Later on we get to see the blossoming romance between Mel and Jack Sheridan, a retired marine. So Melinda, or “Mel”, decides to make the best of a bad situation. Melinda decides to wants to leave straight away, but she is suddenly left with a newborn baby girl that was found on the local doctor’s doorstep.Īs much as she wants to drop everything and go back to where she came from, she can’t ignore a helpless little baby. Melinda Monroe is a recently widowed nurse practitioner who follows an ad to a small town called Virgin River.Īgainst her sister’s pleas, she tries to make her home in a rent-free cabin, but the cabin is a dump and the roads are even worse. This book series basically starts off with a baby left on a front porch.

There are also many characters who are family members or friends of a character of a previous book.

However, they are all significant to the plot. Some of the characters have large appearances, and some have very small appearances. Kelly is a prominent chef in San Francisco. One repeated character is Kelly Matlock, the 34 year old sister to Jillian Matlock (the Vice President of Corporate Communications for Benedict Software Systems). You might find a couple of the same characters in several of the books, but each one contains some new and thrilling people that will change your whole outlook of the series. Virgin River Character summary:īelieve it or not, there are different characters in every single one of these books! This makes the next book even more exciting than the last. It’s hard to believe that the books are publishing as many as 20 right now, but readers just keep asking for more books. Perhaps what started the significance of the whole series were the first four books Virgin River, Shelter Mountain, Whispering Rock, and A Virgin River Christmas. She has been writing the series since 2007, and the books seem to be growing in popularity every year. Written by Robyn Carr, the number of books in the series is now going into the 20’s. The Virgin River book series are a series of books based on the fictional town of Virgin River, containing only 600 people.

Midnight kiss by robyn carr