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. It all starts with a failing bookshop and the grump next door.
- Guaranteed HEA
- Slow burn
- Found family
- Pre-orders open
The Reading Order
Three books, one small town.
Begin with Still Waters and read them in order. A pre-order lands on your Kindle the morning it releases. Heron Creek rewards the ones who stay.
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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
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
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 November 4, 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 Newsletter
Heron Creek, off the page.
The town keeps going between chapters. Subscribers get the bonus scenes, and word the day a new book is out.
- Bonus scenes from between the chapters
- News the day a new Heron Creek book is out
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.