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Winter Street
The Winter Street series by Elin Hilderbrand has 4 known books (4 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Winter Street (2014).
- Books
- 4 known books (4 novels)
- Published
- 4
- First published
- 2014
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Literary Fiction
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Start here: Winter Street (2014) — 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:
Winter Street
Elin Hilderbrand opened Winter Street in 2014 with the Quinn family gathering at the Winter Street Inn on Nantucket for Christmas, as patriarch Kelley Quinn's four grown children -- Patrick, Kevin, Ava and Bart -- descend amid romantic entanglements and long-simmering secrets. Running 224 pages, it sets the pattern the next three books follow: one holiday season per volume, ending on a cliffhanger that carries straight into the sequel.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Winter Street - Book 2:
Winter Stroll
"Winter Stroll" followed in 2015, growing to 276 pages -- the longest in the quartet -- as the Quinn family returns to the inn for another Christmas with the crises left dangling at the end of book one, careers, addiction and family secrets among Kelley's children, still unresolved.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Winter Stroll - Book 3:
Winter Storms
"Winter Storms" continued the series in 2016 at 246 pages, its third book, as the Quinn family's troubles escalate from romantic entanglement toward more serious fractures -- deployment, addiction and career crisis all converging on the Nantucket inn.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Winter Storms - Book 4:
Winter Solstice
Hilderbrand closed out the quartet in 2017 with "Winter Solstice," wrapping up the Quinn family's four-book arc as their cumulative secrets come to a head in a genuine structural threat to the Winter Street Inn itself -- not to be confused with the unrelated Steele family of Hilderbrand's separate Paradise trilogy.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Winter Solstice
About the Winter Street series
The Winter Street series follows the Quinn family, owners of the Winter Street Inn on Nantucket, across four consecutive Christmases. Patriarch Kelley Quinn runs the inn with his second wife while his four grown children by two marriages -- Patrick, Kevin, Ava, and Bart -- cycle through affairs, career crises, addiction, a deployment, and enough secrets to fuel a full-blown family melodrama every December. Hilderbrand, already established as Nantucket's reigning summer novelist, launched the series in 2014 to do for Christmas what her earlier books had done for beach season: give the island an unmistakable, character-driven holiday voice.
Each book covers one holiday season and ends on enough of a cliffhanger to pull readers into the next installment, with the family's crises escalating from romantic entanglements in book one to a genuine structural threat to the inn itself by the close of the series. Winter Solstice wraps up the Quinn family's four-book arc; the Steele family of Hilderbrand's separate Paradise trilogy is a different cast entirely, despite the superficial echo of "Winter" in that trilogy's opening title.
Frequently asked questions
How many Winter Street books are there?
Four: Winter Street (2014), Winter Stroll (2015), Winter Storms (2016), and Winter Solstice (2017).
Is Winter Street connected to the Paradise trilogy?
No -- despite the shared 'Winter' word in Winter in Paradise's title, the two are separate series with different casts: Winter Street follows the Quinn family on Nantucket, while Paradise follows the unrelated Steele family in the Caribbean.
Do I need to read Winter Street before Elin Hilderbrand's summer novels?
No -- it's a self-contained holiday series, independent of her Nantucket-set summer standalones.
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