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He's twice my size and looks at me like I'm made of glass. I came to Cold Creek to audit the lumber mill's books. I didn't expect the owner to show up at my cabin in a blizzard, take one look at me, and announce I was staying with him. Holt Jennings is enormous. Bearded. Quiet. His hands could crush me, but he touches me like I'm precious. When I ask why he's still single, he looks away and says, "Never found anyone who wanted to be held by hands like these." I want to be held by those hands. I want to be held down. I want to show him that everything about him is exactly what I've been ...

He saved my life. Now he won't let me go. ER nurse Sloane Winters is running for her life when she crashes in the mountains, bleeding from a bullet wound. She begs the massive stranger who finds her not to take her to a hospital—they'll kill her there. So ex-Special Forces medic Cade Wolfe does the only thing his training allows: he kidnaps her. She wakes up three days later, stitched up and handcuffed to his bed. Cade knows she's in danger. Hit teams are searching the mountain roads, and she's too weak to run. So he keeps her—changing her bandages, feeding her, protecting her—even ...

He told me to leave the mountain. I didn't listen. The ranger warned me that a storm was coming. I needed one more shot, and then I'd go. But the blizzard hit fast, and now I'm trapped in his remote station with a man who's equal parts frustrated and fascinating. Wes Hartley doesn't waste words. He just looks at me with those sad eyes and says, "You could have died out there." I know. I know I was reckless. But when he wraps a blanket around my shoulders and pulls me against his chest "for warmth," I stop feeling sorry and start feeling something else entirely. Four days. One ranger station...

He's supposed to be dead. Instead, he's keeping me captive in paradise. Wildlife biologist Gemma Pierce discovers billionaire tech CEO Thorne Ashford bleeding in the wilderness—except the world thinks he died eighteen months ago. When she saves his life, he makes her an offer she's too broke to refuse: stay the winter in his hidden bunker, and he'll pay her more than her failed research grant. Thorne can't let her leave. Not when assassins are still hunting him. Not when she's the first real thing in his world of lies. Not when her curves and awkward brilliance have become his obsession. ...

I got lost in the mountains. He found me. One wrong turn. That's all it took. Now my car is buried in snow, my phone is dead, and the only shelter for miles belongs to a growling giant who looks at me like I'm the first woman he's seen in years. Boone Callahan doesn't do company. Doesn't do conversation. Doesn't do soft. But when he carries me through the blizzard and locks us inside his cabin, something shifts. His hands are rough. His voice is gruff. And the way he watches me peel off my wet clothes makes me forget I'm supposed to be scared. Three days until the roads clear. One bed. And ...

When city girl, Brielle’s, car crashes during a Montana blizzard, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of pure masculine mountain man. Dr. Declan Morrison is everything she's not—rugged, confident, and completely at home in the wilderness. He's also 38 to her 26, with gentle hands and an intensity that makes her heart race every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're mine now," he growls against her ear when the storm traps them together in his cozy cabin. "I'm not letting anything happen to you." Brielle came to Montana to scout corporate retreat locations. She never expected to...

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 my van goes up in flames, I don't expect to be rescued by six feet of protective mountain man perfection. Knox Rivera is everything I'm not - rooted, stable, completely comfortable in his small-town world. He's also fifteen years older than me, with broad shoulders that fill doorways and hazel eyes that see straight through my carefully constructed walls. "You're staying with me," he growls when I have nowhere else to go. "I'm not letting anything happen to you." He should intimidate me. Instead, he makes me feel safer than I ever have in my life. I came to Pine Ridge to rebuild my ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four rugged men. One untamed mountain town. And four women who never meant to fall for the wild. From lost hikers and desperate single moms to long-held crushes and curious outsiders, four women arrive in Wild River thinking they can pass through untouched. They’re wrong. Because the mountain men who live here don’t do casual, and once they decide a woman belongs with them, they don’t let go. These are the kind of heroes who keep watch through the night, step in without being asked, and protect what’s theirs. Gruff, possessive, and deeply grounded, they fall hard and love harder. ...

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 ...

Four ruthless mountain men. Four women running from danger. And one remote wilderness where captivity feels a lot like devotion. In the Heartland Heroes Collection, survival is never simple, and protection comes with a price. A tech billionaire presumed dead hides in a fortified bunker. A former Special Forces medic refuses to release the woman he saved. A reclusive hunter stalks the criminals preying on his land. A scarred rancher steals women from the horrors chasing them. Each heroine arrives in the mountains hunted, broken, or desperate. Each hero steps in without asking permission. ...

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 ...

I came to his ranch to escape my life. He's decided I'm never leaving. Burned out and desperate for peace, I rent a cabin on a Montana cattle ranch. I'm not looking for anything but silence and sleep. I'm definitely not looking for the gruff, silver-templed rancher who keeps showing up at my door with firewood I didn't ask for and that intense look in his eyes. Colton Slade hasn't let anyone close in five years. But when a storm kills my power, he carries me to his house like I weigh nothing and tells me I'm staying. Not asks. Tells. He's grumpy. Possessive. Looks at my curves like I'm the ...

He steals women from danger. He's never wanted to keep one before. Wren Blackwell escaped a trafficking ring three weeks ago and has been living in her car, terrified they'll find her. When horse rancher Flint Everett discovers her starving in the woods, he doesn't ask permission—he takes her. Carries her home. Locks the doors. Refuses to let her leave until she's healed. She's a prisoner again. Except this cage has soft beds, hot meals, and a scarred giant who tends her wounds with devastating gentleness. Flint has been rescuing tr*fficked women for fifteen years—ever since he lost his...

I'm being hunted. But the most dangerous predator just claimed me as his. Investigative journalist Piper Thornton went undercover to expose an illegal hunting ring—and walked straight into a trap. Now she's running through the mountains with killers on her trail, and the man tracking her through his rifle scope isn't who she thinks. Boone Savage stopped guiding trophy hunters years ago, sickened by the cruelty. Now he hunts the hunters—tracking poachers across his private reserve, documenting their crimes. When he realizes the blonde running through his forest is prey, not predator, ...

He's five years younger, way too charming, and absolutely not part of my plan. My car broke down on a dirt road in Montana. The cowboy who towed me in has dimples, a wicked grin, and no intention of letting me leave. Jake Slade is the definition of trouble — young, gorgeous, and he flirts like breathing. I'm older, freshly out of a broken engagement, and smarter than this. One night, I tell myself. Until the car's fixed. But he keeps making me laugh. Keeps looking at me like I'm art. And when I try to call him a fling, he backs me against the barn wall and says, "I've never been serious ...

Quando un giro di fieno stregato le fa conoscere il tipo di pericolo sbagliato, non si aspetta che sia esattamente quello giusto... L'autrice di romanzi rosa Maren Cole è venuta a Cedar Falls, nel Montana, per fare ricerca, non per fare del romanticismo. Un giro sul fieno con il famigerato Cavaliere senza testa della città dovrebbe fornirle il materiale da “autentico uomo di montagna” richiesto dal suo editore. Invece, le ha dato Hank: un meccanico dalle spalle larghe con una voce fatta per il peccato, uno sguardo che la blocca e una vena possessiva che le fa mettere in discussione ...

His daughter stole my heart first. Then her daddy came to claim it. I took the job as ranch cook to escape my past. I wasn't expecting a gruff, silent foreman with sad eyes — or his seven-year-old daughter who keeps sneaking into my kitchen to help bake cookies. Mason Cleary doesn't talk much. But he watches me like I'm something precious. And when my ex shows up demanding I come back, Mason steps between us, all six-foot-five of him, and says two words: "She's mine." I came here to start over. I didn't expect to find a family waiting for me. Tropes: Single Dad • Grumpy Sunshine • ...