Sun-drenched, big-hearted stories about complicated friendships, fresh starts, and women finally making room for what they want.
On sale October 31, 2026
Laurel McBride knows how to make other people's dreams come true. She has no idea what to do with her own.
Burned-out luxury-resort events director Laurel McBride can rescue a beachfront wedding, soothe an impossible client, and solve a disaster before anyone realizes there was one. But after she and five other women split an $84 million Powerball jackpot, Laurel discovers that money is easier to manage than freedom.
The women make a pact: one month, one place, and one thing each of them truly wants. When her turn comes, the other five will show up.
Laurel chooses the Amalfi Coast. Her wish is to learn how to be a guest.
At Villa Zagara, her friends are determined to confiscate her schedule, keep her at the table, and show her what fourteen million dollars can buy. At Hotel D'Amico, Tore D'Amico sees through her in sixteen minutes.
Tore is fighting to preserve the family hotel that has defined his life. Laurel knows exactly how to help him save it. The problem is that he never asked her to fix it.
Surrounded by lemon groves, long lunches, glittering water, and five women who expect nothing from her except her company, Laurel must decide what she wants when being needed is no longer the same as being loved.
Preorder on AmazonOne tropical storm. Six women. One winning ticket. A year that changes everything.
Over Memorial Day weekend, a tropical storm closes the causeway to Calusa Key, Florida, stranding six women at the Mariner's Crown. They gather at the same resort bar, split a quick-pick Powerball ticket, and wake to an $84 million jackpot.
Before they leave, they make a pact: one month, one place, one thing each woman truly wants. When her turn comes, the other five show up.
A luxury-resort events director who has spent years making herself indispensable to everyone but herself.
She built a beautiful Charleston life around a marriage she no longer misses. Now her former husband is marrying someone young enough to be her daughter.
A San Antonio ER nurse who wants to say yes to her twelve-year-old daughter before calculating how many overtime shifts it will cost.
A widow who still cooks for two and carries the second loaf to a neighbor before it can go stale on her table.
She has spent so long turning her life into content that she no longer knows what belongs only to her.
An Atlanta corporate fixer who can solve almost any problem, especially when it belongs to someone else.
The Lucky Year is a twelve-book interconnected series following six women through the year after their lottery win. Each novel blends an escapist destination, complicated female friendship, humor, grown-up romance, and the one question money cannot answer: what do you truly want?
Rosie Donlin writes destination women's fiction about complicated friendships, second chances, and women figuring out what they truly want. Her books blend escapist settings, grown-up romance, humor, memorable meals, and plenty of reasons to pour another glass of wine.
Rosie lives in San Francisco.
A Free Lucky Year Prequel
Before the Amalfi Coast, before Tore D'Amico, and before any of them knew what fourteen million dollars would do to their lives, six women sat down at the same resort bar.
A tropical storm had closed the causeway. The hotel was cut off from the mainland. One quick-pick ticket gave them something to laugh about while they waited for the road to reopen. By Sunday, they were lottery winners.
The Weekend We Won is the free origin story of The Lucky Year, including the storm, the ticket, the first promises, and the moment Laurel writes Amalfi on the back of a gold place card.
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Read the free prequel