A Haven on the Bay

A Haven on the Bay is the third novel in Nicole Ellis's Willa Bay series, published in 2020.

Meg Briggs is finally close to the restaurant she has been imagining — an old barn on the inn's grounds, if she can get it converted — and in the middle of the work she turns up a journal that belonged to someone else's life at Willa Bay.

Taylor, a chef at the lodge, is thinking about leaving now that the people she liked working with have gone. Tia, an event coordinator, is trying to hold on to her independence against a family that doubts she can manage it after a tragedy.

Samantha is starting over with a changed outlook, and Debbie is balancing her family against her own life until news arrives that she cannot balance around.

The series' pattern holds: several viewpoints, the inn at the centre, and a clean, gentle register.