Sunset on the Soreass Line: BOOK TWELVE (Soreass Creek 12)

Welcome back to Soreass Creek, the only town where gossip travels faster than the mail truck, goats crash more parades than floats, and dogs outnumber the humans two to one.

After eleven books of chaos, casseroles, and confessions, the story roars into its grand finale with more puppies, more sequins, and more secrets than ever before.

Jo McGraw thought she had her hands full with fifteen Golden Retriever puppies. She was wrong.

Maggie the Golden has just delivered a record-breaking eighteen more — a Guinness-sized litter that turns Jo’s kitchen into a barking, bottle-feeding madhouse.

That alone would have been enough chaos. But Abby Gail, the drama-queen Yorkie, has a midnight rendezvous with neighbor dog Tuffy… and ends up with six itsy-bitsy newborns of her own.

Now Jo isn’t just the caretaker of a ranch. She’s running a puppy daycare for fifty dogs — give or take a goat in a nurse’s cap.

The townsfolk want in on the action. Peach hosts naming contests, Dusty places bets, Wade tries to keep order, and Mabel insists she’s qualified as a midwife. None of it helps.

But Soreass Creek doesn’t stop for baby bottles. Because someone is leaving town “for good,” and the farewell barbecue turns into the most scandalous sendoff in town history.

Secrets fly as fast as ribs across the lawn. Who stole the mayor’s four-wheeler in 2003? Who swapped Peach’s hair dye with goat shampoo? And who spiked the puppy bottles with whiskey?

As if that weren’t enough, the holidays are right around the corner.

Halloween brings Pumpkin Patch Problem 2.0, with Goldens rolling pumpkins and Yorkies squeaking inside them straight into the beer tent.

Thanksgiving ends with puppies stealing the turkey, cranberry sauce in someone’s purse, and Dusty shouting “FOOD FIGHT!” loud enough to register on the Richter scale.

And Christmas? Let’s just say no one will forget the sight of MooDonna the goat in angel wings, Yorkies in stockings, and Peach lip-syncing carols in a sequin Santa suit.

By New Year’s Eve, the fireworks ignite early, Dusty rides a flaming outhouse into the pond, and Sheriff Rivers quits for the third time (this week).

Through it all, Jo and Wade wrestle with the hardest question of all: when family is this messy, this noisy, and this loyal… can you ever really walk away?

The final sendoff comes with the train — the “Soreass Line” — staged as a farewell that turns into one last hijacked parade of goats, Goldens, Yorkies, and casseroles.

And as the sun sets on the creek, Jo realizes the truth she’s been running from since Book One: you might outrun the gossip, but you never outrun Soreass Creek.

Sunset on the Soreass Line is the unforgettable finale to the twelve-book Soreass Creek series — a love letter to family, chaos, and small-town stubbornness. Packed with heart, humor, and more puppies than one ranch should ever hold, it’s the goodbye readers will laugh through, cry through, and never forget.