Wilderness Comedy

She’s a city girl doing it for the ‘Gram. He’s a mountain man who just wants to be left alone. In the Colorado wilderness, the only thing higher than the altitude is the tension. Samantha Li is a professional influencer on the verge of her big break. All she has to do is travel to a five-star resort in Aster Park, Colorado, and sell the "authentic luxury" experience to her followers. There’s just one problem: Samantha is terrified of nature, her hiking boots are pristine, and she just spit scalding hot cappuccino all over her guide. Noah Barrett hates LuxeLife Resorts. He hates what...

Returning to Alaska was never part of the plan, but I can’t walk away when my gran’s beloved bed and breakfast is crumbling before my eyes. Sticking around definitely has NOTHING to do with the smoking hot firefighter renting my parents’ guesthouse. (Especially not when I get to watch him paint shirtless). He’s got a hard candy shell, but I’m determined to tease him until I crack it. Pretty soon he’s chasing me through the hotel and straddling me on a bed to get his revenge… Not that it leads anywhere good, because West has the self-control of a monk. Sigh. He says it’s ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Named one of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year One of...

Barrett Leonard came to Dalton with a strategy deck, a polished tourism plan, and the dangerous belief that wildlife could be professionally positioned. Gunnar Lockwood knows better. As Dalton’s wilderness guide, Gunnar has one firm rule: moose are not scheduled talent. But when Barrett’s carefully worded launch comments become a regional promise of daily moose sightings, Dalton’s new Moose Watch Initiative turns into a public relations disaster with binoculars. Now Barrett and Gunnar must work together to save the launch, calm the town, manage tourists, protect the trails, and ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers a fun romantic comedy about a woman writing under a male pseudonym and the man she hires to play the role in public. Daphne McFadden already knows that as a female author, the cards are stacked against her. Now she knows just how...

Dalton has a new plan to lure spring tourists: dawn moose walks and sunset acoustic sets, bundled into one perfectly chaotic fundraiser weekend. Nathan Pierce is brought in to run the music side—permits, schedules, contracts, and a lineup that’s supposed to prove he belongs in a town that treats planning like a casual suggestion. He’s precise, ambitious, and running on caffeine and control. Cole Barton is Dalton’s wilderness guide and resident “moose whisperer”—all flannel, calm authority, and the kind of steady competence that makes people accidentally tell the truth. He ...

Miles Avery has a spreadsheet for everything—town budgets, emergency supplies, and the exact number of ways Dalton can turn a “fun weekend” into a liability. So when Dalton announces Whitewater for a Cause—a summer rafting fundraiser paired with a trendy riverside wellness retreat—Miles does what he always does in a crisis: opens a new tab and tries not to scream. The only problem? Miles isn’t just organizing. He’s co-leading the chaos. Enter Rowan “Ro” Delgado: a soft-spoken wilderness medic with steady hands, sharp instincts, and a calm that makes Miles’s nervous ...

No Wi-Fi. No excuses. No hiding. When Dalton launches an off-grid adventure weekend to prove the town can do “rugged” tourism without anyone crying (crying is fine), anxious new-to-town logistics guy Kieran Ward gets voluntold into running schedules, waivers, and contingency plans for people who think “planning” is optional. His co-lead is Beck Barton—wilderness instructor, search-and-rescue volunteer, and the calmest man Kieran has ever met… which is deeply inconvenient, because Beck keeps clocking Kieran’s panic as kind of adorable. Between a no-phones challenge, fire-...

A plague has devastated the land. Bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night. A loose band of survivors fight for their lives. Can they make it through? And what will become of them if they do?

Shattered by the discovery of her husband's affair, Liv knows they need to leave the chaos of New York to save their marriage. Maybe the road trip they'd always planned, exploring America's national parks - just the two of them - would help heal the wounds.

A Manhattan divorce attorney on the run from her own scandal. A charter pilot who built a fleet from one plane and needs a fake fiancée by tomorrow. A matchmaker who sees right through both of them. Samantha Mitchell's legal career just imploded. She makes one reckless decision: escape to Alaska through a matchmaking service that promises adventure for sophisticated women. She plans a brief image rehab in the wilderness. She does not plan on Liam O'Connor. Liam built his charter aviation business from one plane to fourteen. He needs a fiancée to convince conservative corporate clients ...

In the winter of 1966, Katherine Reid moves to an isolated cabin deep in Georgia's Appalachian Mountains. There, with little more than a sleeping bag, a tin plate, and a loaded gun, she plans to spend her time in peaceful solitude. But one day Katherine realizes the woods are not empty, and she is not alone. Someone else is near, observing her every move.

Having earned his writing chops as an award-winning author of short fiction, Lance Weller delivers an unforgettable novel set in post-Civil War America. Abel Truman, maimed at the Battle of the Wilderness and beset with old age, lives on the rugged coast of Washington State. Resolving to attend to personal matters set in motion long ago, Truman and his be-loved dog embark on a harrowing journey over the treacherous Olympic Mountains - and along the way experience horrors all too reminiscent of war.

The explosive story of the Republican Party's intensely dramatic and fractious efforts to find its way back to unity and national dominance. After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600...

Brimming with heart and heat, Rules for Second Chances explores the hardest relationship question of all: can true love happen twice...with the same person? Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want. But she’s always been labeled different from everyone else in the boisterous world...

It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's.

Seventeen-year-old Cody Sterling doesn’t believe he’s crazy. He sees creatures no one else can—spectrals made of light and dark energies. He knows they’re real because he watched one kill his father. Ever since, that same presence has haunted him. The doctors call it trauma. Cody knows better. He calls it Mr. Shadow. After a violent incident at school and a devastating betrayal at home, Cody is sent to New Beginnings, a wilderness therapy program deep in Idaho’s remote Payette National Forest.

Will Epstein had it all - playboy good looks, wealth and prestige, and a gorgeous fiance to costar with him on a reality television show. But that was years ago, before he was abandoned at the altar on national television. In the aftermath, Will's world crumbled, leaving him humiliated and lost. Andre Rivera married his first love and lived a dream life until tragedy stepped in. His wife's sudden death left him devastated and struggling to build a life for his young daughter. Being a pilot offers Andre a sense of freedom from Lavender Shores, but he feels unable move forward.

Think you know survival? Think again. Tips from the Trail: The Worst Survival Advice You’ll Ever Hear flips traditional survival guides on their head with hilariously bad advice you should absolutely never follow. From clueless wilderness decisions to laugh-out-loud disasters, this book is packed with ridiculous scenarios that highlight what not to do when things go wrong. Perfect for fans of outdoor humor, parody survival guides, and anyone who enjoys a good laugh, this book delivers entertainment with a twist of irony. Whether you’re a seasoned adventurer or someone who can’t tell ...

When a 17-year-old track star turns up mangled and dead on the switchback road by the Crescent Hotel, his poker crew grows suspicious of one another. Ebur, a retired cowboy, finds himself in the middle of a once-trustworthy group who all knew and loved Brady. Or did they? And can he trust them if they think he killed the boy? Covering the broad swatch of lifestyles and struggles in off-peak Eureka Springs, Wilderness asks hard questions about retired men and those who try to tame them.