❄️ Forced Proximity Romance

Tessa Reyes works the night desk at the Pinecrest Motor Lodge—twelve rooms, a coffee pot that burns everything, and a mountain nobody in Silver Hollow will hike after dark. At 3 a.m. on the first night of the October moon, a man walks in bleeding through his shirt and asks for a room with no windows facing the ridge. Everyone knows the Marricks own the mountain. Nobody says out loud what else they are. Cade Marrick is the alpha of the Blackridge pack, and the scent the rogue came down the ridge hunting tonight was hers. Pack law says an alpha cannot bind himself to a human without giving up the mountain. He decides in the first hour to protect her without telling her why. She decides in the first hour that a man who tips forty dollars on a fifty-dollar room and won't let a doctor near him is trouble she can't afford—and can't stop looking at. One lunar month. A town that keeps its secrets. A mate bond neither of them asked for. Steamy, never explicit; the door closes.

June Callahan is the new children's librarian in Harbor Point, Oregon, hired to save a branch the county wants to close. She talks to strangers in line, names the spider plants, and has never once been able to leave a sad person alone. Her first program is a fire-safety story hour, and Station Nine sends the one man who least wants to be there: Lieutenant Gray Donnelly, who lost a probationary firefighter two years ago and has been a locked door to everyone since. He answers the children in single syllables and leaves. She sends a thank-you card to the station. Then another. Then she starts bringing the crew books she thinks they'd like. Gray tells her to stop. She does not stop. When the only apartment in town she can afford turns out to be above the garage of the house he's slowly rebuilding—for a reason he won't say—the town, the crew, and a county board vote all start closing in. Grumpy meets sunshine on the Oregon coast. Steamy, never explicit; the door closes.

After a passionate one-night stand in London, Charlotte kept their son a secret—until the ruthless billionaire CEO walks into her hotel boardroom and discovers he's a father.

An event planner agrees to coordinate a literary summit for a reclusive billionaire author in the Colorado mountains—but when a blizzard traps them together, professional boundaries melt faster than the snow.

She spent ten years saving her family's vineyard — then lost it to the corporate raider who bought up the debt. He came to liquidate the land and move on to the next deal. But the estate can't be sold until the season's harvest is in, so he keeps her on to bring it home: one last crush, and then he sells out from under her. She has until the final grape is picked to prove the place is worth more whole than carved up for parts — and he means to be gone the moment it's done. Neither of them planned on the long nights in the cellar, or how hard it is to walk away from something you've started to build.