Tropes you love - Ex-Military Damaged Mountain Man, Single Mom, Curvy City Girl, Grumpy Sunshine

When city girl meets mountain man, sparks fly—and so does the plumbing.

Single mom Halle Fox needs two peace and quiet to finish her romance novel, and a fresh start for her and her seven-year-old daughter, Izzy. A rustic cabin in Wild Canyon, Wyoming seems perfect—until the kitchen tap explodes on day one.

Enter Byron six-foot-four of tattooed, brooding ex-Marine who owns the cabin and looks like he walked straight out of one of Halle's manuscripts. He's gruff, damaged, and determined to keep his distance. But Izzy's gap-toothed charm and Halle's stubborn optimism start cracking his carefully built walls.

As Byron repairs the cabin, something else gets fixed too—the parts of himself he thought were broken beyond repair. But when he discovers Halle's current book features a hero suspiciously similar to him, old wounds reopen. Is he just research material, or could this city girl and her sunshine kid be exactly what his dark, lonely world needs?

In the shadow of Wyoming's mountains, two damaged hearts must play it safe, or risk everything for a love worth writing about.

A steamy quick read romance that can be read as a standalone, or as part of the series.