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Mount Desert Island
The Mount Desert Island series by Katie Winters has 7 known books (7 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Secrets in Bar Harbor (2021).
- Books
- 7 known books (7 novels)
- Published
- 7
- First published
- 2021
- Status
- ongoing
- Shelved under
- Literary Fiction
- Last checked
Start here: Secrets in Bar Harbor (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:
Secrets in Bar Harbor
Secrets in Bar Harbor opens the Mount Desert Island series in 2021, introducing the extended Bar Harbor family whose overlapping secrets and reconciliations carry Katie Winters' coastal-family-drama through the rest of the series. At 218 pages, it is the longest entry, setting up the fast-releasing installments that follow.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Secrets in Bar Harbor - Book 2:
Deception in Bar Harbor
The second installment of Mount Desert Island, Deception in Bar Harbor picks up right after Secrets in Bar Harbor as more of the family's hidden histories come to light. Also published in 2021, it runs 205 pages and continues Katie Winters' pattern of overlapping secrets and reconciliations set against Bar Harbor, Maine.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Deception in Bar Harbor - Book 3:
Christmas in Bar Harbor
Christmas in Bar Harbor brings a holiday backdrop to the third entry in Katie Winters' Mount Desert Island series, published in 2021 at 203 pages. It follows Deception in Bar Harbor and precedes New Horizon in Bar Harbor, keeping the Bar Harbor family's secrets and reconciliations moving forward through the season.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Christmas in Bar Harbor - Book 4:
New Horizon in Bar Harbor
New Horizon in Bar Harbor moves the Mount Desert Island series into 2022, continuing the extended Bar Harbor family's overlapping secrets and second chances. At 173 pages, it sits between Christmas in Bar Harbor and Glistening Sunsets in the series' publication order.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of New Horizon in Bar Harbor - Book 5:
Glistening Sunsets
Glistening Sunsets is the fifth Mount Desert Island novel, published in 2022 as Katie Winters continues the Bar Harbor family's story of secrets and second chances against the Maine coastal setting. It runs 173 pages, matching its immediate predecessor, New Horizon in Bar Harbor.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Glistening Sunsets - Book 6:
Bar Harbor Nights
Bar Harbor Nights, the sixth book in Mount Desert Island, continues Katie Winters' Bar Harbor family saga in 2022, following Glistening Sunsets and leading into the series' final entry, A New Light. Like the rest of the series, it weaves reconciliation and revelation into its Maine island setting.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Bar Harbor Nights - Book 7:
A New Light
A New Light closes out the Mount Desert Island series as its seventh and, so far, final entry, published in 2023 at 178 pages. It carries Katie Winters' Bar Harbor family through one more round of secrets and reconciliation, and no further title had been confirmed after it as of this curation.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of A New Light
About the Mount Desert Island series
Mount Desert Island is one of Katie Winters' family-drama/clean-romance series, set in and around Bar Harbor, Maine, following a family through secrets and reconciliations in Winters' recurring coastal-family-drama style. 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 Mount Desert Island began in 2021.
Frequently asked questions
What order should I read Mount Desert Island in?
In publication order, starting with Secrets in Bar Harbor (2021).
Is Mount Desert Island still ongoing?
No further title had been confirmed after A New Light (2023) as of this curation, though the author has not stated the series is finished.
How many books are in the Mount Desert Island series?
7, from Secrets in Bar Harbor (2021) through A New Light (2023).
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