Jessie Newton

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Jessie Newton is a saleswoman during the day and escapes into romance and women's fiction in the evening, usually with a cat and a cup of tea nearby. The Lighthouse is a feel-good, heartwarming women's fiction novel about best friends and the power of female relationships. Learn more at www.jessienewton.com/and join her newsletter at https://www.subscribepage.com/jessienewton

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The Lighthouse (Five Island Cove Book 1) Mar 17, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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After the death of a childhood loved one, 5 best friends reunite in the small coastal town of Five Island Cove. One doesn't expect to find love with a high school crush. Another isn't prepared to find the strength she needs to take control of her life. And none of them are ready for the secrets they'll uncover at the lighthouse...

As the truth comes to light, these five best friends will learn what really matters: friendship, family, and faith.

Now a USA Today bestseller!

When Joel Shields dies, Robin Grover's only goal is to get her four best friends back to Five Island Cove to celebrate the life of Kristen's husband. She alone has stayed in the cove while everyone else couldn't wait to get away.

Alice Keller comes instantly, because her mansion in the Hamptons and her husband's infidelity is smothering her. Not only that, but Kristen has always been like a mother to her, and she wants to support her.

Eloise Hall comes quickly too, because she's not teaching at the university this summer, and she might as well visit her mother—and the house she secretly bought years ago. Her first night on the island, she runs into an old high school crush, and a flame ignites that hasn't been there before.

But Kelli Thompson and AJ Proctor are more resistant, and as Robin, Alice, and Eloise uncover secret after secret in the books, journals, and files in Joel's office, Robin becomes more determined to reunite them all.

When Kelli and AJ finally arrive in the cove, the women are embroiled in secrets the lighthouse has hidden for decades. Robin tries to hold them all together, but she too breaks down and admits that her perfect-on-the-outside life isn't so perfect.

As these 5 best friends work together to find the truth, they must learn to let go of what doesn't matter and cling to what does: faith, family, and most of all, friendship.

★★★★★ "On the pedestal with Wendy Wax and Inglath Cooper." ~ Amazon reviewer
★★★★ "A thought-provoking novel of relatable friendships. Jessie Newton giftedly reveals each woman’s past and current life, bringing them to life in a way that allows them closure and a new beginning." ~InD'Tale Magazine

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Christmas at the Cove: Heartwarming Women's Fiction (Five Island Cove Book 4) Dec 1, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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Secrets are never discovered during the holidays, right? That's what these five best friends are banking on as they gather once again to Five Island Cove for what they hope will be a Christmas to remember.

AJ has a real boyfriend now, and he's really coming to the cove to meet her friends and family. She's turned into a domestic goddess as she preps to host Christmas at a rental that will hold everyone for the holidays. But beneath the bulky sweaters, AJ has a secret she won't be able to keep hidden forever.

Eloise is happily wearing her diamond ring, and she can't wait to spoil Aaron's children rotten over the holidays. But when he calls and says there's been an accident, Eloise will never look at Christmas the same.

Robin's just found out her husband needs a new fishing boat or he could sink while at sea. But they don't have the money to replace such a big-ticket item, and she's praying for a miracle this Christmas.

Kelli comes to the cove on a one-way ticket and more than she and her son need for a couple of weeks, but she's too humiliated to tell her friends that she is not cut out for a polyamorous relationship and that her husband has chosen that lifestyle over her.

Alice, struggling to make ends meet for the first time in her life, wants to be the one to bring them all together, bind up their broken hearts, and make Christmas wishes come true. When a mysterious benefactor allows her to do just that, she wonders what the ultimate price will be.

Because she knows better than anyone that everything has a price, and nothing comes for free...

Gather for the holidays with these five best friends as they celebrate Christmas at the cove, continue to find themselves and their future, and support each other through thick and thin.

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The Summer Sand Pact: Women's Fiction with Heart (Five Island Cove Book 2) Jun 1, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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These five best friends made a Summer Sand Pact as teens and have only kept it once or twice—until they reunite decades later and renew their agreement to meet in Five Island Cove every summer.

Alice Kelton's marriage is in shambles, and while she's always thought she'd stay with her husband, after her last visit to the cove, she went back to the Hamptons and filed for divorce. She and her twins are moving to Rocky Ridge in Five Island Cove permanently, but she's not telling anyone.

Robin's husband is in Alaska for the summer, and she's pretending she's okay.

Eloise comes back to the cove every couple of weeks so she can see her new boyfriend, though she's growing tired of the distance between them.

AJ broke up with her non-committal boyfriend, and she's happier, freer, and open to another relationship, even though she lives in Atlanta.

Kelli brings her son to the cove this time, knowing her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and desperate to fix it. She plans to get some help from her sisterhood during the two weeks in the cove.

When she's followed to the beach house where the other women and their children have gathered, Kelli learns a dangerous secret thirty years in the making that could completely undo all the progress she's made...

Get ready for more secrets to come to light in Five Island Cove, and for these five women to show each other what it means to love and support someone through thick and thin.

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The Cliffside Inn (Five Island Cove Book 3) Aug 11, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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Spend another month in Five Island Cove and experience an amazing adventure between five best friends, the challenges they face, the secrets threatening to come between them, and their undying support of each other.

Eloise Hall has reached a turning point: she either wants to marry Aaron or break up. Her scientific mind gets clouded by her heart, and she decides to quit her job at Boston University and move back to Five Island Cove to fix up and open The Cliffside Inn, a building she purchased decades ago on the rocky cliffs of Sanctuary Island.

She thinks that'll show Aaron she's ready to wear a diamond and say I-do.

Robin and Alice are dealing with their teenage children who've started dating when Alice learns that her ex-husband has lost his high-paying job and is having financial problems. All of the payments she's been getting...won't be coming anymore.

With her husband back from Alaska, Robin struggles to learn how to balance home and family with her full-time job as well as her friends. When she has to make a difficult choice between her husband and helping Eloise with the inn, Robin doesn't know which to support.

AJ has met a great guy -- or so she says. She's been texting her friends about a man named Peterson, but when they're supposed to come to the cove to help Eloise with the inn, only AJ shows up.

Kelli brings her son to the cove for another extended vacation after learning her husband has started another relationship in New Jersey. He's asked her to consider an open relationship where they stay married, and he can still see and date this other woman.

With their different personalities and in their different states of mind, none of these best friends are prepared for the secret contained within the walls of The Cliffside Inn. They've survived tough situations before, but this might be the thing that tears them apart for good...

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The House on Seabreeze Shore: Uplifting Women's Fiction (Five Island Cove Book 5) Mar 9, 2021

by Jessie Newton

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Your next trip to Five Island Cove...this time to face a fresh future and leave all the secrets and fears in the past.

Kelli is ready to make memories with her son in the house where she grew up. It needs a lot of work, but with the sunlight coming through the colorful stained glass windows, she's confident she can do it. When she gets way over her head, she calls the people who she can rely on for anything.

Eloise is only a week away from tying the knot, but she shows up at the house on Seabreeze Shore with sandpaper and her fiancé's power tools. They get to work, only to find Kelli's father's will underneath a floorboard. What's really in the will changes everything for Kelli and her mother.

Laurel, Alice, Robin, and AJ arrive just in time to help Kelli and Eloise decide what to do next. At least until the storm warning comes, and they all have to hunker down in a house that has very little food and not enough beds for everyone. As they worry about their loved ones, their bonds of friendship will be tested one more time, when one more devastating secret comes to light...

...all within the walls of the house on Seabreeze Shore.

Join best friends, old and new, Robin, Alice, Eloise, Kelli, Laurel, and AJ as they learn about themselves, strengthen their bonds of friendship, and learn what it truly means to thrive.

The Cottage on Nantucket: A Women's Fiction Mystery Serial (Nantucket Point Beach Book 1) Dec 17, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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After their mother dies, two sisters return to the cottage where they spent their summers growing up. Nantucket Point is exactly the same: charming, warm, and filled with memories both good and bad.

Janey and Tessa are cut from two completely different cloths, but they've managed to stay close over the years. Divorced twice and currently single, Janey Forsythe is on the brink of a huge promotion at work. But, she needs money now to get some much-needed home repairs done so she can sell her house.

Tessa Simmons has always been the "good girl," the sister who lives by the rules and has the perfect suburban life. If only perfect didn't equate to boring.

When they arrive at the cottage on Nantucket, they begin down a road filled with the ghosts of their past. And when Tessa finds a final letter addressed only to her in a locked desk drawer, the two sisters will learn a secret they never saw coming...

The Cottage on Nantucket: A Women's Fiction Mystery Serial (Nantucket Point Beach Book 2) Dec 24, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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The cottage on Nantucket has always been a place of reflection and solitude for Janey Forsythe. After her first divorce, she came to the cottage to heal. When she fell in love again, she gave credit to the magic of the cottage.

Currently single again, with forty-six years of bad money decisions behind her, Janey is desperate to get her mother's will and trust settled so she can claim her inheritance and keep her secrets. After all, she doesn't want to admit to her sister that her house needs a new roof, but she can't qualify for the loan to get the job done.

But only Tessa received a letter, and Janey's world spirals out of control. She's the older sister, and she's suddenly unsure about her place in the family. The more she reads her mother's final words to Tessa, the more convinced she is that she has a letter too. She just needs to find it—oh, and pray that when she does, there's nothing too astonishing in it...

The Cottage on Nantucket: A Women's Fiction Mystery Serial (Nantucket Point Beach Book 3) Dec 31, 2020

by Jessie Newton

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Tessa Simmons knows her life looks perfect from the outside. She's made it that way so no one will look deeper. No one will see that she and her husband of twenty-five years are practically strangers. No one will know how terribly lonely she is. How utterly bored in her Pennsylvania suburb, working at the library a few times a week and spending all of her time with a patch of azaleas.

She longs to be more like her sister—someone who rides motorcycles and trains for Crossfit competitions just because she put them on her bucket list at some point. Heck, Tessa would take the life of someone who has a bucket list at all.

As the secrets come out across two letters that sometimes feel at odds with one another, Tessa will have to turn to her sister to make sense of what's really being said. When the truth is finally revealed, it rocks both Janey and Tessa to the very core.

There might be no coming back from this...

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Four Weddings and a Baby (Five Island Cove Book 6) May 11, 2021

by Jessie Newton

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Four weddings and a baby are on their way to Five Island Cove!

When disaster strikes, whose wedding will be postponed? Who will have to make adjustments they don't want to make? Whose dreams will be underwater?

And there's a baby coming too... Best friends, old and new, must learn to work together to clean up after a natural disaster that leaves bouquets and altars, bassinets and baby blankets, in a soggy heap.

Join Alice, AJ, Kelli, Robin, Kristen, Eloise, and Laurel as they learn how strong they really are, and the great power they hold as women.

The Cottage on Nantucket: A Women's Fiction Mystery Serial (Nantucket Point Beach Book 5) Jan 14, 2021

by Jessie Newton

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Tessa Simmons only speaks her mind when she's passionate about something. As she and her sister, Janey, attempt to sift through all they've learned on Nantucket, the final letters they've found, and how to divide everything up, Tessa is willing to stand up for herself.

Each sister has erroneous beliefs about the other, and the discussion turns heated. Janey finally admits her financial plight, which prompts Tessa to share her personal family and marriage woes. Even so, a little bonding can't change Tessa's mind about what they should do. She rarely stands up to her sister, but on this, she's firm.

Janey leaves Nantucket Point in favor of her job, and Tessa watches her sister drift away from the cottage on Nantucket. She wonders if this is the beginning of the end of their friendship and sisterhood.

After all, Janey has never walked out just because she didn't get her way.

To make sure they don't lose everything, Tessa will have to get the will and trust executed. The sharks are circling in the water, and they can smell the fresh blood the rift between the sisters has left behind...

The Cottage on Nantucket: A Women's Fiction Mystery Serial (Nantucket Point Beach Book 6) Jan 21, 2021

by Jessie Newton

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Without their mother as the glue keeping them together, two sisters must decide which is thicker: blood or water.

And on the island of Nantucket, in a cottage stuffed with dangerous secrets and the lure of money, both Janey and Tessa will have to answer this dilemma for themselves.

The end of the summer approaches, as does the time to fully execute the will before it goes into probate, where anyone can challenge it. Janey can see the sharks in the water, and she makes one last attempt to sit down with Tessa to make sure what their mother left for them stays theirs.

Can Janey and Tessa redefine the bonds of friendship and sisterhood in time? Or will they lose everything because of their own pride and stubbornness?

The Lighthouse Inn Jun 15, 2021

by Jessie Newton

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Sometimes forgiveness of the past is the only way forward.

The Lighthouse Inn, a National Historic Landmark on the island of Nantucket, needs new caretakers. Experience with sailing, running a bed and breakfast, and marine life required. Oh, and it must be a couple.

When a suitable couple can't be found, rather than risk losing the island treasure, the Nantucket Historical Society hires two unrelated women to run The Lighthouse Inn.

Julia Harper has just learned her husband no longer loves her and he's just been waiting for the children to become adults so he could leave. She's desperate to get out of her neighborhood and rediscover herself now that her three sons are grown and making names for themselves. Hopeful, Julia applies for the job of caretaker at The Lighthouse Inn. After all, she's got experience managing a diner and her ex-husband's office, as well as an old, unused degree in marine biology.

Madelynne Lancaster finds herself in a similar situation: newly divorced, with old money in her bank account but no one to spend it on. No children, no spouse, no friends to speak of, as they all left with her politician ex-husband. Bitter, Madelynne also applies for the caretaker job at the inn. Her qualifications? She holds a commercial boat operator's license, a culinary certificate, and the ability to budget down to the penny.

The Society pairs the two women together to begin running the inn, not knowing that they're bitter enemies. Both women sign year-long contracts without knowing who their partner will be.

When they come face-to-face at the inn on Nantucket Point, Julia and Madelynne are horrified and dumbstruck—and bound together for the next twelve months...

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