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Chautona Havig

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Wondering where to start?  (note: this page is randomly updated. If you see something is missing, drop me a line and I’ll be happy to update. I just forget!)

So many of my books are very thoroughly interconnected.  Anything listed under the “Rockland Chronicles” is likely to have familiar characters appear all over the place!  So, if you wondered what order to read them, here you go!  Now, this is just a suggestion.  The only books that NEED to be read in a particular order are listed as their own series.  For example, Aggie’s Inheritance as a series can be read in any order, but the books in the series need to be read sequentially.  Clear as political candidates on debate night?  Good!  Then let’s get started.  *cough*

Rockland Chronicles Timeline One- Intact series (books with asterisks are not yet in print)

Not a Word (Technically, this book both comes after and before the Aggie Series. So… I put it here.)
The Hartfield Mysteries
Blessing Bentley
Noble Pursuits
The Sight Unseen Series (None So Blind etc.)

Discovering Hope
Argosy Junction (Eventually, this will have a sequel which obviously would be next)
Speak Now (Might prefer to read before Advent but not essential.  Tiny spoiler in it but not much of one…)
Advent
Aggie’s Inheritance Series (From the second half of Ready or Not, this follows the same timeline as Past Forward. Ante Up! takes place concurrent with Volume 6)
Past Forward (Takes place on exactly the same timeline as the second half of the first book through the rest of Aggie. It is also concurrent with Front Window)
Diary of a De-cluttering Junkie (Takes place in conjunction with Past Forward 4)
Thirty Days Hath… (Is parallel in one chapter to a section in Volume 3 of Past Forward)
Tarnished Silver
31 Kisses
Operation Posthaste
(no distinct timeline placement)
A Bird Died

Justified Means (Must follow Thirty Days Hath…)
Mismatched (Must follow Justified Means)
Effective Immediately (Must follow Mismatched)
A Forgotten Truth (Must follow Effective Immediately)
Corner Booth
Merri’s Christmas Mission

HearthLand  (Takes place after the last Past Forward–sister series to Past Forward)
The Matchmakers of Holly Circle 
(concurrent with Volumes 1  and 2 of HearthLand)
Carol and the Belles (Concurrent with the end of HearthLand)
The Vintage Wren (takes place after HearthLand and runs concurrently with all books after that).
Premeditated Serendipity
Tangoed in Tinsel
The Second Noel
Silenced Knight
The Ghosts of New Cheltenham
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

 

Rockland Chronicles Timeline Two- Series Mixed In (books with asterisks are not yet in print)

Sweet on You (Meddlin’ Madeline Series Book 1)

Such a Tease (Meddlin’ Madeline Series 2)

Fine Print (Meddlin’ Madeline Series 3)

Dead Letter (Meddlin’ Madeline Series 4)

Byrd’s Eye View (Meddlin’ Madeline Series 5) (Coming Soon)

 

 

Not a Word (Technically runs from before the rest of the books simultaneous through with Here We Come.)
Manuscript for Murder
Oh, Gracious!

None So Blind (Sight Unseen Series)
Will Not See (Sight Unseen Series 2)

Ties That Blind (Sight Unseen Series 3)
Discovering Hope

Volition
Crime of Fashion (Semi-concurrent with Past Forward.)
Blessing Bentley
 (Takes place after the opening of Crime of Fashion)
Argosy Junction (Eventually, this will have a sequel which obviously would be next.)
Speak Now (Might prefer to read before Advent but not essential.  Tiny spoiler in it but not much of one…)
Advent
Two O’clock Slump* (Semi-concurrent with Past Forward.)
Past Forward Volume 1
Front Window
 (Semi-concurrent with Past Forward.)
Ready or Not
Past Forward Volume 2
For Keeps
Here We Come
Thirty Days Hath…
Past Forward Volume 3
Past Forward Volume 4

Justified Means (The Agency Files 1)
Diary of a De-cluttering Junkie
Past Forward Volume 5

Ante Up! (Concurrent with Volume 5 of Past Forward?)
Mismatched (The Agency Files 2)
Past Forward Volume 6
Tarnished Silver (Concurrent with Volume 6 of Past Forward.)
A Bird Died
Effective Immediately (The Agency Files 3)
Corner Booth
Merri’s Christmas Mission
A Forgotten Truth (The Agency Files 4)

HearthLand
The Matchmakers of Holly Circle  (Concurrent with Volumes 1  and 2 of HearthLand.)
31 Kisses  (No distinct timeline placemen.t)

Vintage Wren (Concurrent with Operation Posthaste and Premeditated Serendipity.)

Hashtag Rogue (The Agency Files 5)
Operation Posthaste (No distinct timeline placement.)
Carol and the Belles
Christmas Embers
  (No distinct timeline placement)
Christmas Stalkings
New Year’s Revolutions
Premeditated Serendipity
Tangoed in Tinsel

Random Acts of Shyness
The Second Noel
Silenced Knight
The Ghosts of New Cheltenham

The Ghastly Therapist
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

12 Dates of Christmas (No distinct timeline placement.)

 

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Episode 483: A Chat with Sarah Loudin Thomas
byChautona Havig

When I looked at the cover of These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas, I couldn’t help but think of the cover from the early editions of Anne of Green Gables. Listen in to see what Sarah has to say about that.

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We talked about so much that I have a hard time remembering everything, but I loved hearing about how Sarah writes the stories that inspired previous books and her next one, too.

Inspired by the book, The German Invasion of Western North Carolina by Jacqueline Burgin Painter

These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness. German pianist Hedda Schlagel’s world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda is stunned to see Fritz’s name in a photograph of an American memorial for German seamen who died near Asheville, North Carolina. Determined to reclaim his body and bring closure to his ailing mother, Hedda travels to the US. Her quest takes a shocking turn when, rather than Fritz’s body, his casket contains the remains of a woman who died under mysterious circumstances. Local deputy Garland Jones thought he’d left that dark chapter behind when he helped bury Fritz Meyer’s coffin. The unexpected arrival of Hedda, a long-suffering yet captivating woman, forces him to confront how much of the truth he really knows. As they work together to uncover the identity of the woman in the casket and to unravel Fritz’s fate, Hedda and Garland grow closer. But with Hedda in the US on borrowed time while Hitler rises to power in Germany, she fears she’ll be forced to return home before she can put the ghosts of her past to rest.

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