Margot Albury

Their father drove a fifteen-year-old car and checked every receipt. At the divorce, his daughters learned he was worth forty million.

The Cottage Off the Books is the first Merrow Island novel. Three sisters, the parents they thought they knew, and a ferry-only island off the North Carolina coast.

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Cover of The Cottage Off the Books: a gray-shingled cottage with a coral roof, blue shutters and a white porch at sunset, with a ferry on the water behind it.

Warm, witty novels about families

Margot Albury writes about families: the secrets they keep, the money they argue about, and the love that turns up anyway.

Her novels are clean, funny where life is funny, and honest where it hurts. Each series is its own place, and every book finishes its own story.

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Merrow Island

Family saga, clean. Five books, set on a ferry-only island off the North Carolina coast.

Their father drove a fifteen-year-old car and checked every receipt. At the divorce, his daughters learned he was worth forty million.

  1. 1The Cottage Off the BooksComing soon to Kindle
  2. 2Nothing to SpareComing soon to Kindle
  3. 3All Accounted ForComing soon to Kindle
  4. 4Title to comeBeing written
  5. 5Title to comeBeing written

Visit Merrow Island The books in order

Next from Margot Albury

After Merrow Island come new towns, new families and more love stories.

The next series is being planned. Its name, its town and its first cover go to the newsletter before they go anywhere else.

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