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. The gossip travels fast, the coffee's stronger than the Wi-Fi, and some rivalries are just getting started.
Ava Jensen has a five-year plan, a color-coded calendar, and a corner office at one of D.C.'s most prestigious law firms. What she doesn't have? Time for chaos, small-town drama, or the beach town where she spent one reckless summer and left pieces of herself she's never gone back for.
But when her mother retires without warning and announces she's handing over the keys to their family's crumbling boardwalk bookshop, Ava's pristine plans go up in smoke. Suddenly she's trading contract law for contractor quotes and arguing with the building inspector about "historical character."
The last thing she needs is Lucas Moretti.
The infuriatingly charming owner of the bookstore next door has big opinions about Ava's renovation plans, bigger opinions about her "corporate approach" to bookselling, and the kind of smile that suggests he remembers exactly who she was before she became this polished, professional version of herself.
He's her competition. Her critic. And the one person in Beachwood Bay who refuses to be impressed by her résumé.
She definitely doesn't need the way he makes her laugh. Or the late-night arguments about first editions that turn into something else entirely. Or the growing suspicion that the life she's been building might not be the life she actually wants.
Ava Jensen doesn't do small towns. She doesn't do second chances. And she absolutely doesn't fall for the man who's determined to out-sell her.
But Beachwood Bay has never cared much for plans.
Coming late summer 2026!
Book 5
Coming fall 2026!
Book 6
Coming 2027!
Book 7 - the final book in the Beachwood Bay series!
Coming summer 2027!