Isabelle Cornett
Small town contemporary romance set deep in the Appalachian mountains — five interconnected standalone novels, one cove, and four families that go back eight generations.
The Fox Cove series
The series runs a full turn of the mountain calendar — late summer through the following June. Every book stands alone, every book ends happy, and no book ends on a cliffhanger. Start anywhere. Most readers start at the beginning.
Book One · Late Summer
Wren Welch & Jesse Bailey
Her grandmother's will comes with a condition: live in the river cottage one full year before selling it. The neighbour who keeps turning up at the property line was the one who found her grandmother — and he is keeping a promise Wren knows nothing about.
Book Two · Winter Holidays
Sarah Reece & Marcus Hayes
He came to the cove for a craft school residency that ends in January. She has spent her whole life watching people leave. Snow, a diner that never closes, and a season neither of them planned to spend together.
Book Three · Deep Winter
Ruby Patton & Caleb Crawford
He left two weeks before their wedding and never said why. Ten years later his mother is dying and he is back in the cove, carrying the reason he has never been able to hand anyone — least of all her.
Book Four · Early Spring
Daniela Vega & Levi Crawford
Ten years of the same deputy at the same counter, ordering the same coffee, saying nothing that mattered. He never left the cove. She never left the bakery. This is the spring one of them finally says it.
Book Five · Summer · Series finale
Ellie Cooper & Wade Caldwell
Three years after her husband died, his best friend is still showing up — fixing the gutter, driving the kids, staying for supper. Nobody in the cove has said the obvious thing out loud. This summer, somebody does.
The setting
A long, narrow valley about thirty-five miles north of Asheville, where two creeks meet to make the Foxwater River. One street wide and a mile long. Around two thousand people, and it doubles in summer.
Potters, glassblowers, woodworkers and weavers, paired with fly fishing, hospitality and the seasonal trade. Most people here work more than one job, and the books say so.
Four families anchor the cove — Welch, Reece, Patton and Cooper — alongside newer arrivals, back-to-the-landers, and everyone who came for a season and stayed.
The cove is still rebuilding from the 2024 storm. The Old Bridge went out and came back. It is not what these books are about, but it is in every one of them.
About
Isabelle Cornett writes contemporary romance about small mountain towns and the people who choose to stay in them.
She is drawn to stories where the place is a character in its own right, where the work people do for a living actually matters to the plot, and where the ending has to be earned before it is given. She writes about grown people with histories, and about love that costs something.
Fox Cove is her first series.
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