Athens
A Love Kept in Athens
Two people in one city, and everything they decide not to say out loud.
The Athens Trilogy, first book
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Contemporary romance about arriving late, staying too long, and the people a place gives back to you. All eight are on Kindle Unlimited.
The books
Two series and four standalones. The trilogy is meant to be read in order; everything else can be started anywhere.
Between cities
A Love Left Between Cities
Distance is easy to explain to other people and impossible to live inside.
The Athens Trilogy, second book
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Athens
A Thread Back to Love
Some things do not end. They wait, and they are patient about it.
The Athens Trilogy, third book
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Serifos
Most Likely to End Up Together
Seven friends, a wedding in five days, and an envelope sealed eleven years ago.
The Accidental Greeks, first book
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The French Riviera
A Room Facing the Sun
A surgeon falls out of the sky above a valley and lands in a stranger's careful, unlived house.
A standalone novel
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Hatay, then Boston
He Was Good at Leaving
They meet in a disaster zone over a child neither of them can save alone.
A standalone novel
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Vienna
He Cooks on Sundays
A concert pianist, a children's surgeon, and every Sunday they almost get the timing right.
A standalone novel
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The Oregon coast
The House on Bluff Road
She came back to sell the house. The house had other plans for the summer.
Tidewell Harbor, first book
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One love story told across three books: what distance changes, what memory protects, and what is still being asked for after everything else has gone quiet.
About Olivia
Olivia Etta writes contemporary romance for people who fall for a place as hard as they fall for a person.
Her novels tend to begin at an arrival: a ferry coming into a small harbour, a rescue worker carrying a child out of rubble, a woman walking back into a house she meant to sell. What follows is usually quieter than the opening — long conversations, work done carefully, meals cooked on the same day every week — and the love story is built out of that ordinary attention rather than around it.
She writes in English, reads in several languages, and keeps a list of places she has not finished thinking about.
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