Small Town

A Steamy Romance Series by Violet Lynn Aster

Welcome to the lives and loves of the young people of Bayswater — a small town on the East Coast of Canada. Fans of Virgin River, Lucy Score, K.A. Tucker, and The Gilmore Girls, will enjoy this medium-steam romance series about found-families facing grief and loss in order to find forgiveness, healing, and home. In Bayswater, your neighbors know everything about you, every holiday is celebrated with gusto, and friendships last a lifetime. The Bayswater series includes three novels and three novellas, in ideal-reading-order below.


Time After Time

Time After Time is a full-length Romance. Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend, Second Chance, Small Town, Haunted Past.

Lara Jacobs is determined to live alone with her cat and never write again. The guilt she holds onto over the loss of her best friend now rules her life. Mac Archer has known Lara forever. As teens, Lara held the power to bring Mac to his knees, but as adults, they’ve become strangers. Still, he clings to the hope of a second chance. Eventually, Lara must face the truth about the past and make a heart-wrenching choice: Is the chance of forgiveness worth the risk of pain, or should she run away from Bayswater forever?


Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies is a short/novella Romance. Tropes: Best Friend’s Brother, Friends to Lovers, Small Town vs. Big City.

Go back to where the Bayswater series began… Eva is adrift. Once a small-pond star, in the big city she’s a nobody — lonely and dull. On a trip home, she reconnects with Nolan, her best friend’s little brother. Nolan has always been there for her and now she’s pretty sure she can’t live without him, but nothing’s working out, not in business, nor in matters of the heart. Can Eva reconcile her big city dreams with the fact that Bayswater is where she’s meant to be before she loses Nolan for good?


Her City Dreams

Her City Dreams is a short/novella Romance. Tropes: Small Town, Celebrity/Royal, Forced Proximity.

 Rylee Starr no longer feels at home in the small town of Bayswater, so she packs up one red suitcase and leaves for the city — alone. The desk job she’d hoped for is interrupted when she’s retasked to watch over reality TV villain and royal, Lord Rafe Lane of Worcester as he nurses a very public broken heart. Will Rylee’s big city dreams get derailed by her new attraction to this dark star, or will she be able to find herself and find love with a notorious bad boy?


Paper-Thin Hearts

Paper-Thin Heart is a full-length Romance. Tropes: Second Chance, Small Town, Curvy Heroine, Miscommunication.

Maren Archer was an ordinary girl in Bayswater when she fell in love with her childhood best-friend, Jake. Until she overheard him say something that sent her running…

Now, thirty-two and a successful social media advertiser in the city, Maren runs her department with compassion, intensity, and a secret: her company’s a size-inclusive fraud! When someone threatens to expose her, Maren escapes to her hometown for a break. She reconnects with Jake, but will she be able to be honest with him? Will Maren come clean to Jake, her fans, or even herself?


Open Your Heart

Open Your Heart is a short/novella Romance. Tropes: Queer, Lesbian, Sapphic, Small Town, Age-Gap.

After finalizing her divorce from her college sweetheart, Samantha is alone for the first time in her life, but she is determined to start fresh in Bayswater, even if she is resigned to loneliness. When Órla, a famous photographer arrives, Sam falls hard for the enigmatic newcomer, but the small-town rumor mill plagues them both. What really drove Órla away from her plush city life? Can this pair make it work, despite the odds?


All My Heart

All My Heart is a short/novella Romance. Tropes: Holiday, Small-Town, Friends to Lovers, Single Dad, Family Secrets, Secret Millionaire.

Jane and Chet — long-time best friends — both have dreams to chase and decisions to make. He’s a single dad with business dreams that are threatened by his past. She’s given up on romance and is blind to how much she cares for him, but not to how much she cares for his daughter. Can Jane and Chet overcome their troubled pasts to forge a family out of love?


The Bayswater Series Omnibus

The Bayswater Series is an omnibus or box set featuring every book in this Small-Town Romance series in one convenient package.

Tropes: Small Town, Haunted Past, Brother’s Best Friend, Neighbors-to-Lovers, Second Chance, Lost Memories, Friends-to-Lovers, Celebrity-Royal, Forced Proximity, Curvy Heroine, FF Love, Love After Divorce, Age-Gap, Holiday, Miscommunication, Retelling, Boss, Secret Billionaire (well, Millionaire!) and more.