vineyard Blizzard, The Vineyard Bride, Once in a Lifetime, A Vineyard Spring, A Vineyard Love, A Vineyard Tide, Vineyard Winds, and A Vineyard Celebration continue to spin out new challenges for the growing clan.
What holds it all together is the sense of continuity. Readers watch children grow up, careers rise and fall, and relationships fracture then mend. The Vineyard itself, with its ferries, clapboard houses, and shifting off season quiet, feels like a character. Winters uses straightforward prose and short chapters, making the books easy to sink into for a weekend or a run of late nights.
For anyone curious about where to begin with Katie Winters, The Vineyard Sunset series is a natural starting point. The early books introduce recurring side characters who pop up in later series, and the emotional arcs reward reading in order, from the first return to Sunrise Cove Inn through the final winds that carry these characters into whatever comes next.
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