Winter in Paradise

Its place in Paradise

Winter in Paradise is book 1 in the Paradise series. It is followed by What Happens in Paradise. See the full Paradise reading order.

The Paradise trilogy opens with Irene Steele learning that her husband Russ has died in a helicopter crash off the coast of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands -- and that the settled, comfortable life she thought she had with him was, in fact, a carefully maintained double life. Irene and her two adult sons travel to St. John to claim his body and instead uncover a second household, hidden business dealings, and a set of secrets that unravel across all three books. It's a departure in tone from Hilderbrand's…