Vermont Saga

I Saw You First | One Floor Apart | Say Yes to Me | The Promise of an Us

A group of university students in Vermont watch as love, guilt, and loyalty become irreversibly entangled. Forbidden relationships, love triangles, and second chances shape their lives as they attempt to rebuild themselves amid grief, desire, and friendship. A choral contemporary romance saga by one of the genre’s most beloved writers.

The Vermont Saga, by Patricia Bonet, is a contemporary new adult romance tetralogy set in Burlington, Vermont, where a group of young university students face the consequences of love, guilt, grief, and second chances.

With an emotional and intimate tone, the saga builds self-contained yet interconnected stories in which the past never fully disappears and relationships evolve from book to book.
At the heart of the saga are strong friendships, intense family bonds, and romances shaped by difficult choices. College hockey, academic life, and everyday settings serve as the backdrop for stories that explore forgiveness, personal reconstruction, and above all, love and its complications.

In I Saw You First, Chelsea Wallace returns to university after a serious accident that left her boyfriend, Brad Hamilton, in a coma and scarred her both physically and emotionally. Burdened by guilt, she faces the hostility of Scott Hamilton, Brad’s cousin, who accuses her of having abandoned him.

However, when Scott becomes her physical therapist, their relationship shifts toward an intense and forbidden attraction. While Brad remains hospitalized, Chelsea and Scott fall in love in secret, trapped between desire and loyalty. When Brad wakes up, Scott flees, unable to face the situation. Chelsea breaks up with Brad and, after months of pain, Scott returns determined to fight for her.

In One Floor Apart, Hailey Wallace, Chelsea’s twin sister, is the impulsive, theatrical, and visceral protagonist. Shawn Porter, Scott’s best friend, is brilliant, arrogant, and burdened by a womanizer reputation he despises.
After an anonymous encounter years earlier, their paths cross again at university, in the same building and on stage. Forced to share a musical, the tension between them grows amid pride and desire.

While Hailey protects her sister and Shawn faces rejection from his family for choosing literature over medicine, the two begin a secret relationship. When Shawn receives a job offer in London, Hailey must decide whether to stay or take a chance on herself.

In Say Yes to Me, Helena Cortés, a drama student, carries a toxic relationship with her family and the fear of pursuing her dreams. Meanwhile, Luke Fanning, captain of the hockey team, is on the verge of losing his scholarship if he fails French.

When he discovers that Helena can help him, a relationship begins marked by attraction, forced cohabitation, and a fake romance during her sisters’ wedding in Los Angeles. Amid lies, family wounds, and uncomfortable truths, the two end up falling genuinely in love.

In The Promise of an Us, Brad Hamilton, unable to return to hockey after the accident, struggles with physical pain, depression, and the loss of his former future. At the same time, TJ (Tayra Jordan), a physical therapy assistant, cares for her mother, who is ill with cancer, and her younger deaf sister while surviving through sacrifice.

When their paths cross at the hospital, the connection is immediate, and both learn to support one another. After the death of TJ’s mother, Brad becomes her unconditional support. The novel closes the saga with a love story based on care and the conscious construction of a shared future.

RELEVANT INFORMATION: Patricia Bonet is a Spanish writer specializing in contemporary romantic fiction. She began her literary career in the digital sphere and self-publishing before moving into traditional publishing with major publishing houses. She is one of the most prominent romance and new adult authors in Spain.

The Vermont Saga has strong audiovisual potential thanks to its structure, setting, and narrative arcs, with intense and recognizable conflicts. Each novel functions as a self-contained love story, ideal for structuring independent seasons connected by a shared universe and recurring characters.
All the novels feature a solid dramatic core from which storylines of romance, grief, friendship, and personal growth unfold. With young and charismatic protagonists, agile dialogue, and easily adaptable settings, the saga naturally lends itself to a contemporary fiction series aimed at a broad audience, with a particularly strong connection to young adult and adult viewers.

AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV series, Miniseries, Feature film, TV film.

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.