Beachwood Bay Beach Romance
Welcome to Beachwood Bay. The charming small-town beach romance series where every book brings laughter, second chances, and unforgettable love stories under the sun.
Set along a quirky coastal boardwalk, this heartwarming romantic comedy series is filled with strong heroines, small-town gossip, slow-burn love, and laugh-out-loud moments. Each book is a standalone romance featuring swoony heroes, found family, emotional depth, and happily-ever-afters.
From enemies-to-lovers and second chance romance to grumpy/sunshine and opposites attract, every story is brimming with relatable characters, beachy charm, and just the right amount of chaos.
Start with the free prequel, Beach House Rules, where a control-loving city girl, a grumpy flannel-wearing contractor, and one crumbling seaside cottage collide in a story full of heart, humor, and unexpected homecomings. Then dive into The Ex List, where a snarky café owner mails love letters to her exes for fun … only to have every one of them show up.
Tropes you’ll love:
Enemies to lovers
Second chances
Small town romance
Found family
Forced proximity
Opposites attract
Grumpy sunshine
Mother-daughter dynamics
Magical realism
Slow burn beach romance
Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Meghan Quinn, Lucy Score, Jenny Colgan, Elin Hilderbrand, Gilmore Girls, small-town romantic comedies, found family fiction, and slow-burn beach reads with heart and humor.
Book 1
Gilmore Girls meets The Home Edit—at the beach—with a revenge glow-up, an estranged daughter, and one flannel-wearing contractor who knows his way around a power drill.
Melissa Radford has made a career out of staying in control. But when her perfectly curated Manhattan life implodes, she heads to Beachwood Bay to flip her late grandmother’s crumbling cottage—and fast. Her plan? Renovate, sell, and get back to the city before the salt air ruins her blowout.
The locals have other plans.
Especially Dawson Evans, the grumpy, gorgeous contractor with calloused hands and zero time for high-maintenance city girls. But Melissa’s not just any city girl. And underneath all her spreadsheets and sarcasm, there’s a woman he can’t stop thinking about.
With her rebellious daughter in tow, nosy neighbors playing matchmaker, and the beach house determined to expose every crack in her carefully constructed facade, Melissa might just discover that the life she tried to escape is the one worth rebuilding.
She came to renovate a cottage. Beachwood Bay might just renovate her heart.
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Book 2
What happens when you mail love letters to your exes for fun? Chaos. Obviously.
Harper thought it would be funny. After one too many margaritas, she actually mailed the cringey, unsent love letters from high school to all her exes. Call it closure. Call it cathartic. Call it a joke.
But now the exes are back—in person.
There’s the one who ghosted her.
The one who proposed.
The one-night stand she’d rather erase.
And bad boy Ben Langston—the first love she never got over, back in town after years away, broader, more mellow, and impossible to ignore.
Suddenly Harper’s quiet seaside café is ground zero for ex-boyfriend drama, a ruthless developer who wants her lease, and the town gossip newsletter putting her humiliation on blast. Everyone else seems to be pairing off, and Harper’s convinced she’ll end up alone with only a stray cat—or twenty—for company.
But when it comes to love, sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
Perfect for fans of Beach Read, Gilmore Girls, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Ex List is a salty, sun-kissed small-town romcom full of banter, chaos, and the sweetest second chance.
Book 3
Welcome back to Beachwood Bay. The gossip's loud, the goats are judgmental, and love never stays buried for long.
She got dumped live on morning television, so naturally, Bianca Serrano fled to her seaside hometown.
When NYC sommelier Bianca Serrano's fiancé ends their engagement between the weather and sports, she does what any dignified woman would do, smiles through the humiliation, calls it "thin, with an unpleasantly bitter finish," and disappears to Beachwood Bay to hide in wine and denial.
Unfortunately, Beachwood Bay has other plans.
Her estranged mother now runs a goat yoga retreat that's one bad season away from bankruptcy. Her sharp-tongued grandmother is hiding financial secrets and dropping wisdom Bianca isn't ready to hear. And her quiet escape is shattered when she runs straight into Noah Holt, the first love she ghosted twelve years ago, who is somehow even more annoyingly perfect, still feeding the same pelican every morning, and looking at her like he remembers everything.
Now Bianca is stuck planning a town fundraiser with the man she left without a goodbye, pairing wine with goat yoga (don't ask), and pretending her heart isn't absolutely spiraling every time Noah fixes something without being asked, which is constantly.
She came home to recover. She didn't expect a goat named Gwyneth Paltrow, a grandmother who sees right through her, or a second chance with the one person who made her want to stay. The problem? Bianca has never learned how to stay. And Noah has spent twelve years learning not to hope she would.
A laugh-out-loud, closed-door beach romcom full of small-town chaos, salty banter, wine-soaked wisdom, and one woman finally learning the difference between running toward something and running away.
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Book 4
Welcome back to Beachwood Bay, where the gossip travels fast, the coffee's stronger than the Wi-Fi, and some chapters were never meant to stay closed.
Two rival bookshops. One second chance. And a beach town determined to meddle.
Ava Jensen does not believe in signs from the universe.
She believes in legal pads, plans, and knowing exactly where the exits are. Which is why losing her career, her fiancé, and her perfectly controlled Washington life in one spectacular implosion was not on the agenda.
Then her mother hands her Driftwood Books, a charmingly chaotic bookshop on the Beachwood Bay boardwalk, and promptly leaves for a three-month cruise.
Now Ava is responsible for a leaning blue storefront, a lending library that runs on trust and questionable signage, a polydactyl cat named Sidebar, and a town full of people who seem alarmingly invested in her emotional recovery.
As if that weren’t enough, the shop next door belongs to John Winston.
Her first love. Her worst heartbreak.
The boy she left behind twelve years ago after one summer, one accident, and one ending neither of them ever really survived.
Only John isn’t that reckless boy anymore. He’s steadier now. Kinder. Still devastating. Still making terrible coffee. And still able to look at Ava like he remembers every unfinished sentence between them.
Ava came to Beachwood Bay to regroup, not reopen old wounds. But with two bookshops sharing one very thin wall, a golden retriever who has no respect for boundaries, and a whole town quietly rooting for them, avoiding John may be the one plan she can’t make stick.
Because some love stories don’t end. They wait on the shelf until you’re brave enough to open them again.
The Boardwalk Bookshop is a warm, funny, feel-good beach romance with second-chance love, small-town chaos, rival bookstores, meddling friends, a judgmental cat, and a lovable dog.
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Book 5
Rose Christopher is done with the stars.
Six months ago, she was the internet’s favorite astrologer, selling birth charts to celebrities and telling millions of followers that the universe always had a plan. Then her A-list boyfriend cheated on her with a wellness influencer named Jade, the breakup went viral under #StarCrossedOut, and overnight Rose became the woman who apparently couldn’t predict her own disaster.
Now she’s back in Beachwood Bay, the last place she ever meant to live again. Back to her mother’s wildly beautiful, financially catastrophic tarot café just off the boardwalk. Back to salt air and summer tourists and the creaking old apartment above the shop where she spent half her childhood trying to become someone bigger than this town. Back to a place that still remembers her before she learned how to package herself for strangers online.
Her plan is simple: fix the books, save the café, leave by October. Then Milo Butler walks into the café on Labor Day weekend wearing a superhero cape and carrying a notebook full of moon signs. He would like his birth chart done immediately. His father arrives thirty seconds later to apologize.
Leo Butler is a widowed accountant who surfs at dawn, raises his son alone, drinks herbal tea, and believes firmly that the universe is governed by math, taxes, and practical decisions. He has absolutely no patience for astrology, cosmic guidance, or women who talk about Mercury retrograde like it’s the weather. Unfortunately for Rose, he’s also been quietly keeping her mother’s café afloat for the last two years. For free.
Now they’re stuck sharing the café’s cramped back office while Dawson’s renovation crew tears apart the front room, arguing over budgets, seasonal pricing, and whether “the universe will provide” counts as a legitimate financial strategy. Meanwhile Milo keeps appearing between them like a tiny astrologically inclined matchmaker with sticky fingers and very strong opinions about soulmates.
And somewhere between late-night bookkeeping sessions, empty beach walks, and the kind of conversations that slip past your defenses before you realize they matter, Rose starts wanting things she promised herself she was done wanting.
Stability. Family. Home. But after building an entire career on predicting everyone else’s future, Rose no longer trusts herself to choose her own. The stars never warned her about Leo Butler. Maybe fate was waiting until she finally stopped looking up long enough to see what was right in front of her.
SAND BETWEEN THE STARS is a warm, funny, deeply romantic return to Beachwood Bay: a story about second chances, found family, boardwalk summers, and discovering that sometimes the life you were trying to escape is the one that was quietly waiting to save you.
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Book 6
Coming late 2026!
Book 7 - the final book in the Beachwood Bay series!
Coming 2027!