The Heron Creek Series
Fall for the town as hard as you fall for the couple.
A foggy stretch of the Oregon coast where the banter runs sharp, the slow burns earn their heat, and the happily-ever-after is guaranteed. Start with the prequel — it’s on the house.
- Guaranteed HEA
- Slow burn
- Found family
- Pre-orders open
The Reading Order
Four books, one small town.
Begin with the free prequel, then pre-order the trilogy — each book lands on your Kindle the morning it releases. Read them in order; Heron Creek rewards the ones who stay.
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Heron Creek · A Prequel
The Saltbox Season
Thirty years of matchmaking. Zero self-awareness.
At sixty-seven, Heron Creek’s matchmaker has paired off the whole town but never herself — until a widowed food writer walks into her café three weeks before Christmas.
- Later-in-life
- Holiday romance
- Found family
Heron Creek · Book One
Still Waters
Love thy neighbor. He’d rather not.
She bought a failing bookshop on impulse. He’s the grumpy scientist next door who thinks she’s a disaster waiting to happen. They’re both right about each other — and completely wrong.
- Grumpy/sunshine
- Forced proximity
- Bookshop romance
Pre-order now →Releases August 24, 2026 — it lands on your Kindle that morning.
Heron Creek · Book Two
High Tide
Fake dating the one that got away — what could possibly go wrong?
She left at eighteen and built a life out of not looking back. He stayed, and now he has a daughter. When his mother assumes they’re back together, neither of them corrects it.
- Second chance
- Fake dating
- Single dad
Pre-order now →Releases September 14, 2026 — it lands on your Kindle that morning.
Heron Creek · Book Three
Undertow
Her brother’s best friend. Her worst-kept secret.
A nomad photographer and her brother’s burned-out best friend share a cottage and a lawsuit — and three years of almost finally runs out of careful distance. The slow burn you’ve waited three books for.
- Friends-to-lovers
- Slow burn
- Brother’s best friend
Pre-order now →Releases October 5, 2026 — it lands on your Kindle that morning.
Welcome to Heron Creek
A town that knows your business and loves you anyway.
Heron Creek is a working harbor on the foggy Oregon coast: a bookshop that’s perpetually about to close, a saltbox café that runs on strong coffee and stronger opinions, an estuary where the herons keep watch at dawn.
Every December the whole town strings the docks with light for the Heron Festival and dares the resort developer across the water to try something. Fall for one couple here and you fall for all of them. That’s just how the place gets you.
The Free Prequel
The Saltbox Season, on the house.
The free prequel to the Heron Creek series — Doris’s December love story. Start here.
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About Ellie
Small towns worth staying for.
Ellie Calloway writes small-town contemporary romance for readers who fall for a place as hard as they fall for the couple. Her stories live on the foggy Oregon coast and in the high mountain towns of the West — bookshops and cafés, harbor docks and front-porch swings, the kind of communities where everyone knows your business and shows up with a casserole anyway.
Expect sharp banter, a slow burn that earns its heat, grumpy hearts won over by stubborn hope, and found family that feels like the real thing.
She believes in second chances, small towns worth staying for, and a happily-ever-after you can count on. Ellie lives in the Pacific Northwest with a to-be-read pile that qualifies as a fire hazard.