TWO COUPLES · ONE BELOVED VILLAGE
The Willowmere series
Two tender romances. Two ways of building a life together.
Lila & Rowan
A Meticulous Botanist & a Reliable Woodworker
The Woodsman of Willowmere
“I love you, Lila, and I have imagined a life with you so often that I hardly know how to describe the cottage without imagining you in it.”
Lila Brooks is happiest among her plants and books, following the questions that capture her attention and making a life on her own terms. A neurodivergent-coded heroine, Lila notices the world in her own way and knows how exhausting it can be when others expect her to be someone she is not.
Rowan Thatcher, a woodsman with capable hands and a patient heart, sees the woman she is—and comes to love her for it.
From the first stirrings of affection to the joys and challenges of building a life together, their story unfolds among cottage gardens, woodland paths, and the close-knit community they call home. As seasons change, Lila and Rowan discover that love is found not only in grand gestures, but in listening, understanding, and choosing each other every day.
Return to Willowmere for a tender romance filled with warmth, gentle humor, and the promise of a place to belong.
Bea & Gideon
A CREATIVE BAKER AND A STEADFAST STONEMASON
The Stonemason of Willowmere
Book 1 is available now. The Stonemason series will include four books. Only The Stonemason’s Sweetheart is currently available; Books 2–4 are forthcoming.
“I want you, Bea. I have been learning how much that means since the evening we met.”
The Stonemason’s Sweetheart
A Willowmere Romance by Damara Rose
Gideon Moss has a good trade, strong hands, and every intention of finding a wife. Then Bea Thorm arrives at Willowmere’s Spring Dance in a gloriously unconventional dress, and finding someone to marry suddenly becomes much less interesting than persuading this particular woman to dance with him again.
One breathtaking kiss later, he is certain.
Bea wishes certainty came so easily.
Starting over in her uncle’s bakery, she has plans for extraordinary pastries, beautiful dresses, and a life she can call her own. She hadn’t planned on a handsome stonemason who makes her laugh, welcomes her affection, and seems entirely delighted by her. But after arriving for a wedding her intended never attended, trusting another man’s promises feels dangerously like inviting the same heartbreak twice.
Gideon knows how to build something that will last. Learning what makes Bea feel safe will require more than a sound cottage and wholehearted declarations. And Bea must decide whether she can let herself be loved without treating every moment of uncertainty as the beginning of goodbye.
Set among honey cakes, flowering lanes, and warmly meddlesome neighbors, The Stonemason’s Sweetheart is a tender, sensual romance celebrating Black love, a neurodivergent heroine’s exuberant creativity, and the courage of letting someone truly know you.
- Book 1The Stonemason’s Sweetheart Available now ↗
- Book 2The Stonemason’s Crown Forthcoming ↗
- Book 3Title to be announced Forthcoming
- Book 4Title to be announced Forthcoming