27 Juli If You Love Colleen Hoover, You Need to Read Glasswater
I get asked a version of the same question a lot: „What do I read after I finish a Colleen Hoover book and I’m not ready to leave that feeling behind?“
That ache — the one where a book cracked you open a little and you don’t want to be handed something shiny and easy right after — is exactly what I wrote Glasswater for.
If you love Colleen Hoover’s emotional gut-punches, Devney Perry’s small-town warmth, or Mia Sheridan’s slow-burn healing, I think you’re going to feel right at home here. Let me introduce you to the town.
Welcome to Glasswater
Glasswater is a small town on the shores of Lake Superior, the kind of place where everyone knows your history and your secrets rarely stay buried. It’s cozy on the surface — a farmer’s market, a lakeside café, a town square everyone passes through eventually — but underneath that charm, every book in this series is about the same quiet, difficult truth: love doesn’t just mean finding someone else. It means learning how to rebuild yourself first.
That’s the emotional core running through every Glasswater book: broken but resilient characters, morally complex love, and a community that shows up for its people even when they don’t think they deserve it.
The Walls We Break
Savannah Morris comes home to Glasswater after escaping an emotionally abusive relationship. She moves in with her brother, Wylder, and can’t avoid his best friend, Cole Diver: a former Army Staff Sergeant living with PTSD, convinced he’s incapable of love. What starts as a friends-with-benefits arrangement — no feelings, no sleepovers, absolute secrecy — becomes the one thing neither of them can control. It’s a brother’s-best-friend romance with real weight to it: a wounded hero, a heroine relearning who she is without the person who diminished her, and the question underneath everything:
„Can you love me at my worst?“
The Home We Make
Avery Donnel’s life looks perfect from the outside — married, a son she adores, a home that runs like clockwork. Then she discovers her husband’s affair, and everything she built her identity around starts to come apart. What she finds instead is Deacon King: a guarded, retired cowboy who doesn’t think he deserves the kind of permanence she’s offering him.
It’s grumpy x sunshine, forced proximity, and a slow Christmas-set healing story about choosing a different life when the one you built stops being yours.
Why Read the Series in Order (or Don’t)
Every Glasswater book stands completely on its own — new couple, new arc, no cliffhangers. But the town and its people carry through each story, so if you read them in order, you’ll start recognizing faces at the farmer’s market and feeling like you actually live there. That’s the whole point.
If any of these questions found something in you — can you love me at my worst, am I allowed to choose a different life — Glasswater was written for you.
Start with The Walls We Break, out now, with The Home We Make arriving this Christmas.
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