Review: ‘Billionaire Lumberjack’ by Gwyn McNamee
Billionaire Lumberjack
by Gwyn McNameeSeries: Lumberjacks in Love #1
Published by Self-Published on January 6, 2022
SubGenres: Contemporary Romance
Format: AudioBook, eBook
Pages: 290
Narrator: Lee Daniels, Bryant Walker
Length: 7 Hours And 35 Minutes
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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Rescued by the billionaire lumberjack...
Lost.Alone.Freezing on the side of a desolate mountain in a massive snowstorm.Until a rugged man with an ax saves me.Waking in his warm, comfortable bed leaves more than one question.How did I get here?Where are my clothes?And who is this handsome recluse with striking dark eyes and a grumpy demeanor?The answers only bring more mysteries.He doesn’t want me here.Doesn’t want his secrets exposed.I don’t want him to know mine, either.But there’s only so long we can deny this sizzling attraction.Only so long until I learn the truth about my billionaire lumberjack and our pasts come back to haunt us.
Grab this steamy stand-alone about a billionaire in hiding, the photographer who stumbles upon him, and what happens when they’re trapped together during a major snow storm with building attraction and dark secrets!
Billionaire Lumberjack is the first book in Gwyn McNamee’s Lumberjacks in Love series, and each book can be read as a standalone. This was my first Lumberjack book, but not my first book where the MMC is a grumpy Mountain Man who doesn’t want to be bothered by the outside world. He has his reasons, which Gwyn McNamee reveals later on in the story.
Unfortunately, the MMC, Beau, is about to have company at his place when the heroine, Brooke, walks onto his property in the middle of a snowstorm after her truck breaks down on the mountain. He can’t very well turn her away, especially when the roads won’t be cleared for a while, and there’s no way for the Sheriff to send a helicopter to retrieve her. He’ll have to handle her being around until she can leave. Brooke isn’t sure about Beau at first, especially since he comes off as standoffish and grumpy. She’s scared of him at first, until Beau and her start to feel comfortable around each other. The issue is both are holding back secrets from one another, and that is when things will hit the fan later.
This was an enjoyable read, especially when I was listening to it on a road trip and reading it whenever I was in the hotel on my Kindle. Beau was the typical grumpy alpha male who had issues with people and kept his circle small. After I found out why, I understood him a bit better. He has a tragic and heartbreaking story, and it took someone like Brooke for him to open up again. He did worry me a bit at first with how he treated Brooke, but he had been secluded and on his own for a while, so it took him a bit to become a conversational and caring human being.
Brooke was a likable character, and I definitely felt for her after realizing why she was on that mountain in the first place. Brooke was a fighter, and I was rooting for her to have a HEA. She was escaping something, and it was obvious by how she was reacting to Beau’s attitude toward her that something had happened to her. I didn’t know what it was until it got closer to the end of the book. I definitely recommend readers check the trigger warnings prior to reading this book because Gwyn does go into detail on what happened.
This was a story about two characters who had something tragic happen to them, finding love with one another in a forced proximity, snowed-in novel. It does take a bit for the two to stop being stubborn with their feelings, but that’s due to them having to work out some things. One of them is the secrets they are holding from one another.
I give this book four stars, and I can’t wait to read more of the Lumberjacks in Love series.
****I loved that I owned both the Kindle and audiobook versions of this book because whenever I couldn’t sit down to read, I listened to the book, and the narrators, Lee Daniels and Bryant Walker, did a fabulous job of narrating this story. I definitely recommend the audiobook if you enjoy listening to your books.
Story Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Steam/Spice: 🌶️🌶️.5
Standalone or Part of Series: It’s part of the Lumberjacks in Love Series, but each book can be read as a standalone.
Would I recommend this book? Yes. If you enjoy reading Contemporary Romance with the tropes/elements Snowed In, Forced Proximity, and a Grumpy Lumberjack, this book should be added to your TBR.
Genre/SubGenre(s): Romance | Contemporary Romance
Trope(s)/Element(s): Billionaire Romance | Snowed In | Forced Proximity | Alpha Hero | Grumpy Mountain Man/Lumberjack Hero | Photographer Heroine
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About Gwyn McNamee
USA Today Best Selling author Gwyn McNamee is an attorney, wife, and mother. Originally from the Midwest, Gwyn relocated to her husband’s home town of Las Vegas in 2015 and is enjoying her respite from the cold and snow. Gwyn has been writing down her crazy stories and ideas for years and finally decided to share them with the world. She loves to write stories with a bit of suspense and action mingled with romance and heat.
When she isn’t either writing or voraciously devouring any books she can get her hands on, Gwyn is busy adding to her tattoo collection, golfing, and stirring up trouble with her perfect mix of sweetness and sarcasm (usually while wearing heels).
Gwyn’s debut novel, Savage Collision, the first book in The Hawke Family Series, was a 2017 Romance Writers of America Passionate Plumes Contest Finalist for excellence in contemporary steamy romance.
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