Start Lilly Lucas with New Beginnings for arriving in a mountain town, A Place to Love for a family orchard, or This could be love for ambition and attraction in Hawaii. These are three different beginnings. You can choose the place and kind of relationship that interest you without reading every earlier book by the author first.
There is one important update for returning readers: New Memories belongs in the Green Valley route. It returns to an earlier central relationship rather than introducing a completely unrelated author series. Below are the publisher’s sequences, followed by ways to choose among them. The titles are retained as printed on the German editions; their English wording does not establish the language inside the book.
Green Valley: the current publisher sequence
The Droemer Knaur Green Valley catalog presents these eight entries, including a short novel:
- New Beginnings
- New Promises
- New Dreams
- New Horizons
- New Chances
- Find me in Green Valley
- New Wishes
- New Memories
Follow that order if you enjoy settling into a community gradually and recognizing people when they appear again. It is a particularly convenient plan for someone who already knows that the town is the main attraction. You do not need to keep deciding which premise sounds most tempting between every volume; your next choice is already on the list.
The publisher also permits independent reading within the series. That makes choosing a particular couple reasonable, but independent entry and avoiding every background revelation are different priorities. If a friend’s recommendation concerns a later pair, decide whether that relationship matters more than seeing the town’s introductions in sequence. Neither preference requires treating every number as a barrier.
Keep Find me in Green Valley in its proper form: it is a shorter story, not a full-length novel accidentally missing from a six-novel list. The distinction matters when planning a holiday reading pile or deciding what to borrow next. A shorter visit can be an appealing change of pace, but its place in the catalog does not make it an additional long novel.
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New Beginnings or New Promises: arrival versus recognition
In the publisher description of New Beginnings, Berlin au pair Lena meets former professional skier Ryan in Green Valley. This is the most direct starting point if you want the pleasure of encountering somewhere unfamiliar alongside a newcomer.
That attraction is different from simply wanting attractive mountain scenery. A newcomer must work out what an ordinary day will look like, who belongs in the household and how much of an imagined future survives contact with an actual place. As a reading preference, this offers the possibility of discovery at several scales: a room, a routine, a difficult person, a town that initially was not the destination you pictured. Choose this entrance if becoming familiar is part of the romantic pleasure you want.
New Promises instead centers snowboard instructor Izzy and her longtime friendship with Will. Consider it when the interesting question is recognition: what happens when an established way of relating no longer seems sufficient?
The contrast helps even if you ultimately read both. With a newcomer setup, a reader can enjoy learning how people behave without an existing shared history. With a friendship setup, the interest may lie in wondering which familiar habits conceal an unacknowledged possibility. You are choosing a different starting condition for attraction, rather than asking which book has the objectively better couple. For the complete town experience, begin with Lena; for a premise-led selection, Izzy provides a specific alternative.
New Memories: understand the return before choosing it
The New Memories book page identifies the eighth slot and a return to Lena and Ryan around a wedding, three years after separation. It explicitly permits reading without previous knowledge.
That permission is useful, but the premise itself tells a newcomer something about an earlier relationship. If you want to discover Lena and Ryan’s first encounter without knowing their later circumstances, read New Beginnings before exploring the newer book’s detailed description. A later return can change the questions you bring to an earlier story even when it does not reveal every event.
For someone who remembers these characters, the invitation is different: you may want to revisit them at another point in their lives. An author’s return to a couple can appeal precisely because the question is no longer how two strangers meet. There is an existing emotional investment to bring, and the possibility of considering how an earlier connection fits a changed present. That is a reason to choose this book rather than a demand that every reader catch up first.
If you stopped after New Wishes, add New Memories to your note instead of assuming that a newly illustrated New Beginnings is the next story. One is a later narrative entry; the other can be another edition of a story already on your shelf. This distinction is the most practical update for a reader whose saved list predates October 2026.
Cherry Hill: choose a family place, then follow four books
The official Cherry Hill series page gives this order:
- A Place to Love
- A Place to Grow
- A Place to Belong
- A Place to Shine
Start with A Place to Love if the appeal is a place that already matters deeply to its characters. Green Valley’s opening offers an arrival; Cherry Hill offers another sort of invitation. A reader can be interested in the relationships between people and a shared undertaking, where staying has a meaning beyond liking the view. That makes it a useful alternative when you want attachment to land, work and family in the same reading choice.
In A Place to Love, June manages the family orchard, and former partner Henry returns. This points toward a choice between competing commitments rather than only the excitement of meeting someone new.
For a reader, a return can make ordinary decisions feel charged: a conversation about staying or leaving may carry a romantic implication without needing a spectacular setting change. The reason to try this opening is the tension between responsibilities that matter and a relationship that also matters. It is not necessary to assume that one cancels out the other before you have begun reading.
A Place to Grow and A Place to Belong offer different friction
A Place to Grow brings Lilac and rival Bo into disagreement over a peach festival. The practical attraction here is a public project with different opinions about its future.
Choose that premise if you like the possibility of noticing someone through an argument that has an actual subject. A disagreement over how something should work can create a more particular interest than the label enemies to lovers alone. You may want to see whether conviction becomes attractive, whether a familiar irritation changes meaning, or whether two people can take an idea seriously while reacting strongly to each other. Those are reader questions suggested by the setup, not promises about particular scenes.
A Place to Belong instead introduces journalist Maggy and treehouse designer Flynn, with an undisclosed reason for her arrival. This is a different invitation: the possibility of feeling welcome while not having explained everything.
If you enjoy an uneasy gap between what someone presents and what they are ready to say, that premise may attract you more than the festival rivalry. There is room for a reader to care about the difference between being useful to a place and being known there. Choose the first Cherry Hill volume for the family introduction, or note which later setup particularly appeals before deciding how much background you want. You can be curious about a particular dynamic while still preferring the four-book sequence.
Hawaii Love: three books, with ambition as well as scenery
The publisher’s Hawaii Love catalog orders the series as follows:
- This could be love
- This could be home
- This could be forever
This is the route to consider when you want an island setting but also want a reason for the characters to be doing something there. A beautiful backdrop can attract your attention; a particular ambition helps you decide whether the romantic premise suits you. Treat the three titles as different invitations within this route rather than assuming that a beach setting makes every conflict interchangeable.
In This could be love, tennis player Louisa goes to Hawaii for a comeback and encounters Vince, who is renovating a surfer hostel. This is a useful first choice when attraction has to compete with an already important personal goal.
The appeal of that arrangement is not that romance must automatically interrupt ambition. As a reader, you may enjoy asking what space a person has for a new attachment when they already have a demanding plan. A goal can give the opening direction before the relationship begins to matter. If that is what draws you, start here rather than selecting the third book solely because its title sounds more conclusive.
Training and filming make the next two Hawaii choices distinct
This could be home pairs aspiring lifeguard Laurie with trainer Tristan. Consider this setup if you like attraction complicated by someone else’s assessment of your capability.
There is a useful reader distinction between being admired and wanting to be taken seriously. A training situation raises the possibility of both, and a reader may be especially interested in whether those desires reinforce or complicate each other. Choosing this premise means being curious about that role difference; it does not mean assuming that every critical remark is romantic or that the book offers professional training guidance.
This could be forever brings filmmaker Millie back into contact with surfer and former partner Chip after a fatal surfing accident in their shared past. Its reason for renewed proximity is a documentary.
That is a different kind of attention from training. A filmmaker has to look, listen and choose what to present, while an old relationship gives those choices an additional possible weight. Pick this premise if you want a reunion connected to creative work and remembered loss. The description’s reference to a fatal accident also matters when choosing your present reading mood; a welcoming cover is not a promise that every subject is light. These are premise-based distinctions, not a complete account of the novels’ content.
A Place to Shine: when the couple has an audience
In A Place to Shine, Poppy and country singer Trace must pretend to be a couple under media attention. This fourth Cherry Hill choice adds a public performance to the family-place route.
Compare that invitation with A Place to Belong. Maggy’s setup leaves something important unsaid; Poppy’s asks you to consider a relationship being presented to other people. Private knowledge and a public story create different kinds of curiosity. One makes you wonder what a person is ready to explain; the other makes you wonder how a visible performance relates to private feeling. Choose the fourth book’s premise when that gap interests you, while retaining the listed order for the full Cherry Hill introduction.
It is also a useful contrast with Millie’s film project in This could be forever. There, making a documentary supplies renewed contact with a former partner. Here, the romantic presentation itself is part of what other people see. Both can appeal to readers interested in visibility, but the attraction is not identical: observing somebody through creative work differs from having to look like their partner. That distinction gives the fourth Cherry Hill title a reason to stay on your list beyond completing a matching set.
Two Green Valley checks before your next book
If your last Green Valley title was New Wishes, distinguish New Memories from the new decorative New Beginnings. The former extends the story-world list; the latter revisits the opening work in another edition. Write the actual missing title beside your shelf list before comparing covers. That avoids treating a more recent binding as a continuation.
If your list skips Find me in Green Valley, decide whether you want the shorter visit between New Chances and New Wishes. Its slot matters for identifying the publisher sequence, while its shorter form matters for your reading plan. Neither issue is answered by counting only long novels. These two checks resolve specific Lucas catalog problems: one concerns a later return to an existing couple, the other an entry whose length makes it easy to overlook.
English titles, German text and decorative editions
The New Beginnings hardcover record advertises a bonus chapter from Ryan’s perspective. That is a particular reason for a Lena-and-Ryan reader to examine this edition: the promised extra concerns the male protagonist, rather than a different Green Valley couple.
Keep that Ryan supplement attached to New Beginnings in your reading note. For Lena and Ryan’s later reunion, choose New Memories, whose wedding premise is described above. A reader who wants another viewpoint associated with their beginning and a reader who wants their later reunion want different ways of returning to Lena and Ryan. The advertised bonus does not replace the separately listed eighth book.
The same care applies to language. New Beginnings and A Place to Love look like English titles, but the linked publisher records concern German editions. Check the language of the actual product or library record. Do not translate a title yourself and assume that your phrase identifies an official local edition. Our guide to choosing translated romance editions can help with that separate decision.
For broader differences between sequence and independent entry, see the romance series reading-order guide. Then keep your Lucas plan practical: one chosen setting, the first title you intend to read, its edition language and the next entry in that series. Browse the book catalog when you want another author or mood. Choose Green Valley for arrival, Cherry Hill for an established family place, or Hawaii Love for attraction alongside an absorbing ambition; you can explore the other routes when that desire changes.
