I’m so excited to share the cover for Anne of a Different Island, coming January 20, 2026!



She believed life could follow a plot line—until the story she was living unraveled.

Anne Gallagher has always lived by the book—Anne of Green Gables, that is. Growing up on Mackinac Island, she saw herself as her namesake: the same impulsive charm, the same wild imagination, even the same red hair (dyed, but still…). She followed in Anne Shirley’s fictional footsteps, chasing dreams of teaching and writing, and falling for her very own storybook hero.

But when a string of real-life plot twists—a failing romance, a fight with the administration, and the sudden death of her beloved father—pulls her back to the island she once couldn’t wait to leave, Anne is forced to face a truth no story ever prepared her for: sometimes, life doesn’t follow a script.

Back in the house she grew up in, Anne must confront her past and the people she left behind—including Joe Miller, the boy who once called her “The Pest”—to figure out what she wants and rewrite her story to create her own happy ending. Not the book version. The real one.

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ANNE OF A DIFFERENT ISLAND is my love letter to the original Anne, and this cover captures everything I love about her, fresh and fun, hopeful and resilient. (Thank you, art department!)

I hope you fall in love with her as much as I did.

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