Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandcastles | 2006 | Luanne Rice | Buy |
| 2 | What Matters Most | 2007 | Luanne Rice | Buy |
The Star of the Sea Academy series consists of Sandcastles (2006) and What Matters Most (2007). The books follow women connected to a Catholic girls’ school, exploring how the bonds and secrets from their school years shape their adult lives.
The Catholic school setting adds a layer of institutional history and shared experience that gives the friendships in these books extra weight. Luanne Rice uses the school as a touchstone for the characters’ pasts, grounding the present-day drama in decades of shared history.