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Pualena Dawn: The Aloha Sisters Book One
Five sisters, fresh starts, and a whole lot of Aloha. Dawn Kalama fostered hundreds of children over the years. She was a pillar of their community in rural Hawai'i until her husband passed away, leaving her unmoored and adrift. The Aloha Sisters come together to support their mother… and to seek refuge from the stormy seas of their own lives.
Anne left the island at seventeen. When her marriage and career both come crashing down, she brings her kids home to Pualena. Can she build a new life in a place filled with the ghosts of her past?
Laurie adores her family, but she's never felt like she belonged; she always hovered at the edge of things. As her situation at home grows more desperate, will she finally accept help from the people who love her most?
Oakley has a picture-perfect life… at least at first glance. But cracks are spidering beneath her bright facade, and she needs her sisters more than any of them realize.
Halia is the eldest sister, only thirteen years younger than her adopted mother. With Dawn a faint shadow of her former self, the demands of the matriarch fall on her shoulders.
Akemi is fast approaching forty, but to her family she’ll always be the baby sister. She’s the perpetual wanderer, a globe-trotting content creator who hasn’t stayed in one place for more than a few months since the day she left home. But that might change now that the baby of the family is expecting a baby of her own…
Join the Aloha Sisters as they navigate life and love in a small town on the Big Island.
Anne left the island at seventeen. When her marriage and career both come crashing down, she brings her kids home to Pualena. Can she build a new life in a place filled with the ghosts of her past?
Laurie adores her family, but she's never felt like she belonged; she always hovered at the edge of things. As her situation at home grows more desperate, will she finally accept help from the people who love her most?
Oakley has a picture-perfect life… at least at first glance. But cracks are spidering beneath her bright facade, and she needs her sisters more than any of them realize.
Halia is the eldest sister, only thirteen years younger than her adopted mother. With Dawn a faint shadow of her former self, the demands of the matriarch fall on her shoulders.
Akemi is fast approaching forty, but to her family she’ll always be the baby sister. She’s the perpetual wanderer, a globe-trotting content creator who hasn’t stayed in one place for more than a few months since the day she left home. But that might change now that the baby of the family is expecting a baby of her own…
Join the Aloha Sisters as they navigate life and love in a small town on the Big Island.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 25, 2026
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February 16, 2026
2.5⭐️ I love the setting. I love the family aspect. I hate the info dump of a giant cast of characters. There’s the mom and her daughters and their children, plus characters we’ve met in the Big Island series. Every person had their own story line too. Instead of focusing on one person’s plot lines, we’re constantly getting snippets of everyone’s stories and that causes me to not care about any of them. I struggled with this in the prior series…which is why I haven’t completed it. Perhaps this author just isn’t for me. 🤷🏻♀️
February 5, 2026
Great start to a new series! Obviously I love the Hawaii (Big Island) setting, and the characters are so real and easy to root for. Also fun to have a few cameo's from the author's Big Island series too. I've already fallen in love with the characters and look forward to more books in this series!
March 7, 2026
complex dynamic characters
In this first book of the series I have enjoyed getting to know each of the sisters. The unfolding of each backstory has been beautifully woven into the current timeline creating a need to know how each of their stories will end.
In this first book of the series I have enjoyed getting to know each of the sisters. The unfolding of each backstory has been beautifully woven into the current timeline creating a need to know how each of their stories will end.
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