Mary Alice Monroe

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    The Long Road Home (March 1995)
  • Latest Book:
    Where the Rivers Merge (May 2025)
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Full Series List in Order

The Beach House

1 - The Beach House (May-2002)
2 - Beach House Memories (May-2012)
3 - Swimming Lessons (Apr-2007)
4 - Beach House for Rent (Jun-2017)
5 - Beach House Reunion (May-2018)
6 - On Ocean Boulevard (May-2020)
7 - The Summer of Lost and Found (May-2021)

The Islanders

2 - Search for Treasure (Jun-2022)
3 - Shipwrecked (Jun-2024)

Lowcountry Summer

1 - The Summer Girls (Jun-2013)
2 - The Summer Wind (Jun-2014)
3 - The Summer's End (May-2015)
4 - A Lowcountry Wedding (May-2016)
5 - A Lowcountry Christmas (Oct-2016)

Books in Order: 28 titles

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  • Where the Rivers Merge

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic." -- People"This is book club fiction at its finest!" -- Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the New York Time...

  • Shipwrecked

    The Islanders - 3

    Jake, Macon, and Lovie fight to survive at sea in this third “powerful coming-of-age tale” (Kirkus Reviews) in the middle grade, New York Times bestselling The Islanders series by Mary Alice Monroe!Jake Potter’s biggest dream finally comes true...

  • Search for Treasure

    The Islanders - 2

    The sequel to New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s The Islanders, an “exciting, tender, and absolutely wonderful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) story of friendship, loss, and the healing power of nature.Jake Potter is back o...

  • The Summer of Lost and Found

    The Beach House - 7

    The New York Times bestselling Beach House series returns with this tender and compassionate novel following the Rutledge family as they face a summer of upheaval and change with perseverance, unity, and a dose of humor, discovering unexpected joys a...

  • On Ocean Boulevard

    The Beach House - 6

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natur...

  • The Summer Guests

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series comes a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from natural disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances -- or perhaps becaus...

  • Beach House Reunion

    The Beach House - 5

    Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insigh...

  • Beach House for Rent

    The Beach House - 4

    New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle o...

  • A Lowcountry Christmas

    Lowcountry Summer - 5

    A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in this timeless story of family bonds. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it’s the worst Christmas ever. His father’s shrimp boat is docked, h...



  • A Lowcountry Wedding

    Lowcountry Summer - 4

    Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s next novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry. ...

  • The Summer's End

    Lowcountry Summer - 3

    In the powerful and heartwarming conclusion to her bestselling Lowcountry Summer trilogy, New York Times author Mary Alice Monroe brings her readers back to the charm and sultry beauty of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, to reveal how the pull of...

  • The Summer Wind

    Lowcountry Summer - 2

    The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe’s Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestselling The Summer Girls. This series is a poignant and heartwarming story of three half-sisters and their grandmother, who is determined to ...

  • Second Star To The Right

    "The magic of innocence and the romance of hope will charm the reader." Nora Roberts"I laughed, I cried and I felt like a kid again, experiencing the magic of an unforgettable love story. Mary Alice Monroe has won a fan for life with this spectacular...

  • A Butterfly Called Hope

    The colorful flowers in Mama's garden reveal a strange-looking creature. "What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?" Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis a...

  • The Summer Girls

    Lowcountry Summer - 1

    Three granddaughters. Three months. One summer house. In this enchanting trilogy set on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe captures the complex relationships between three half sisters scattere...

  • Beach House Memories

    The Beach House - 2

    She felt it now. She was slipping into the insistent undertow of the past. There was no use fighting it. It was so easy to simply close her eyes. And relinquish. Autumn brings its own haunting beauty to the sun-soaked beaches and dunes on Isle of ...

  • The Butterfly's Daughter

    Four very different women embark on a transformational journey that follows the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico. The story begins when Luz Avila's grandmother, the local butterfly lady, purchases an old, orange VW bug for a road...

  • Last Light over Carolina

    Every woman in the lowcountry knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, the only man she's ev...

  • Time Is a River

    Recovering from breast cancer and reeling from her husband's infidelity, Mia Landan flees her Charleston home for the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, and takes refuge in a neglected cabin recently inherited by her fly-fishing instructor, Be...



  • Swimming Lessons

    The Beach House - 3

    Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise f...

  • Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter

    This is a companion book to Mary Alice Monroe's novel, Swimming Lessons, the sequel to The Beach House. In the novel, the readers witness a young mother, Toy, writing a journal for her daughter, Little Lovie. This is the journal Toy is writing. Using...

  • Sweetgrass // The Secrets We Keep

    Mary Alice Monroe returns to the heart of the Lowcountry with a richly textured story about family, loss and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love. Sweetgrass is a historical tract of land in South Carolina that has been ho...

  • Skyward

    E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes. But Ell...

  • The Beach House

    The Beach House - 1

    Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother -- coming just as her own life is spinning out of control -- has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood...

  • The Four Seasons

    A time for change...and second chances They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy. Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown; an odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery. ...

  • The Book Club

    On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for these five women, it is something more precious -- a chance to share their hopes and fears and triumphs. Eve--her husband's sudden death has turned her world upside down, cheating her of every sec...

  • Girl in the Mirror

    Charlotte Godowski was used to the horrified stares she received from strangers. She'd learned to accept her facial deformity, until one cruel incident compels her to have the surgery that changes her life forever. Charlotte Godfrey is beautiful b...

  • The Long Road Home

    Rediscover this moving tale of second chances and self-reinvention by New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe. Her husband’s suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. B...

Award-Winning Books by Mary Alice Monroe

Skyward
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Novel


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Mary Alice Monroe has published 28 books.

Mary Alice Monroe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Where the Rivers Merge, was published in May 2025.

The first book by Mary Alice Monroe, The Long Road Home, was published in March 1995.

Yes. Mary Alice Monroe has 3 series.
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