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Start with Coming Home and continue through all 12 books in the listed reading order.

12 books

Published 2010 to 2018

Status: Likely complete

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Book 1 by Mariah Stewart • Published 2010

Grieving the murder of his wife, former FBI agent Grady Shields isolates himself in Montana until his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis on the Chesapeake Bay. There he meets boutique owner Vanessa Keaton and di...

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Ends with Dune Drive

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Book 1:Coming Home
Mariah Stewart • 2010
Grieving the murder of his wife, former FBI agent Grady Shields isolates himself in Montana until his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis on the Chesapeake Bay. There he meets boutique owner Vanessa Keaton and di...
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Book 2:Home Again
Mariah Stewart • 2010
Hollywood actress Dallas MacGregor retreats to St. Dennis with her young son after her director husband ignites a scandal. Reunited with her outspoken great aunt and first love Grant Wyler, now the town vet, she must...
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Book 3:Hometown Girl
Mariah Stewart • 2011
Once the prettiest girl in St. Dennis, Brooke Madison Bowers had the perfect small town life until her soldier husband was killed in Iraq. Back on the family farm and opening a cupcake bakery, she finds herself drawn...
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Book 4:Almost Home
Mariah Stewart • 2011
Ice cream maker Steffie Wyler has fulfilled one childhood wish by owning One Scoop or Two on St. Dennis's main street. When her teenage crush Wade MacGregor returns to town with his own bruised past and a secret from...
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Book 5:Home for the Summer
Mariah Stewart • 2012
Event planner Lucy Sinclair left St. Dennis after a violent assault shattered her sense of safety. Years later, she comes back to stage a celebrity wedding at her family's inn and to face the town, the best friend she...
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Book 6:The Long Way Home
Mariah Stewart • 2013
Ellie Chapman loses everything when her wealthy father is exposed for running a massive financial scam. With a ruined name and nowhere to go, she moves into the small St. Dennis house she inherited from her mother, in...
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Book 7:At the River's Edge
Mariah Stewart • 2014
Burned out by big city law and a cheating boyfriend, attorney Sophie Enright heads to St. Dennis to visit family and regroup. Buying a shuttered restaurant on the river puts her at odds with neighbor and landscaper Ja...
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Book 8:On Sunset Beach
Mariah Stewart • 2014
Gallery owner Carly Summit brings a major art exhibit to St. Dennis after plans in New York fall through, while former war zone photojournalist Ford Sinclair returns home to run the local paper for a while. Her relent...
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Book 9:That Chesapeake Summer
Mariah Stewart • 2015
Self help author Jamie Valentine discovers after her mother's sudden death that she was adopted, a truth her books never prepared her for. Following slim clues to St. Dennis, she books a room at the Inn at Sinclair's...
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Book 10:Driftwood Point
Mariah Stewart • 2016
Artist Lisbeth Parker returns to Cannonball Island, just across the water from St. Dennis, to show her work and record her great grandmother's memories. Environmental engineer Alec Jansen, once the boy she rejected fo...
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Book 11:The Chesapeake Bride
Mariah Stewart • 2017
Architect Cassidy Logan travels to Cannonball Island to design sensitively built, eco friendly homes for her father's company on land that has seen no new construction for nearly a century. As she works with island bo...
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Book 12:Dune Drive
Mariah Stewart • 2018
Chrissy Jenkins has always felt like the awkward one in her extended St. Dennis family. After a disastrous relationship, she returns to the bay determined to rebuild her life on her own terms, only to discover that lo...
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