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The Harbour Between Us

Three sisters. One house by the water. More than one way home.

As their mother steps away from the family guesthouse, three sisters must decide what they want to keep, what they need to change and who they are willing to love.

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The Harbour Between Us: the three covers of the pack

The concept

Saltmere House has always been where the Ellison sisters return when life becomes difficult. Now it needs them to stay long enough to make decisions. Across three interconnected romances, Mara, Beth and Eden redefine home through second chances, grief, divorce and the pull of an unfinished life. The guesthouse offers continuity, but each woman’s central love story reaches its own hopeful resolution.

Saltmere HouseA long-stay guesthouse above the harbour: breakfast smells, creaking staircases and a terrace where important conversations happen after everyone else has gone to bed. The building is loved, imperfect and expensive to maintain.
A Working Coastal TownFerries, a school music room, year-round residents and seasonal jobs keep the setting rooted in everyday life. This is a place to make a future, rather than a holiday that fixes everything.
Intended readershipFor adult romance readers who enjoy coastal settings, family relationships and emotionally grounded couples with full lives beyond the romance.
Reader promiseThree central love stories and three happily-ever-afters. The family business changes without requiring every sister to want the same future or sacrifice her work to prove her love.
Tone & contentTender, intimate and hopeful, with room for warmth and humour. Moderate open-door heat in the novels. Themes include divorce, bereavement, family expectations and career uncertainty; the blurb copy is non-explicit.

The people behind the promise

Mara Ellison • 34 / Finn Alder • 36A cookbook editor and a ferry captain with unfinished history. Both once mistook a decision made in fear for an act of generosity.
Beth Ellison • 38 / Daniel Sayer • 40A recently divorced guesthouse manager and a widowed music teacher. They want companionship without asking a new love to erase the lives that came before.
Eden Ellison • 31 / Oren Hale • 35A community nurse and a building surveyor. She equates staying with surrender; he knows a secure home can still make room for movement.
Celia Ellison • 63Their mother, who is ready to retire and unwilling to be treated as the house’s permanent source of unpaid labour.

Series progression

  1. 01 / ReturnThe sisters stop treating the guesthouse’s future as a problem somebody else will solve.
  2. 02 / RebalanceBeth asks for care and responsibility to be shared, at home and in love.
  3. 03 / ChooseThey create a sustainable future that gives each sister a different way to belong.

The three books

The direction is set. The books are written after you order.

Cover of A Map of the Days We Missed, book 1
Book 1 of three

A Map of the Days We Missed

They know the way home. Finding their way back to each other is harder.

Mara Ellison has come home for six weeks, two family meetings and absolutely no conversations about Finn Alder. Unfortunately, the ferry captain is helping her mother hand over Saltmere House, which puts him at the breakfast table more often than she would like.

Twelve years ago, Mara left with a job offer and a story about why Finn had let her go. Finn stayed with a very different version. Sorting the guesthouse’s old photographs brings back the easy friendship beneath the hurt, but neither of them can build a future from beautiful memories alone.

As Mara’s career pulls her toward another city and the house needs a decision, she and Finn must ask the questions they avoided the first time. What would it mean to choose each other without making one life smaller? The answer may begin with a map—and a willingness to leave the old route behind.

Story focusSecond chance • returning home • love without abandoning ambition.
Place in the seriesMara and Finn acknowledge their younger selves’ mistakes, then make a workable shared plan instead of relying on nostalgia.
Cover of All the Sundays Left, book 2
Book 2 of three

All the Sundays Left

A quiet friendship becomes the part of the week they wait for.

Beth Ellison can organise a breakfast for twenty, settle an argument over the best bedroom and remember how every guest takes their tea. Since her divorce, she has become rather good at being needed. Wanting something for herself feels less familiar.

Daniel Sayer starts coming to Sunday lunch because his daughter likes the chaos at Saltmere House. He keeps coming because Beth makes him laugh without checking whether he is allowed to be happy yet. Between clearing plates and walking by the water, a friendship grows into something neither of them expected.

But a Sunday is easier than a life. Beth’s family still assumes she will hold everything together, and Daniel must navigate new love without pretending grief has a closing date. To have more than one lovely afternoon a week, they will both have to ask for space—and trust that the people who love them can make it.

Story focusFriends to lovers • midlife renewal • a blended family finding its rhythm.
Place in the seriesThe romance respects Daniel’s late wife and his daughter’s separate feelings. Beth’s happiness includes firmer family boundaries, not simply a new partner.
Cover of The Shape of Staying, book 3
Book 3 of three

The Shape of Staying

She has a ticket out. He has a reason to look again.

Eden Ellison has accepted a nursing post overseas. Before she leaves, she only has to help her sisters finish one last busy season. Then a building survey closes Saltmere House’s upper rooms, and the man delivering the unwelcome news becomes a regular presence in their kitchen.

Oren Hale will not soften his findings to make the family feel better. He will explain the options, listen when Eden challenges him and turn up when he says he will. His steadiness is irritatingly attractive to a woman who has always kept her next departure within reach.

As the sisters decide what the house can become, Eden realises she has confused having choices with always choosing to leave. Oren cannot make the decision for her, and love cannot replace a life she wants. They must discover whether staying can be an adventure—or whether belonging can stretch across an ocean.

Story focusOpposites attract • rootedness and freedom • choosing an adult partnership.
Place in the seriesEden completes a finite overseas placement before choosing a local role on her own terms. The couple’s planned separation is followed by a settled, hopeful reunion.

Cover collection

The Harbour Between Us

Cover of A Map of the Days We Missed
A Map of the Days We Missed
Cover of All the Sundays Left
All the Sundays Left
Cover of The Shape of Staying
The Shape of Staying

The promise beyond book one

Reasons to keep reading

  • One atmospheric home, three emotionally distinct romances.
  • Adult choices about work, family, grief and lasting partnership.
  • A sisterhood arc that rewards reading the full series.

A world with room to grow

The guesthouse can introduce later romances through long-stay guests and local residents. The Ellison sisters remain a welcoming ensemble, with their established relationships allowed to grow rather than repeatedly fall apart.

Series overview

At Saltmere House, the tide comes in, the kettle goes on and there is always room at the table. For the Ellison sisters, coming home is only the beginning. Three coastal romances about second chances, the courage to ask for more and the people who make staying a choice.

What you get with this pack

  • Three completed booksDeveloped from the pack you choose.
  • Editing and human proofreadingFor every manuscript.
  • Three coordinated coversA recognisable identity across the series.
  • Blurbs and Amazon metadataFor all three titles.
  • A+ contentTo showcase your books on their Amazon pages.

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