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Second chances, salt air, and the women who never stopped believing in love.

Libby Whitfield, author of clean, heartwarming Southern coastal women's fiction

Coming this Christmas · November 24 to December 15, 2026

Juniper Bay Christmas

Four linked Christmas romances at the Lantern House, a historic harbor inn on the Georgia coast. Hidden lanterns. Love letters from 1962. And a town that turns out for the Christmas Eve Lantern Walk.

Clean & HeartwarmingNo bad language, no bedroom scenes. Just love stories that feel like home.
Heroines in Their FortiesWomen at a turning point, finding out the best chapters can come later.
One Georgia CoastFour towns a short drive apart, where old friends keep turning up.
Notes from the Porch
The Porch List

Pull up a chair. There's a pan of lemon bars cooling on the counter.

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Stories for women who never stopped believing in love

Libby Whitfield writes clean, heartwarming women's fiction about second chances, salt air and the friendships that carry us through. Her heroines have lived a little. They've buried husbands, raised children and started over, and they're about to find out the best is still ahead.