Lisa Wingate

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Blue Sky Hills

1 - A Month of Summer (Jul-2008)
2 - The Summer Kitchen (Jul-2009)
3 - Beyond Summer (Jul-2010)
4 - Dandelion Summer (Jul-2011)

A Carolina Heirlooms Novel

1 - The Sea Glass Sisters (Jul-2013)
2 - The Prayer Box (Sep-2013)
3 - The Tidewater Sisters (Jun-2014)
4 - The Story Keeper (Aug-2014)
5 - Sandy's Seashell Shop (Dec-2014)
6 - The Sandcastle Sister (May-2015)
7 - The Sea Keeper's Daughters (Sep-2015)

Daily, Texas

1 - Talk of the Town (Feb-2008)
2 - Word Gets Around (Feb-2009)
3 - Never Say Never (Feb-2010)

Moses Lake, Texas

1 - Larkspur Cove (Feb-2011)
2 - Blue Moon Bay (Feb-2012)
3 - Firefly Island (Feb-2013)
4 - Wildwood Creek (Feb-2014)

Tending Roses

1 - Tending Roses (Feb-2003)
2 - Good Hope Road (May-2003)
3 - The Language of Sycamores (Jan-2005)
4 - Drenched in Light (Jul-2006)
5 - A Thousand Voices (Jul-2007)

Texas Hill Country

1 - Texas Cooking (Sep-2003)
2 - Lone Star Cafe (Sep-2004)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Tending Roses

    Tending Roses - 1

    "The best times of my life, the times that have passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild." The lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. That's what Kate Bowman learns when she moves temporarily--wit...

  • Good Hope Road

    Tending Roses - 2

    IN A TIME OF CRISIS, TWO WOMEN COME TOGETHER...AND SET OFF DOWN A ROAD OF HOPE.... Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, is the last person to expect anything good to come out of the tornado that rips acr...

  • Texas Cooking

    Texas Hill Country - 1

    What seemed like a road to nowhere might be leading her straight home... No one is more surprised than Colleen Collins when she's offered a job writing fluffy magazine articles about rural Texas cooking. The big-city investigative reporter know...

  • Lone Star Cafe

    Texas Hill Country - 2

    Everything seemed to be going wrong that morning.... Laura Draper is having the worst day of her life. By noon, her career as a magazine editor, her relationship with a well-known photojournalist, and her very sanity are all in doubt. She finds he...

  • The Language of Sycamores

    Tending Roses - 3

    Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of life-- immersing herself in a high-pressure job, ignoring the emotional distance it her marriage, avoiding memories of a sudden miscarriage and a bout with cancer that stole her chance of ev...

  • Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner

    Big Lizard Bottoms-where getting hitched is a local industry-is not any place Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who's sworn off romance, ever expected to find herself. She's here posing as a horse psychology student to help recover dinos...

  • Drenched in Light

    Tending Roses - 4

    A woman struggling to find her way forward discovers hope in her bond with a troubled young girl in this heartfelt novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Wer...

  • A Thousand Voices

    Tending Roses - 5

    Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished su...

  • Talk of the Town

    Daily, Texas - 1

    Between Hollywood glamour and small-town secrets, what is the truth? The show American Megastar is the hottest thing on television, but its associate producer, Mandalay Florentino, is worried. She's just arrived in the tiny town of Daily, Texas, to a...



  • A Month of Summer

    Blue Sky Hills - 1

    For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put a...

  • Word Gets Around

    Daily, Texas - 2

    Lauren Eldridge had avoided returning home to Daily, Texas, until her father confesses to being in over his head. Paying back an old favor, he's invested in a horse that's supposed to be the star of a new Hollywood movie. Only the horse won't behave....

  • The Summer Kitchen

    Blue Sky Hills - 2

    Sometimes hope springs up in unlikely places. SandraKaye Darden certainly never expects to find it in the little pink house left by her uncle Poppy. With her adopted son, Jake, missing thousands of miles away, and her family life disintegrating in th...

  • Never Say Never

    Daily, Texas - 3

    Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring exis...

  • Beyond Summer

    Blue Sky Hills - 3

    When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the life she's known is forever changed. Her father, facing prosecution for financial fraud, has fled to Mexico. Their upscale home is in foreclosure. Tam, ...

  • Larkspur Cove

    Moses Lake, Texas - 1

    MOSES LAKE WAS A CONSTANT PLACE, ON THE SURFACE. BUT YOU CAN'T ALWAYS TELL BY LOOKING, WHAT MIGHT BE BREWING UNDERNEATH.... After surviving the worst year of her life, Andrea Henderson moves home to sleepy little Moses Lake, Texas, to recover her sh...

  • Dandelion Summer

    Blue Sky Hills - 4

    All of her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed on the wind. Now, with the death of Mrs. Lora-the family friend who took Epie into her home-the sixteen-year-old must move to Dallas to live with her indifferent mother and new s...

  • Blue Moon Bay

    Moses Lake, Texas - 2

    Heather Hampton returns to Moses Lake, Texas, to help facilitate the sale of a family farm as part of a planned industrial plant that will provide the area with much-needed jobs. Heather's future fiance has brokered the deal, and Heather is in line t...

  • Firefly Island

    Moses Lake, Texas - 3

    At thirty-four, congressional staffer Mallory Hale is about to embark on an adventure completely off the map. After a whirlwind romance, she is hopelessly in love with two men--fortunately, they're related. Daniel Everson and his little boy, Nick, ar...

  • The Sea Glass Sisters

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 1

    Elizabeth Gallagher has been balancing on the ragged edge for a while now. Then a rough case on the boards of her 911 operator's job collides with a family conflict at home, and Elizabeth finds herself finally coming apart at the seams. A four-state ...



  • The Prayer Box

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 2

    When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Ru...

  • Wildwood Creek

    Moses Lake, Texas - 4

    Allie Kirkland has always heard the call of her father's unfinished destiny. When she's offered a production assistant's job on a docudrama filming in the hills near Moses Lake, Texas, the dream of following in her director-father's footsteps suddenl...

  • The Tidewater Sisters

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 3

    Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have always been bound by complicated ties. Amid the rubble of a difficult childhood lie memories of huddling beneath beds and behind sofas while parental wars raged. Sisterhood was safety . . . once. But now? Faced ...

  • The Story Keeper

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 4

    Successful New York editor, Jen Gibbs, is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing -- until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of S...

  • Sandy's Seashell Shop

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 5

    A magical place, an island Christmas eve, a broken family in need of healing....For young military widow, Tiff Riley, Christmas isn't just another day. It's the worst of all days. Hiding out on Hatteras Island with three-and-a-half-year-old Micah, sh...

  • The Sandcastle Sister

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 6

    *An Outer Banks Novella*I want to be like this stretch of freshly cleared shore. At times I think, I'm ready. Let the waves wash over me. But then I catch myself running from the tide just before it happens . . .New York editor Jen Gibbs knew when sh...

  • The Sea Keeper's Daughters

    A Carolina Heirlooms Novel - 7

    From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to...

  • Before We Were Yours

    Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--unti...

  • The Book of Lost Friends

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns ...

  • Shelterwood

    USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • “Wingate’s stellar latest explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases. . . . Her portrayal of the region’s history, culture, and landscape enthralls. Wingate is at the top of her g...



Award-Winning Books by Lisa Wingate

Before We Were Yours
2017 Goodreads Choice Award -- Historical Fiction
Dandelion Summer
2012 Carol Award -- Women's Fiction
Never Say Never
2011 Carol Award -- Contemporary
The Sea Keeper's Daughters
2016 Christy Award -- Contemporary
The Story Keeper
2015 Christy Award -- Contemporary
Wildwood Creek
2014 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Inspirational Suspense


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Lisa Wingate has published 29 books.

Lisa Wingate does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shelterwood, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses, was published in February 2003.

Yes. Lisa Wingate has 6 series.
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