South Carolina Sunsets series by Rachel Hanna: a white Lowcountry beach cottage with a front porch, sea oats and a bicycle at sunset over the marsh

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South Carolina Sunsets

Set in the fictional Lowcountry beach town of Seagrove, South Carolina.

A wooden boardwalk through a Lowcountry salt marsh at sunset, with a live oak draped in Spanish moss, a dock with two white chairs and egrets in the water

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Welcome to Seagrove

Seagrove is a little beach town in the South Carolina Lowcountry. This series follows Julie, a 43-year-old woman starting over after her marriage falls apart, and the multigenerational found family she builds there.

It is my flagship series. Start here if you want a long, binge-worthy series with deep beach-town atmosphere.

The Beach House - South Carolina Sunsets Book 1 (eBook)

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Book 1: The Beach House

Her husband had a secret family. At 43, Julie starts over on a small Lowcountry island.

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The main street of a small South Carolina beach town, with a bookshop under a blue striped awning, palmetto trees, bicycles, cafe tables and the ocean at the end of the street
“Makes me feel like I am finally living my dream of living on the shores.”

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Every book, in order

  1. The Beach House Book 1The Beach House
  2. Sunsets & Second Chances Book 2Sunsets & Second Chances
  3. Fireflies & Family Ties Book 3Fireflies & Family Ties
  4. The Inn at Seagrove Book 4The Inn at Seagrove
  5. The Wedding at Seagrove Book 5The Wedding at Seagrove
  6. A Seagrove Christmas Book 6A Seagrove Christmas
  7. Lighthouse Cove Book 7Lighthouse Cove
  8. Beneath The Willow Tree Book 8Beneath The Willow Tree
  9. Mutts & Magnolias Book 9Mutts & Magnolias
  10. Chasing Sunsets Book 10Chasing Sunsets
  11. Sea Glass Summer Book 11Sea Glass Summer
  12. Serenity at Seagrove Book 12Serenity at Seagrove
  13. Piece By Piece Book 13Piece By Piece
  14. The Last Good SummerPreorder Book 14The Last Good Summer

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My special edition hardcovers are only available here in my store. Each one holds three full novels.

Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #1 (Books 1-3)Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #1$39.99Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #2 (Books 4-6)Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #2$39.99Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #3 (Books 7-9)Seagrove Special Edition Hardcover #3$39.99

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About this series

South Carolina Sunsets Series

About this series

South Carolina Sunsets is Rachel Hanna's flagship clean women's fiction and beach romance series, set in the fictional Lowcountry coastal town of Seagrove, South Carolina. Across 13 books, the series follows Julie, a 43-year-old woman who starts over after her husband leaves her for another woman, and the multigenerational found family she builds in a small Southern beach town.

The series begins with The Beach House, where Julie buys an old beach house and slowly rebuilds her life around her estranged sister and mother, her two grown daughters, and the new community she didn't know she needed. As the series unfolds across more than 250,000 reader reviews and millions of copies sold, it becomes a sweeping multigenerational story about second chances, family bonds, and the kind of small-town community where everyone shows up when it matters.

All 13 books are at the Just Kisses heat level: warm, romantic, and free of explicit content. The series should be read in order, since family relationships and storylines build across books. New books in the series release regularly.

Reading Order:

1. The Beach House

2. Sunsets & Second Chances

3. Fireflies & Family Ties

4. The Inn at Seagrove

5. The Wedding at Seagrove

6. A Seagrove Christmas

7. Lighthouse Cove

8. Beneath The Willow Tree

9. Mutts & Magnolias

  • 10. Chasing Sunsets

11. Sea Glass Summer

12. Serenity at Seagrove

13. Piece By Piece

Tropes and themes

• Starting over after divorce in midlife

• Found family and small-town community

• Multigenerational family drama (sisters, mothers, daughters)

• Lowcountry coastal setting

• Slow-build romance, second-chance love

If you love these authors, you'll love this series

Mary Alice Monroe (Lowcountry, women's fiction, beach), Mary Kay Andrews (Southern beach), Patti Callahan Henry (Lowcountry, women's fiction), Karen White (Southern women's fiction), Dorothea Benton Frank (classic Lowcountry). The South Carolina Sunsets series fits naturally alongside any of these authors' beach and Lowcountry novels.

"Rachel Hanna did a phenomenal job with The Beach House! I was captivated from the very beginning. A true testament of a woman in her early 40’s being forced to start over and deciding to live her dream. The book brings out sheer determination and fortitude to forge ahead into the unknown of the next chapter of her life. This is a must read!"

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