Olivia Sloane
Cozy contemporary romance set in the Willamette Valley · slow-burn, low-spice, closed-door, with the wine-country town doing as much work as the couple.
About Olivia Sloane
Olivia Sloane writes contemporary romance about people in their thirties who already know who they are. Her heroines are forensic accountants, vineyard managers, harvest-season interlopers · women who notice things other people miss and who are not in a hurry. Her heroes are slow-to-trust, slow-to-speak, and absolutely paying attention.
The setting is Oregon's Willamette Valley · a real place with real rain, real fog, and a real culture around small-batch winemaking. Olivia's town of Renaud Falls reappears across every book, and characters from one novel show up at the tasting room in the next. The recurring family-owned vineyard at the center of the series, Renaud Family Cellars, is fictional · the loyalty, late nights, and harvest exhaustion are not.
Olivia's books are low-spice closed-door · the romance is built in long conversations, near-misses, and the moment one of them finally stops pretending. If you read Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, or Susan Mallery for the town as much as the couple, you're in the right room.
Series and books
The Renaud Falls series is six standalone novels set in the same Willamette Valley town, anchored by Renaud Family Cellars. Each book follows a different couple · a forensic accountant returning to handle her grandmother's estate, a vineyard manager whose first love comes back as the new restaurant owner across the square, a single dad trying to keep the family Christmas tree farm out of a developer's hands, and three more arriving on a roughly seasonal release cadence.
Read in publication order or jump in anywhere · each book closes its own arc and full HEA. Side characters from previous books recur as friends, neighbors, and rivals, so you build a richer Renaud Falls every novel without needing to.