The Harbor's End Romances in order

The Harbor’s End Romances by Rose Kittredge are sweet, closed-door love stories for grown-ups, set in Bellwether Cove, a small harbor town on the coast of Maine. Each book follows a new couple and ends with a happily ever after, so you can read any one of them on its own. Read in order, you’ll watch the same town and its people come together around the old Harbor’s End lighthouse.

1. Love at Harbor’s End

Love at Harbor’s End is where it begins. Retired paramedic Evie Mercer, fifty-eight, inherits a lighthouse from her late aunt, along with an agreement with the town: keep Harbor’s End open to the community by summer’s end, or lose it. The first thing she finds is a new padlock on the tower door, fitted by Dan Rowan, the most careful man in Bellwether Cove.

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Bonus: Harbor’s End, One Year Later

A short free epilogue: Evie and Dan, one Labor Day later. Read it any time after book 1 (it gives away how book 1 ends). Get the free epilogue.

2. Christmas at Harbor’s End

Christmas at Harbor’s End belongs to June Bell, who has fed Bellwether Cove from her café on Harbor Street for twenty-four years, and Owen Marsh, the Christmas tree man who has bought his coffee there at six-thirty every December for twenty years. This is his last season. A holiday romance about community, and about letting yourself be looked after.

Out October 15.

3. Coming Home to Harbor’s End

Coming Home to Harbor’s End is a first-love, second-chance story. Forty-two years ago Jo Rowan told Gil Hadley to go to sea and not to write. Now he’s back in Bellwether Cove, with a shoebox of letters he never mailed.

Out November 1.

What to expect from every book

• Clean and closed-door: the bedroom door stays shut.
• Grown-up couples: heroines and heroes in their fifties and sixties, with careers, history and opinions behind them.
• A complete story with a happy ending in every book; no cliffhangers.
• Small-town comfort: a café, a lighthouse, town meetings, neighbors who show up.

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Rose Kittredge is a pen name. The Harbor’s End books are written with AI tools and published by Kettle Lane.