Jacquelyn Johnson writes warm-hearted contemporary women’s fiction about relationships and the search, luck and magic of finding home, love, family and  love that can last a lifetime.

There are sisters and secrets, lovers and lies, triumphs and tragedies, all taking place in the charming towns and villages on and near the spectacular Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia and north of Boston.

Heros are truly heroic, though sometimes a bit misguided. Heroines are smart and feisty, but they can make mistakes, putting lives and loves in peril.

My co-writer.

Why did you write the Morley Stories Series?

There was never going to be a Morley series. There wasn’t even going to be one book. It was simply that a girl came into my head and wouldn’t leave me alone, so I thought I’d tell one story with her in it. One story. Probably a short story. She had other ideas.

This girl didn’t just politely suggest I write about her, she insisted that I take notes and she had a LOT to say. So, I started writing. And writing.

Eventually, it seemed, we came to the end of the story. We published that book and it was a real door-stopper.

Then two things occurred to me, besides the fact that this book was so long that probably nobody would want to read it. One was that even though this book was too long, it wasn’t complete. It was huge chunks of two stories, sort of stuck together, when it really needed to be two books. So we unpublished that first book and I started over, rewriting what became Just Me. Morley and Feather’s Girl. Together, they tell the story of a girl who wants to put her family back together and make them happy again. She does this, though not quite the way she intended to, as it turns out.

By then I knew that Morley’s friend Sam Park also has a story to tell, as she does in the next two books in the series, Mothers and Daughters, which is a Christmas story (it was originally a novelette published as Gifted, but later re-titled and re-written to the book it is now) and Rules for Flying. Then, it seemed Morley had more to share as her quest to find her ‘real’ family continued, so the result is Secrets and Lies.

An expanded version of Just Me. Morley is now available, and the entire series has new covers for 2025.

The sixth book in the series, Daddy’s Girl, will be published early in 2025.

Why did you write the North of Boston Series?

North of Boston is a new series that debuts in January 2025 with the first title, Look Into Your Heart. It’s about a food and lifestyle writer and editor who loses her dream job, meaning she can no longer afford her single girl city life. Then a former friend offers a short-term project that comes with a generous paycheck. The problem is he’s the boy she loved and lost years ago. Can she work with him now, and not fall back in love with him?

So I got to the end of that book and I wanted to know what happened next? As you so often do, when the whole story just seems to wrap up so quickly, and you wish you could spend more time with this couple, in their world, because everything isn’t really wrapped up yet for them. In fact, they might not stay together …

So that led to the second book in this series, Are You Still Mine, coming out in Spring, 2025.

Which then made me think about two of the characters that are in the first two books. In the first two books they’re not a couple. They don’t even know each other, but I began to think, what would happen if they met? Would they even like each other? Would there be some kind of spark? After all, they’re quite different than the couples in the first two books. Very different backgrounds. Different challenges in their lives. Different things they need to overcome. Help each other overcome. And find the strength to face up to …

And that’s the book I’m writing now.

North of Boston Book 3 (As yet untitled) Coming to you early Summer 2025.