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She’s stranded with a broken heart. He’s the man who knows how to fix both. When Faith Novak’s car dies on the snowy road to Aspen Grove, it feels like the final insult. Her Christmas wedding is off, her ex ran off with her cousin, and all she has left is a gown in the backseat and tears freezing on her cheeks. Then Diesel Kane shows up—a tattooed, grease-stained mechanic with a bad-boy grin and a soft spot he’d die before admitting. With every hotel booked for the holidays, he offers her his apartment above the garage “just for the night.” But one night turns into laughter, ...

She’s stranded in his town. He’s about to make sure she never leaves. Travel nurse Stella Rogers just wanted a quiet December assignment in Aspen Grove, not a fender bender with the local sheriff during the worst snowstorm of the season. But when the roads close and she’s stuck at the station for the holidays, her plans—and her heart—start to change. Sheriff Blake Cordero has sworn off complicated women and Christmas chaos alike. But Stella’s warmth, laughter, and curves have him rethinking every rule he’s made for himself. Between late-night wrapping sessions for the town’s...

When the town’s fire chief shows up for an inspection, she doesn’t expect him to reignite an old flame… After a messy divorce, Lila Morgan is back in Cedar Falls, knee-deep in corn silk and tangled extension cords as she helps her brother prepare the family’s haunted maze. The last thing she needs is Sawyer Grant—her brother’s best friend, first crush, and the man she’s spent a decade trying to forget—walking back into her life in full fire chief uniform. Sawyer has three priorities: protect his town, protect his crew, and never touch the one woman he’s wanted for ten ...

Evie Porter didn’t mean to trespass on Silas Reed’s land—she was just trying to find a missing teen. But when she stumbles into his cabin at dusk, she finds more than a recluse woodsman. She finds a man who looks at her like prey. Silas doesn’t like people in his forest. But Evie is different—she’s soft, stubborn, and sunshine in human form. And when danger follows her into the woods, Silas has no choice but to take her into his protection. She thinks he’s a wild man. But by morning, she’ll realize he’s her man.

Ruby Lane came to Wild River to sign a few papers and get back to her city life. But her inheritance comes with one condition—she has to spend a week on Hollander Ranch. That means dealing with Jace Hollander: a cowboy with a glare sharp enough to cut barbed wire and a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas. When a storm leaves Ruby stranded overnight, Jace takes her in. One cabin. One bed. And a cowboy who doesn’t play games. Ruby wants her city escape. Jace wants her tied to his land—and to his bed. She thinks she’s leaving. He’s already stolen her heart.

She’s baking for the town. He’s burning for her. When Ivy Carter moves to Aspen Grove to save her grandmother’s bakery, the last thing she expects is to set the kitchen—and her life—on fire. One rescue later, she’s in the arms of Fire Captain Cruz Delgado, a gruff, heartbreakingly handsome widower who smells like smoke and safety. Cruz lives for his crew and his work. Feelings are dangerous, and love burns worse than any blaze. But when Ivy starts baking for the firehouse and helping with their charity calendar shoot, the walls he’s built start to melt. She’s shy, sweet, and...

When Freya's car breaks down at 2 AM in the middle of nowhere, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of protective mountain muscle. Ryan Hawthorne is everything she's running from—stable, commanding, and dangerously capable of seeing through her carefully built walls. He's also 38 to her 23, with calloused hands and a voice that makes her shiver every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're safe with me now," he promises when her past threatens to drag her back into darkness. "I protect what's mine." Freya came to Thunder Creek to disappear. She never expected to find sanctuary in ...

When my BMW skids up a gravel mountain road, I don’t expect to end the day stranded in a storm and falling hard for the man I came to destroy. As a high-powered environmental lawyer, I’m used to wielding cease-and-desist orders like weapons. This trip to Colorado was supposed to be quick and bloodless: serve papers to Cruz Construction, shut them down, and catch my flight back to the city. Then I meet Dane Cruz. Six-foot-four of raw muscle, golden skin, and work-roughened hands that know how to build more than just homes. He’s supposed to be the villain in my legal brief, but he sees ...

She came for peace and quiet. He gave her heat she never saw coming. Romance author Angeline Winters needs one thing this December—silence. A snow-covered cabin at Morrison Ranch should be the perfect place to finish her overdue novel and escape the noise of her failed relationship. But when a blizzard hits and she nearly freezes trying to find the cabin, her rescuer isn’t a fantasy cowboy—he’s the real thing. Wyatt Morrison doesn’t have time for stranded city girls or Christmas miracles. He’s got cattle to feed, a ranch to run, and an eight-year-old daughter who just asked ...

Cassie Monroe didn’t come to Wild River looking for love—she came for survival. Between college classes and raising her little boy, the last thing she needs is a distraction. But distraction finds her in the form of Boone Carter: the quiet giant who works with an axe like it’s an extension of his body. Boone swore he’d never love again. But when Cassie shows up at his mill, too stubborn to ask for help, he can’t look away. And when her abusive ex shows up in town, Boone makes one thing clear: Cassie belongs to him now. She came here to work. He’ll show her what it means to be ...

Lorsque ma camionnette prend feu, je ne m'attends pas à être secouru par un homme des montagnes d'un mètre quatre-vingt-dix à la perfection protectrice. Knox Rivera est tout ce que je ne suis pas : enraciné, stable, parfaitement à l'aise dans le monde de sa petite ville. Il a également quinze ans de plus que moi, des épaules larges qui remplissent les portes et des yeux noisette qui voient à travers les murs que j'ai soigneusement construits. « Tu restes avec moi », grogne-t-il quand je n'ai nulle part où aller. « Je ne laisserai rien t'arriver ». Il devrait m'intimider. Au ...

Four autumn nights. Four small-town love stories. One season where hearts ignite as fast as the falling leaves. In Cedar Falls, Montana, love burns hotter than a bonfire and lingers longer than the harvest moon. From a haunted corn maze and a pumpkin carver’s cabin, to a storm-stranded cranberry bog and a hayride gone deliciously wrong, four women find themselves face-to-face with the men they were never meant to forget. These are the kind of heroes who show up when the nights get cold—protective, possessive, and utterly undone by the women who change everything. And whether it starts ...

When a haunted hayride introduces her to the wrong kind of danger, she doesn’t expect it to feel exactly right… Romance author Maren Cole came to Cedar Falls, Montana for research—not romance. One hayride with the town’s notorious Headless Horseman is supposed to give her the “authentic mountain man” material her editor demands. Instead, it gives her Hank: a broad-shouldered mechanic with a voice made for sin, a stare that pins her in place, and a possessive streak that makes her question everything she thought she wanted. Hank never chases women. Until Maren. From the second ...

When Harper Bolton sets out on her first solo vacation in the Colorado wilderness, she expects easy trails and quiet sunsets—not getting lost on an abandoned mining track with a storm rolling in. By the time she realizes she’s in over her head, she’s one misstep away from disaster. Enter Jaxon Vale, a rugged wilderness guide who’s spent years keeping strangers alive in these mountains while quietly wrestling with ghosts of his own. Saving Harper from the cliff edge should have been routine. Offering her shelter in his emergency cabin for the night should have been temporary. But one...

When Autumn Bailey blows back into Pine Ridge, she’s nothing like the polished beauty queen Sheriff Wade Murphy remembers from high school. She’s tear-streaked, wrinkled-dressed, and speeding down the mountain like she’s running from more than a traffic ticket. Wade’s spent years keeping order in their small Colorado town, but seeing his first love broken and lost lights up every protective instinct he has. Offering her a spare room at his cabin should be temporary—a safe place to catch her breath while she fixes up her late grandmother’s crumbling Victorian. But the more ...

June Maddox has dreamed of Caleb Price since she was old enough to notice men. He’s older, gruffer, and completely off-limits. But when she comes to his farm to help with the harvest, Caleb notices her in a way he never has before. One look turns into one touch. One touch turns into one filthy night that ruins her innocence. June swore she was just helping with the crops. But Caleb’s not letting her walk away untouched—or unmarried.

When a grumpy mountain man agrees to supply her festival, she doesn’t expect him to claim more than her pumpkins… Event planner Tessa Langley is desperate - her business, her future, and her pride are all riding on the Cedar Falls Harvest Festival. There’s just one problem: the only pumpkin farmer within a hundred miles is a brooding, broad-shouldered recluse who hates crowds… and city girls. Brody Kane has three rules: no festivals, no complications, and no getting close to anyone who can break his heart. Tessa is a walking violation of all three. But her fire, curves, and stubborn...

When a reclusive woodcarver agrees to make her a pumpkin, she doesn’t expect him to carve his way into her life… Kindergarten teacher Ivy Dawson just wants something special for her classroom—one perfect jack-o’-lantern to make her kids believe in magic. But the only man who can create it is the town’s most antisocial recluse: Eli Granger, a gruff, broad-shouldered woodworker who lives deep in the mountains and doesn’t take visitors. Eli has spent years avoiding people—and years secretly carving Ivy’s face into wood. When she shows up at his door, sunshine-bright and full of...

When a storm strands her in the wrong man’s cabin, she doesn’t expect it to feel exactly right… Environmental scientist Dr. Grace Vance came to the Montana wetlands to do a job: evaluate complaints, file her report, and leave. Falling for a rugged cranberry farmer with storm-dark eyes was never in the plan. But from the moment Callum Ward steps out of his weathered shed - broad-shouldered, flannel-clad, and sinfully confident - Grace feels something she can’t explain. Something dangerous. Something inevitable. Callum has lived alone on his bog for eight years, content to let the ...

He’s grumpy, she’s on the run—and this Christmas, they just might save each other. Event planner Noelle Parker wasn’t planning to crash her car—or her life—on the snowy roads outside Aspen Grove. But when her ex starts hunting her down, the only man standing between her and danger is a broad-shouldered deputy with a beard as rough as his voice. Deputy Hank Brennan stopped believing in Christmas miracles the day he buried his wife. Playing Santa’s helper at the town festival is just a way to keep his late mother’s tradition alive—until Noelle shows up, trembling and ...