Beachwood Bay

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.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.

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.