Annie Rains

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2015
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Blushing Bay Novel

1 - Forbidden Kisses (Apr-2017)
2 - Stolen Kisses (Oct-2017)
3 - One Last Kiss (Jul-2018)
4 - Kissing in the Rain (Jun-2018)

A Hero's Welcome Novel

1 - Welcome to Forever (Dec-2015)
2 - Welcome Home, Cowboy (Apr-2016)
3 - Welcoming the Bad Boy (Aug-2016)
4 - Welcome Home for Christmas (Nov-2016)

Love in Bloom

1 - The Finders Keepers Library (Apr-2024)

Somerset Lake

1 - The Summer Cottage (Jun-2021)
2 - The Christmas Village (Oct-2021)
3 - A Forever Home (Nov-2021)
4 - The True Love Bookshop (Jul-2022)
5 - The Good Luck Cafe (Mar-2023)

Sweetwater Springs

1 - Christmas on Mistletoe Lane (Sep-2018)
1.5 - A Wedding on Lavender Hill (Feb-2019)
2 - Springtime at Hope Cottage (Mar-2019)
2.5 - Meet Me at Sweetwater Springs (Aug-2019)
3 - Snowfall on Cedar Trail (Sep-2019)
4 - Starting Over at Blueberry Creek (Feb-2020)
5 - Sunshine on Silver Lake (Jul-2020)
6 - Season of Joy (Oct-2020)
7 - Reunited on Dragonfly Lane (Feb-2021)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Welcome to Forever

    A Hero's Welcome Novel - 1

    The Hero’s Welcome military romance series introduces a small coastal town where America’s best and brightest risk everything for love. In Seaside, North Carolina, there are two kinds of people: Marines, and kids of Marines. Then there’s Ka...

  • Welcome Home, Cowboy

    A Hero's Welcome Novel - 2

    With its thriving military base, Seaside, North Carolina, is teeming with heroes of all stripes. But, as the bestselling Hero’s Welcome series from Annie Rains continues, it takes a cowboy to rescue the town’s newest resident from heartache. ...

  • Welcoming the Bad Boy

    A Hero's Welcome Novel - 3

    From the bestselling author of Welcome to Forever comes a sweet, sexy novel about breaking all the rules. In Seaside, North Carolina, the boys on the base are heroes -- but that doesn’t mean they’re always well-behaved. As a preacher’s daug...

  • Welcome Home for Christmas

    A Hero's Welcome Novel - 4

    The bestselling Hero’s Welcome series continues with a juicy Christmas romance, a short novel set in Seaside, North Carolina, where the bustling military base keeps this small town stocked with dedicated, lovable heroes. Three-hundred-and-sixty...

  • Forbidden Kisses

    A Blushing Bay Novel - 1

    The USA Today bestselling author of the Hero’s Welcome series introduces a trio of swoon-worthy North Carolina brothers fighting for love in this novel of sand, sea, and seduction. For years, Jack Sawyer’s family has been running their upscale...

  • Stolen Kisses

    A Blushing Bay Novel - 2

    The irresistible Sawyer brothers of Blushing Bay, North Carolina, are back in this enchanting novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Forbidden Kisses and the Hero’s Welcome series. Krista Nelson loves being a pediatric nurse. What she do...

  • Kissing in the Rain

    A Blushing Bay Novel - 4

    A Blushing Bay Prequel Novella After a rough year, Jillian Maready is overdue for a relaxing weekend getaway. Where better to find that than Blushing Bay, North Carolina where her family vacationed growing up? When she sets sail on her own, however...

  • One Last Kiss

    A Blushing Bay Novel - 3

    Acclaimed chef, Abby Sawyer has been offered a chance to host her own cooking show. The catch is that it involves leaving Blushing Bay, North Carolina. There's nothing left for her in the small coastal town anyway. When she gets locked in her restaur...

  • Christmas on Mistletoe Lane

    Sweetwater Springs - 1

    This USA Today bestselling author invites you to the delightful small town of Sweetwater Springs where the magic of Christmas brings to strangers together in this "story you won't forget" (RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author). Christ...



  • A Wedding on Lavender Hill

    Sweetwater Springs - 1.5

    "Gifted storyteller" (RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author) Annie Rains invites you to Sweetwater Springs for a wedding with all the feels!Event planner Claire Donovan loves giving clients the weddings of their dreams. But that gets tric...

  • Springtime at Hope Cottage

    Sweetwater Springs - 2

    Fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Mason will want to cozy up with this small-town series from USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains. Come back for a visit to Sweetwater Springs as ambitious, successful magazine editor Josie Kellum falls head ov...

  • Meet Me at Sweetwater Springs

    Sweetwater Springs - 2.5

    A heartwarming novella in the Sweetwater Springs series from USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains, perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Mason. If Lacy Shaw could have one wish, it's that the past would stay in the past. And with her high...

  • Snowfall on Cedar Trail

    Sweetwater Springs - 3

    From a USA Today bestselling author comes a heartwarming holiday romance between the a small-town florist and the handsome chief of police. Christmas is always bustling for Halona Locklear's flower shop, but this year, she's determined to ...

  • Starting Over at Blueberry Creek

    Sweetwater Springs - 4

    USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains welcomes you back to Sweetwater Springs, North Carolina, with a charming friends-to-lovers story between a sexy fireman and the beautiful woman who mends his heart. Should they fan the flames or douse this ...

  • Sunshine on Silver Lake

    Sweetwater Springs - 5

    Welcome back to Sweetwater Springs, North Carolina for a heartwarming second-chance romance between a quirky café owner and a handsome park ranger. With summer just around the corner, Emma St. James is eagerly planning a 5K run at Sweetwater Spri...

  • Season of Joy

    Sweetwater Springs - 6

    Fall in love with this heartfelt holiday romance between a down-on-his-luck Christmas tree farmer and a woman with plans to bring the merriment back to their town. Tis the season for love For single father Granger Fields, Christmas is his busie...

  • Reunited on Dragonfly Lane

    Sweetwater Springs - 7

    Anything is paws-ible with this furry matchmaker! Boutique owner Sophie Daniels certainly isn't looking to adopt a dog the day veterinarian Chase Lewis convinces her to take in Comet. A rambunctious puppy with a broken leg may not be the best ...

  • The Summer Cottage

    Somerset Lake - 1

    This summer, they’ll learn that home is where the heart is. Somerset Lake is the perfect place for Trisha Langly and her son to start over. As the new manager for the Somerset Cottages, Trisha is instantly charmed by the property’s elderly res...

  • The Christmas Village

    Somerset Lake - 2

    USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains returns to Somerset Lake, North Carolina, with a heartwarming Christmas story about a midwife and her ex-fiance who face high stakes when they must team up to compete in the neighborhood house decorating conte...



  • A Forever Home

    Somerset Lake - 3

    They’ll need a Christmas miracle to pull off their fake relationship in this sweet holiday romance. Della Rose desperately needs a Christmas miracle to make it back home in time for her sons’ holiday concert. It’s just that the single mom ...

  • The Matchbreaker Summer

    A pitch-perfect summer camp rom-com about two teens with nothing in common who come together to help break up a romance and unexpectedly start one of their own...Sixteen-year-old Paisley Manning has been attending Camp Starling since she was a l...

  • The True Love Bookshop

    Somerset Lake - 4

    In this powerful romance and celebration of friendship, a widow relies on the crucial support of her friends to help guide her through her grief and open herself up for love once again.   For Tess Lane, owning Lakeside Books is a dream come tru...

  • The Good Luck Cafe

    Somerset Lake - 5

    Moira Green is perfectly content with her life. She has a rewarding career and plenty of wonderful friends, including the members of her weekly book club. Then everything in her life goes topsy-turvy when the town council plans to demolish the site o...

  • Through the Snow Globe

    Perfect for readers of One Day in December by Josie Silver, this enchanting new novel with touches of It’s a Wonderful Life and Groundhog Day follows a woman dangerously close to losing it all as she receives an unexpected Christmas gift that promp...

  • The Finders Keepers Library

    Love in Bloom - 1

    This heart-warming second chance love story about hope and healing from USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains is perfect for fans of Raeanne Thayne and Jenny Hale! For a gardener blessed with a green thumb, Savannah Collins’s life sure seems lik...

  • The Charmed Friends of Trove Isle

    In a grown-up twist on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains pens a powerful, uplifting story of female friendship and resilience in a small Southern town, as former childhood friends overcome grief and begin...

  • Summer in a Bottle

    In this tender, uplifting novel for fans of Josie Silver and Rebecca Serle, a young woman returns to her North Carolina hometown hoping to make new memories, but finds history repeating itself -- literally . . . Dumped by her fiancé, opinion columni...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Annie Rains has published 27 books.

The next book by Annie Rains, Summer in a Bottle, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Annie Rains, Welcome to Forever, was published in December 2015.

Yes. Annie Rains has 5 series.
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