Welcome to Birch Point

Where the river meets the sea

A clean, later-in-life romance series set in small-town coastal Maine, where an old inn at the water's edge gives one woman a love triangle she never asked for.

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The Heart of Birch Point, Book One in the Birch Point Inn Series, by Emerson Brookes

You've built the most beautiful life anyone could imagine, Ellen... And you have managed to corner yourself alone inside it. And now you are feeling every pound of what you carry by yourself.

— The Heart of Birch Point
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Opening Day at Birch Point, the free Birch Point Inn Series prequel novella

Opening Day at Birch Point

Ellen Van Doren has never let a man help at the inn. Today, hers showed up six hours early to prove her wrong — and she has four hours to get her lobby ready for the travel writer who could make Birch Point Inn famous for years to come.

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The Heart of Birch Point, a clean later-in-life romance novel — Book One cover
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The Heart of Birch Point

Finding a soulmate was never on Ellen Van Doren's to-do list. Now there are two, and neither one will take the hint. The Heart of Birch Point is a clean, later-in-life romance and the first book in the series: one woman fighting to save four generations of family legacy, and the two very different men who won't let her fight alone.

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The Setting

Where two waters meet

Birch Point sits where the Moskwasek River empties into the open bay — a fictional town on the coast of Knox County, Maine, with the inn perched right on the point between them.

Every book in the series returns to this same stretch of water: the dock, the marsh grass, the tide moving in and out with the story.

Knox County, Maine
Aerial view of Birch Point Inn, a coastal Maine inn where the river meets the ocean bay
Birch Point Inn at sunset, front view with wraparound porch
The Author

Written by Emerson Brookes

Emerson Brookes writes clean, later-in-life romance set in small-town coastal Maine, where every book is an invitation to slow down, sit on the porch, and fall in love with a place as much as its people.

The Birch Point Inn Series follows Ellen Van Doren's fight to protect four generations of family legacy — and the small town, sharp wit, and slow-burn romance that carry her through it, one sunset at a time.

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