Maine Lumberjacks Series by Daphne Elliot: Reading Order (5 Books)
Welcome to Lovewell, Maine. Where the moose outnumber the people and you can’t swing an axe without hitting a handsome lumberjack.
The Maine Lumberjacks is a new series of contemporary, small-town romances featuring a new mystery, new tropes, and the same old Clive.
If you enjoy flirty banter, wood chopping, moose shenanigans, and possessive mountain men, then take a trip to Lovewell and meet the Maine Lumberjacks.
Maine Lumberjacks Series Books In Order
The Maine Lumberjacks Series are ALL standalones but are most fun when read in order!
Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Melody Publishing, LLC
Page Count:512
Caught in the Axe: Maine Lumberjacks Book 1 by Daphne Elliot
A Grumpy Boss Lumberjack Romance
Caught in the Axe is a standalone small-town romance featuring a nerdy, grumpy lumberjack with a heart of gold hidden under his flannel shirt and a sunshine ex-beauty queen who loves to challenge him.
My ex’s brother is officially off-limits. Right?
He’s ten years older.
He’s only in town for a few weeks.
And did I mention he’s my ex-boyfriend’s brother?
But when I agree to be the grumpy lumberjack’s temporary assistant, it gets harder and harder to resist him. He’s all beard, broad shoulders, and growls, but I savour every one of his rare smiles.
I’m so close to the fresh start I’ve been working toward for so long, but while I’m ready to leave behind the moose, the lumberjacks, and the crazy small-town gossip, I can’t stay away from Owen.
We’re tasked with cleaning up a disaster so his family can move on from their painful past, and we can only succeed if we trust one another. Our late nights, road trips, and inside jokes bring us too close and make it difficult to stay away.
And while on a business trip, we don’t just cross the line, we demolish it.
We’ve both been burned by the small-town rumour mill, so we agree to keep things quiet. But secrets don’t stay in Lovewell for long, and it’s only a matter of time before we get caught in the act.
We’re headed in different directions and living different lives.
And no matter how badly I want him, he can never truly be mine.
“You can have whatever you want. I’m all yours.
For tonight, this year, or forever. I’m here if you want me.”
Totally Booked UK Review
As soon as he could, Owen Herbert left Lovewell, Maine, behind and has only returned a handful of times. His life is in Boston, where he works for the Di Lucu Construction company with his best friend, Enzo. A call from home has him packing up his Audi and heading to Lovewell to help sort out the mess his father left behind at the Herbert Lumber family business after being arrested over a year ago. He needs to convince his brothers that it is time to sell up and cut their losses.
A year ago, Lila returned to her hometown with her tail somewhat between her legs. After following her wannabe hockey player around the states, she decided enough was enough and ended things. Lila had put her life on hold for Cole’s dreams, completing community college courses around his life. She hopes to complete grad school in New York in the fall and live with her two best friends. For now, she is working at the diner and tutoring, saving as much money as possible. Pleased when a new jb offer comes up from the Herbert brothers.
Needing help to sort through paperwork, invoices, accounts, etc. Owen is surprised when his brother Gus tells him they have someone to help. Although he didn’t immediately realise that the beauty before him was Lila – the same Lila who dated his half-brother for eight years. Owen Herbert is hot! Lila can admit that to herself, but only to herself, as he is older than her and Cole’s half-brother. But as the pair start to make their way through the giant task ahead of them.
There are moments when sparks fly between them. Unsure how to navigate his feelings for Lila, as she should be off limits, but he has never felt this way about a woman before. Attempting to have a one-weekend fling in Boston together leads to them temporarily dating before Lila goes to grad school. But as they deal with the sale of the business, their feelings grow – how will they ever be able to say goodbye?
Publication Date: 22nd July 2024
Publisher: Melody Publishing, LLC
Page Count: 428
Pain in the Axe: Maine Lumberjacks Book 2 by Daphne Elliot
A Divorced Exes Small Town Romance
Pain in the Axe is a standalone small-town romance featuring a grumpy boss heroine and a grumpy lumberjack hero who just happen to be divorced exes
How to get revenge on your ex-husband:
Step one: buy his family’s lumber company.
Step two: demote him and force him to work for you.
Step three: sit back and enjoy the sweet victory.
Not part of my genius plan? Sleeping with the enemy.
Gus Hebert is no ordinary ex-husband. This grumpy lumberjack is hiding a big, squishy heart beneath those broad, flannel-clad shoulders. And he delights in pushing my buttons, challenging me, and flirting nonstop.
Our mutual dislike grows as we’re forced to work together. Until one night, after a little too much wine, the fighting turns into foreplay.
The situation only gets more complicated when I discover that I’m having my ex-husband’s baby.
I fell for his broken promises once before and vowed never to trust him again. But as things heat up at work and at home, and past mistakes threaten our future, we find that, together, we make a pretty good team.
Soon, I’m rediscovering long-forgotten dreams. And I can’t give into these growing feelings and fall for him again. Because now I have two hearts to protect.
“You can leave,” he murmured, his voice so low his words were barely audible.
“But you need to know that I never got over you. I don’t even want to anymore.
You are magnificent and deserve everything.”
Totally Booked UK Review
CEO of Strategic Timber, Chloe LaBlanc, has invested in many timber companies; however, the latest one is purely for her and somewhat personal. Hearing at the last minute that Herbert Timber was seeking a buyer, she paid over the odds to secure the sale. Arriving to sign the contracts, she is late into the boardroom in order to give a grand entrance, before coming face to face with her ex-husband, August Herbert. The man who broke her heart twenty years ago and whom she has requested to stay on as general manager for a year.
Gus Herbert had worked tirelessly gaining a number of qualifications to hopefully gain a seat at the management table of his families timber company. His father and uncle Paul alway dismissing him and with good reason on their part after the FBI bust of illegal activities being run through the land. Fast forward 18 months and Gus and is brothers are selling the timber company. Gus had plans to move west for a new job but a clause in the sale has him remaining for a year.
Seeing his ex-wife walk into the contract signing awoke something in Gus. He’d log given up hope that she would come back to him after she got on a plane twenty years ago, But, now, standing in front of him, he can’t help but hope that this is his second chance. Although the rub each other up the wrong way and hold on to resentment from the past. The FBI still sticking their nose into things at the company has Chloe and Gus spending time together and sharing passionate hate sex.
Whilst they attempt to get the timber company back on an even keel they have to navigate attacks, setbacks and unexpected news. But as truths are revealed are they able to move on from the past and look forward to the future?
Axe-identally Married: Maine Lumberjacks Book 3 by Daphne Elliot
A Hockey Lumberjack Romance
Axe-identally Married is a marriage of convenience romance featuring a sassy plus-size doctor and a cinnamon roll hockey player with a heart of gold.
I used to be a good girl.
That is until I woke up in Vegas married to a former hockey player who also happens to be my best friend’s ex.
Cole Hebert and I are opposites. I’m the new town doctor, a rule follower, and five-five on a good day. He’s the six-seven bad boy currently doing court-ordered community service.
I’m struggling to earn the respect of the people in our hometown, and he’s doing some soul searching after an injury ended his hockey career. We’ve already drunkenly said I do, so we agree to a marriage of convenience.
Forced to live together, we slowly became friends. I see a side of Cole I never knew existed. He coaches kids’ hockey, knits for the entire town, and loves snuggling while watching Jeopardy.
Soon, we’re growing closer, and the way the hockey-playing lumberjack worships my plus-size body and obsessively calls me his wifey has me embracing my inner bad girl and tearing down all my carefully constructed walls.
Our feelings eventually burn as bright as our passion, but the small town we both love is harbouring dark secrets. After a shocking discovery, we learn there are those who want us silenced forever, and we’re forced to risk it all to protect our happily ever after.
Publication Date: 28th October 2024
Publisher: Melody Publishing, LLC
Page Count: 486
Axe Backwards: Maine Lumberjacks Book 4 by Daphne Elliot
A Single Dad Lumberjack Romance
Axe Backwards is a standalone small-town romance featuring a bleeding-heart heroine, a lumberjack firefighter, and a cute baby.
Once in a while, after life gets you down, the universe throws you a bone. And if you’re really lucky, it comes in the form of a tattooed baby-wearing firefighter with piercing blue eyes and a heart of gold.
When Noah Hebert swung his axe and rescued me from a coffee shop bathroom, I had only a vague sense of who the tattooed lumberjack was. Turns out he’s more than broad shoulders and a thick beard. He’s a devoted single dad and my new neighbour.
Soon after, we find ourselves falling into an easy friendship. I help him with his fussy baby, and he helps me survive my ex-husband and little sister’s wedding. Despite my vow never to risk my heart again, my defences quickly crumble. The sight of him rocking his sweet baby in those muscular, inked arms only makes matters worse. And when he defends me to my toxic family, the sparks of attraction between us catch fire.
I moved back here with a mission. Grow the food pantry and make our little town a better place. I can’t get mixed up with the grieving single dad, even if he likes to braid my hair and slow dance in the kitchen.
He moved across the country to escape the flames of his past and protect the little girl he now calls his own. But our town is sitting on a bed of secrets ready to ignite.
And when the heat causes my world to go up in smoke, I’m not sure it’s possible to sift through the rubble and find our happily ever after.
Publication Date: 3rd February 2025
Publisher: Melody Publishing, LLC
Page Count: 472
Axe-ing For Trouble: Maine Lumberjacks Book 5 by Daphne Elliot
A Protector Lumberjack Romance
Axe-ing For Trouble is a standalone small-town romance featuring a protective lumberjack and a daredevil heroine fighting their attraction while seeking justice.
On the run, injured, and out of options, I had no choice but to go back to him.
Back to the one place I swore I wouldn’t—because staying away was the only way to keep him safe.
Jude Hebert.
My one-night stand turned unexpected protector.
A rugged, guitar-playing lumberjack with broad shoulders and blue eyes that could light up the darkest Maine night.
And the man determined to keep me safe.
When we’re forced to hide out in his cosy cabin, we make the best of it by playing Scrabble and sharing stolen laughter, pretending the world outside isn’t closing in. He carries me like I weigh nothing, cleans my wounds with gentle hands, serenades me with his guitar and makes heat bloom beneath my skin with every stolen glance.
He insists I take the bed every night. Eventually, I ask him to stay.
The way Jude looks at me—like I’m worth protecting—breaks down my defences. Soon, he’s my protector and confidant, and in these stolen moments, I begin to imagine a life I’d long ago given up on having.
But the danger I’m running from is catching up. Though the answers I’ve been chasing are within reach, so is the threat that could destroy us both.
In the depths of the Maine wilderness, love can be wild, unexpected, and terrifying.
And sometimes it takes a burly, stubborn lumberjack to help a woman find her way home.
Publication Date: 19th May 2025
Publisher: Melody Publishing, LLC
Page Count: 448
More Books from Daphne Elliot
If you loved the Main Lumberjacks, be sure to check out other books available from Daphne Elliot.
- Mother Hater: The Momcoms Book 4 – featuring Enzo, Owen’s best friend and boss as he attempts to complete a house renovation in Boston for a tricky client.
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