Nantucket Love Story Books in Order
Part ofDenise Hunter Books in OrderFind the Nantucket Love Story books in order by Denise Hunter, with short summaries, series background, and a clear place to begin.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
4 books
Surrender Bay
by Denise Hunter
2007
Single mother Sam Owen returns to Nantucket to sell the cottage she inherited and runs straight into Landon Reed, the man she left behind. To move forward, she will have to face the secret that drove her away.
The Convenient Groom
by Denise Hunter
2008
When Dr. Kate's groom vanishes on the morning of her high-profile wedding, devoted Lucas Wright offers to marry her and save her public image. What begins as damage control soon tests everything Kate thinks she knows about love.
Seaside Letters
by Denise Hunter
2009
Sabrina is secretly the woman Tucker McCabe has fallen for online, and now he wants her help finding that mystery correspondent. The closer they get in real life, the harder it becomes for Sabrina to hide the truth.
Driftwood Lane
by Denise Hunter
2010
Meridith Ward learns her estranged father is dead and that she is now guardian to three half-siblings she has never met. In a rundown Nantucket bed-and-breakfast, a handyman named Jake makes leaving much harder than planned.
Series background & context
If you want the Denise Hunter version of a seaside romance, Nantucket Love Story is a great place to look. The books are set on Nantucket, and the island does a lot of the work here. There are cottages to repair, beaches to walk, coffee shops and inns, family property issues, and that mix of beauty and isolation that makes old feelings hard to avoid.
Each novel follows a different couple, but they share a world. In Surrender Bay, a woman comes back to the island after years away and runs straight into the man she left behind. The Convenient Groom adds a public wedding disaster and a marriage-of-convenience setup. Seaside Letters brings in hidden identities and online correspondence. Driftwood Lane turns toward found family, guardianship, and a crumbling bed-and-breakfast.
What ties the series together is the way the past keeps surfacing. Hunter uses Nantucket as more than a pretty backdrop. On this island, people remember each other. They remember what went wrong, who left, who stayed, and which secrets never got explained. That gives the romances a little extra ache, because the couples are not meeting in a vacuum.
The books feel breezy on the surface, but they are not fluffy.
There is plenty of warmth here, along with the faith thread Hunter's readers expect, but the stories also make room for shame, regret, family fracture, and the fear of trusting again. The island setting softens the edges without taking the stakes away.
You can read these books as standalones, but order helps. Familiar names and side characters pop up, and reading from Surrender Bay through Driftwood Lane makes Nantucket feel like a place you have really spent time in. If you like clean romance with coastal atmosphere and a strong second-chance streak, this series is one of Hunter's most inviting.
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