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Coming 2026 · Beach Reads

Rosie Donlin

Sun-drenched, big-hearted beach reads about friendship, fresh starts, and the year that changes everything.

The Amalfi Wish by Rosie Donlin
The Lucky Year · Book One · Preorder now

The Amalfi Wish

Laurel McBride knows how to make other people's dreams come true. She just has no idea what to do with her own.

As an event planner at a Florida resort, Laurel can rescue beachfront weddings, soothe impossible clients, and solve disasters before anyone notices. But six weeks after she and five other women split an $84 million lottery jackpot, she is still answering emails, fixing everyone else's problems, and postponing her own life.

So she does something wildly out of character: she walks away from work, crosses the Atlantic, and spends July on the Amalfi Coast with the other winners. The plan is simple, sunshine, spectacular food, beautiful views, and one glorious month in which nobody needs anything from her. Then she meets Tore.

With him, Laurel cannot hide behind schedules, competence, or the carefully controlled version of herself who always knows what to do. For the first time she has enough money to choose almost anything, and now she has to work out what would actually make her happy.

Sun-drenched, romantic, and full of friendship, food, and second chances. The first interconnected standalone in The Lucky Year series, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Mary Kay Andrews, and Susan Mallery.

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The Series

The Lucky Year

When a Category 2 hurricane shuts the causeway to Calusa Key, Florida, six strangers end up at the same resort bar on a Friday in April. They split a ten-dollar lottery ticket as a joke. By morning the joke is worth eighty-four million dollars.

Laurel McBride is the events director at the Mariner's Crown who hasn't taken a vacation in thirteen years. Caroline Whitcomb's ex just got engaged to a twenty-eight-year-old on Charleston Instagram. Marisol Vega is an ER nurse from San Antonio traveling for the first time with her twelve-year-old daughter. Eloise Barlow stopped cooking the day her husband died, and that was four years ago. Piper Callahan was last year's most-watched Nashville lifestyle-creator implosion. June Park is an Atlanta corporate fixer who's been handling her brother's bad decisions since her father died.

The Lucky Year is a six-book series, one heroine per book, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend, Mary Kay Andrews's The Newcomer, and Susan Mallery's friendship-ensemble novels.

The Author

About Rosie Donlin

Rosie Donlin writes commercial women's fiction. The Lucky Year, a six-book series about six friends who split a lottery ticket on a Friday in April and have a year to figure out what to do with it, launches in 2026 with Laurel's story on the Amalfi Coast. Rosie lives in San Francisco.

The Weekend We Won, a free Lucky Year prequel by Rosie Donlin Free prequel story

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Before the villa and the Amalfi Coast, there was the storm that stranded six strangers at one resort bar and the ten-dollar ticket that changed all their lives. The Weekend We Won is a free prequel to The Lucky Year, yours the moment you join the readers' list.

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