If It's Meant to Be (The Bayview Romances, #1)

Some love stories just aren’t meant to be. And some people don’t care.

While she’s lost in her biggest contract yet, freelance producer Emberlynn’s comfy small-town life gets turned upside-down by the arrival of her best friend Paisley’s older sister. Sleek, chic, impossibly cool and way more attractive than her friend’s sister has any right being, Aria is distracting—and off-limits.

Burned out from her same-old career and wanting a fresh start after her relationship ended, Aria takes a break from New York, staying with her sister in the cozy small town of Bayview as she works to launch her first business. What should have been a quiet interlude takes a turn when her sister’s best friend, and next-door neighbor, is a little too interesting—and a little too interested in her.

When their neighboring-balcony coworking sessions blossom into something more, will their secret connection convince Aria to stay? Or is it a love story that isn’t meant to be?

If It’s Meant to Be is an 80,000-word small-town, best-friend’s-sister romance and the first book in the Bayview Romances trilogy. Features a cozy small town with a big gay friend group, pining for a forbidden love interest, unpacking loaded family dynamics, sexual tension in conversations between adjacent balconies, innuendos about a guitarist’s skilled fingers, and Paisley being the human equivalent of a hyperactive scruffy cat fished out of a dumpster. Content warnings for on-page sex, a lot of gay people, and… well, just Paisley, honestly.