The Merrow Bay Series
Sweet, closed-door small-town romance — salt air, found family, slow-burn longing, and a happily-ever-after you can always count on.
Three connected standalones · Closed-door / sweet · Guaranteed HEA
The Series
One little harbor town in Maine. Three siblings, three love stories, one found family. Read them in any order — each is a complete standalone with its own happily-ever-after.
Book One
She gave up everything to hold her family's inn together. He's the one thing she has no time to want.
A grumpy baker who's given up on hope. A sunshine carpenter who fixes everything but his own grief. One storm-wrecked inn, one summer, and a secret that could undo them both.
Book Two
He left six years ago with a promise he didn't keep. Now he's home — and she has to feed him.
The prodigal chef comes home to the restaurant on the pier — four hundred feet from the diner run by the woman he abandoned, who knows to the penny what his beautiful words are worth.
Book Three · Finale
He drafted the terms. She signed in green glitter. Neither of them read the part about falling in love.
To fool the town's matchmakers, Merrow Bay's loudest woman and its most buttoned-up harbormaster sign a contract to fake-date for the summer. Clause Nine: no residual attachment. Nobody told their hearts about the fine print.
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About Eliza
Eliza Merrick writes sweet, closed-door romance about small towns, big feelings, and the kind of love that shows up with a toolbox and a thermos of coffee and simply refuses to leave. Her stories are full of salt air, found family, slow-burn longing, and happily-ever-afters you never have to worry about.
When she isn't in Merrow Bay, Eliza can usually be found on a windblown stretch of the New England coast — collecting far more sea glass than any one person could possibly need, letting a cup of tea go cold because she got to the good part, and being gently bossed around by a large and deeply opinionated rescue dog. She believes the best stories, like the best towns, are the ones you never quite want to leave.
— Eliza