Series one
One mountain town, one Main Street, a new couple in every book. Each one stands alone with a happy ending, and the whole crew keeps turning up in each other's stories. Open door, feelings first.
Book 1 · Sunrise Bakery
Fixing her life isn't the same as loving her.
Willa Donnelly runs the Sunrise Bakery on no sleep and lets nobody behind the counter. Callum Pierce is the green-flag builder next door who can't stop fixing things. He's also carrying a secret that could sell the bakery out from under her.
A steamy small-town romance about the difference between being handled and being chosen.
Book 2 · Switchback Coffee
She takes care of everyone. He came home to take care of her.
Theo Marsh comes home to Hollow Creek with a seven-year-old daughter and a leaving habit. Nadia Reyes never left. She holds Switchback Coffee and half the town together, and she won't let anybody carry her.
A steamy second-chance romance with a single dad who has to learn how to stay.
Book 3 · Cornerstone Books
She finds everyone their story. He's the one she can't read.
Iris Ashby can find anyone in Hollow Creek the book they need, except herself. August MacDougall is a recluse who writes beautiful sentences and signs none of them. When the town hands the two of them its festival anthology, it gets ideas about making them a couple too.
A steamy grumpy-sunshine bookshop romance with a little help from the matchmakers on Main Street.
Book 4 · The Larkspur Inn
He didn't take the weight. He took an end.
Della Bramble would rather go under than let anyone see her need help. Eli Hale has loved her quietly for years and never said a word. When a burst pipe at the Larkspur Inn forces her to finally call someone, the fire chief doesn't lift the weight off her. He takes an end.
A steamy winter friends-to-lovers romance about a woman learning to let the town carry her for once.
Before you start
Proof of Us, then Grounds for Us, then The Plot of Us, then Room for Us. Each one stands alone with its own couple, so you can start anywhere. Reading in order lets you watch the whole crew fall.
Open door. Feelings first, with the intimate scenes on the page. They aren't clean or closed-door romance.
Cinnamon rolls. Steady, devoted, and safe to fall for. A few are grumpy about it. No alpha-holes.
A fictional mountain town in the Pacific Northwest with one Main Street: a bakery, a coffee shop, a bookshop, and an inn.
Bakery and a grumpy-sunshine neighbor? Proof of Us. Single dad and a second chance at a coffee shop? Grounds for Us. Bookshop and a reclusive writer? The Plot of Us. Friends to lovers with a fire chief at a winter inn? Room for Us.
No. Every book ends with a happily ever after.
Rose's next series, set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. It isn't out yet. Newsletter subscribers hear about it first.
Series two · Coming next
"The Landing always calls you home."
Salt marsh, moss-hung oaks, shrimp boats at the public landing, and a town legend that nobody who belongs here ever leaves for good. Every heroine left once. Every one of them comes back. Subscribers hear about the first book before anyone else.