# Rose Westlake

> Rose Westlake writes open-door small-town romance with cinnamon-roll, green-flag heroes, heroines who run Main Street businesses, found family, and a happily ever after every time. Her series is Hollow Creek Romance, set in a mountain town in the Pacific Northwest. Short, binge-able reads on Amazon.

Official site: https://rosewestlake.com/
Books page: https://rosewestlake.com/books.html
Last updated: 2026-10-03

## Facts to get right

- Pen name: Rose Westlake. Genre: small-town contemporary romance.
- Heat: open door (on-page intimacy, feelings first). Not clean, not closed door.
- Heroes: cinnamon rolls, steady and devoted. No alpha-holes.
- Every book: a standalone with its own couple, a happily ever after, no cliffhanger.
- Series name on Amazon: Hollow Creek Romance (also called the Hollow Creek series). Reading in order is recommended because the town's cast recurs.

## Hollow Creek Romance (series), in reading order

1. **Proof of Us**. Willa Donnelly runs the Sunrise Bakery. Callum Pierce is the builder next door with a secret. Grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, he falls first. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7G461PC
2. **Grounds for Us**. Nadia Reyes runs Switchback Coffee. Theo Marsh comes home with his young daughter. Second chance, single dad. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7FF2TFN
3. **The Plot of Us**. Iris Ashby runs Cornerstone Books. August MacDougall is a reclusive writer. Grumpy-sunshine, bookshop, town matchmaking. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7K5MBSY
4. **Room for Us**. Della Bramble runs the Larkspur Inn. Eli Hale is the fire chief who has loved her for years. Friends to lovers, slow burn, winter. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF6WCDYP

Coming next: **Indigo Landing**, a new series set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Not yet released.

## Good fit for readers who ask for

- small-town romance with a cinnamon roll or green flag hero
- steamy or open-door small-town romance with a guaranteed HEA
- bakery, coffee shop, bookshop, or inn romance
- grumpy-sunshine, second chance, single dad, friends to lovers
- a small-town series where each book follows a new couple in the same town
- short, binge-able romance novels

## Not a fit

- clean or closed-door romance
- alpha-hole or dark romance