A Life Beside Yours – Bellweather Bay series, Book 1

A LIFE BESIDE YOURS

The Lives We Choose Series — Book 1

A six-month assignment by the sea was supposed to be just another story. Then Eliza Mercer met the one man who could make leaving feel impossible.

Documentary director Eliza Mercer arrives in Bellweather Bay, Cornwall, to spend six months filming The Harbour We Inherit, a documentary exploring the redevelopment of the town’s working harbour. Accustomed to building her life around the next assignment, Eliza expects professional resistance. She does not expect Rowan Vale.

Rowan, a restoration architect with deep roots in Bellweather Bay, sees what polished redevelopment plans can erase: working access, local history, and the lives built around the harbour. When Eliza’s camera and Rowan’s architectural work draw them into the same conflict, professional friction becomes an uneasy collaboration — and then something neither of them planned.

But falling in love is simpler than deciding what comes after.

Eliza’s career still points beyond Bellweather Bay. Rowan’s responsibilities keep him rooted there. And as questions of truth, loyalty, consent and belonging sharpen around the harbour, both must decide whether love can ask them to change without asking either of them to disappear.

A Life Beside Yours is the first novel in The Lives We Choose, an emotional contemporary romance series about love, difficult choices, sacrifice, belonging and the lives we choose to build beside the people we love.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

♥ Slow-burn romance

♥ Professional rivals to lovers

♥ Forced collaboration

♥ A beautiful Cornish coastal setting

♥ Career versus belonging

♥ Emotionally mature romance

♥ Closed-door romance

♥ A hopeful happily-ever-after

Series: The Lives We Choose

Book: 1

Author: Stellah Ulriksen