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Katama Bay
The Katama Bay series by Katie Winters has 12 known books (12 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Return To Me (2021).
- Books
- 12 known books (12 novels)
- Published
- 12
- First published
- 2021
- Status
- ongoing
- Shelved under
- Literary Fiction
- Last checked
Start here: Return To Me (2021) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Return To Me
Return To Me opens the Katama Bay series in 2021, introducing readers to Katie Winters' Martha's Vineyard setting and the island family whose secrets, second chances and reconciliations will carry across the twelve-book run. At 215 pages, it establishes the clean-romance, family-drama tone that defines the rest of the series.
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Healing Tides
The second Katama Bay novel, Healing Tides continues Katie Winters' fast-releasing 2021 run of island family drama, following the Return To Me cast through more of the overlapping secrets and reconciliations that define the series. It runs 214 pages.
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Summertime Nights
Summertime Nights, the third Katama Bay book, precedes Autumn Secrets and keeps the series' Martha's Vineyard family drama moving at Katie Winters' brisk 2021 release pace. It runs 178 pages of the clean-romance storytelling the series is known for.
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Autumn Secrets
Book four of Katama Bay, Autumn Secrets appeared in 2021 as Katie Winters kept up her rapid release schedule, continuing the island community's tangle of secrets uncovered and second chances. At 193 pages, it's one of the shorter entries in the series.
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A Thanksgiving Full Of Gratitude
A Thanksgiving Full Of Gratitude sits between Autumn Secrets and A Katama Bay Christmas, giving the series' Martha's Vineyard family a seasonal turn as Katie Winters' 2021 run heads toward the holidays. It runs 191 pages of the reconciliation-driven family drama the series is built on.
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A Katama Bay Christmas
Coming after A Thanksgiving Full Of Gratitude and before New Beginnings, A Katama Bay Christmas was published in 2021 as the series' holiday-set entry, folding a festive backdrop into Katie Winters' ongoing island family storylines. At 176 pages, it's the shortest book in the series.
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New Beginnings
New Beginnings follows A Katama Bay Christmas as the seventh Katama Bay novel, carrying the extended island family's story into 2022 with the same clean-romance, second-chances formula Katie Winters established from the start. It runs 184 pages.
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Summertime Rapture
Summertime Rapture, published in 2022, returns Katama Bay to its summer-on-Martha's-Vineyard setting, with Katie Winters continuing the family-drama and romance threads that run through the whole series. It is 189 pages long.
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Sailing Home
Running 190 pages, Sailing Home was published in 2022 as the ninth entry in Katama Bay, keeping pace with Katie Winters' several-books-a-year output while following another chapter of the island family's overlapping secrets and reconciliations.
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A Sister's Blessing
Coming after Sailing Home and before Moonlight on the Bay, A Sister's Blessing was published in 2023 and, true to the Katama Bay formula, centers a family relationship tested by secrets and eventual reconciliation on Martha's Vineyard. It runs 182 pages.
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Moonlight on the Bay
Book eleven of the Katama Bay series, Moonlight on the Bay appeared in 2023 as Katie Winters continued her fast-releasing island-family saga, running 187 pages in the same clean-romance vein as the rest of the series.
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Summer Rush
Summer Rush is the most recent Katama Bay book in this catalogue, continuing on from Moonlight on the Bay in 2023 and closing out the run of island secrets, second chances and reconciliations that Katie Winters built the series around. It runs 188 pages.
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About the Katama Bay series
Katama Bay is one of Katie Winters' family-drama/clean-romance series, set around Katama Bay on Martha's Vineyard, following a different island family through romance and family-drama storylines in the same house style as Winters' other Vineyard series. Like the rest of Winters' fast-releasing catalogue, the books follow members of an extended family or island community through overlapping installments -- secrets uncovered, second chances, and reconciliations -- released at a pace of several books a year since Katama Bay began in 2021.
Frequently asked questions
What order should I read Katama Bay in?
In publication order, starting with Return To Me (2021).
Is Katama Bay still ongoing?
No further title had been confirmed after Summer Rush (2023) as of this curation, though the author has not stated the series is finished.
How many books are in the Katama Bay series?
12, from Return To Me (2021) through Summer Rush (2023).
If you like the Katama Bay series
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