Viola Shipman Books in Order

Aspiring romance author Emma Page grew up the misfit in a literary snob family that runs its own press, The Mighty Pages. Hiding out at her late grandmother’s cottage, she uncovers a secret that could destroy their publishing empire and must choose between exposing the truth and protecting her family.

High powered mergers executive Henrietta Wegner risks her job by promising to convince her parents to sell their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan Christmas store to a large corporation. Back home for more than a quick holiday visit, she rediscovers the magic of the shop, her hometown and the life she thought she had outgrown.

In Good Hart, Michigan, octogenarian “Cherry Mary” Jackson waits for the stranger destined to inherit her beloved Very Cherry General Store and her cherry pit spitting crown. When forty year old Becky Thatcher arrives for a reset, an unlikely summer friendship nudges them both toward braver futures.

After her beloved mother, a private Southern seamstress known as Miss Mabel, dies suddenly, Sutton Douglas heads to a Lake Michigan resort town to trace the past she never knew, following a trail of vintage buttons, secrets and unexpected family ties.

Bookstore owner Susan Norcross, orphaned young but raised by loving grandparents, is about to turn forty in her Michigan lakeside town. After a fleeting connection with a man in a Santa suit, she spends the year chasing a second chance at holiday love.

Debbie Hutchins makes a living as the Sugarplum Fairy, reselling vintage holiday decorations she scoops up at estate sales. A box of old nutcrackers and a hidden note send her on a quest to return the heirlooms and, along the way, to rediscover her own lost Christmas spirit.

When fifty year old TV meteorologist Sonny Dunes is replaced by an AI weathercaster, the only job she can land sends her back to her snowy Michigan hometown. Facing grief, an overbearing past and an unexpected romance, she must decide what home really means.

Once inseparable at summer camp in the 1980s, Liz, V, Rachel and Emily let adult disappointments and distance pull them apart. When a letter from Emily brings them back to Camp Birchwood decades later, they must face old wounds, lost dreams and the friendships that still matter.

Once the queen of Christmas, widow Neve Ford now pours her energy into designing dazzling holiday windows in Chicago instead of facing her grief. Sent back to her Michigan hometown for a Christmas festival, she confronts old memories, stubborn family ties and the possibility of new love.

Reclusive botanist Iris Maynard has hidden behind the fence around her Grand Haven, Michigan garden since losing her family to war and grief. When Abby Peterson moves in next door with a traumatized husband and young daughter, a shared love of flowers slowly helps both women heal.

Freshly divorced and an empty nester, Adie Lou Kruger retreats to her ramshackle family cottage on Lake Michigan and decides to turn it into a year round bed and breakfast. Renovation headaches, small town politics and second chances push her to rebuild life on her own terms.

Burned out as an underappreciated sous chef in New York, Sam Mullins quits in a fury and returns to her family’s orchard and pie shop in northern Michigan. Cooking through the recipes in her inherited box, she reconnects with her mother, grandmother and the future she really wants.

ALS has stolen much of Mattie’s independence, but not her fierce spirit. As her devoted husband Don, caregiver Rose and Rose’s young daughter Jeri gather around her, treasured objects from Mattie’s hope chest unlock memories that help them all face loss with grace and renewed hope.

Seventy year old Lolly has begun to forget, and she knows time is running out to share the stories behind the charms on her bracelet. When her busy daughter Arden and granddaughter Lauren come home, those tiny tokens draw three generations back to love, joy and faith.