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 So we unpublished that first book and I started over, rewriting what became Just Me.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.