Almond Bay

About the Almond Bay series

Almond Bay is a small-town romance series set in a fictional coastal California town, following the Rowley siblings as each finds an unlikely match against a backdrop of family business, old grudges, and hometown gossip. The Way I Hate Him opens with an enemies-to-lovers setup between two people bound by a shared history; The Reason I Married Him complicates a marriage-of-convenience premise with real feelings neither sibling expected; The Path to Loving Him closes the trilogy with the last Rowley finding their own happy ending.

Compared to Meghan Quinn's hockey and workplace romcoms, Almond Bay leans further into small-town, family-saga romance, closer in register to her Cane Brothers billionaire-family series, with a returning cast of siblings, parents, and townsfolk giving later books more emotional weight as the reader already knows the family. The coastal small-town setting gives the series a cozier, slower-paced feel than her sports romances, even as Quinn keeps her signature banter and heat intact.

The series also spun off a connected trilogy, Bridesmaid for Hire, featuring Almond Bay's wedding-planning business and overlapping side characters, for readers who want to stay in the same town and community once the Rowley siblings' stories are done.

How to read this series

Publication order: The Way I Hate Him, The Reason I Married Him, The Path to Loving Him. Each book follows a different Rowley sibling with its own complete romance, so you can technically start anywhere, but reading in order is recommended since siblings and the wider Almond Bay cast recur across all three books and family history builds cumulatively. Once you finish the trilogy, the spin-off Bridesmaid for Hire series continues in the same town with overlapping side characters.