Cate Ashwood

Cate Ashwood writes contemporary romance shaped by friendship, home, and community. Hope Cove gives her a recurring Maine setting, with Wholehearted as the sequence’s second novel. In The Storm Before the Calm, published by Dreamspinner Press in 2015, Charlie leaves his small town for a New York dance programme, where he meets instructor Max. Thirty Things follows longtime friends Finn and Nate on a road trip built around a list; Dreamspinner also published it that year. All He Ever Needed followed as a standalone novel in 2018. Moving between the familiarity of Hope Cove and self-contained journeys, Ashwood returns to the ways travel and friendship can lead characters toward a sense of home.