I’ve always loved McBride Mountain and the fact that it bore my adopted last name…But now that the truth is out, that has changed.What I thought I knew vanished the moment I learned about my past.Everything feels wrong.Nothing can lift me from the darkness I’ve fallen into… Except the beautiful woman with wildly dyed hair who appears in town with a dangerous secret.She’s running from something—or someone.Clearly not interested in getting close to anyone during her time here in our small town.Yet, I’m drawn to her as if her blue eyes hold all the answers I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.She’s the only thing that’s felt right in so long.A sweet haven from my tainted reality.But when the past she’s fleeing comes to the mountain…Protecting the ones I love may mean becoming the very thing I dread.
Beyond the Mountain Sky is the second steamy, angsty contemporary mountain man romance in the McBride Brother Lumberjacks Series about a grumpy lumberjack fighting with his past, a woman on the run, an attraction they can’t deny, and danger from beyond the mountain that threatens everything. The McBride Brother Lumberjacks Series is best read in order, starting with Beneath the Mountain Sky.

Everyone knows the golden rule of business: don’t bang your business partner.Especially if he’s your brother’s hot-as-sin, hockey-star best friend.
But when the sexy single dad athlete saves me from a cake contest catastrophe—and shows me how good he is with his hands—I blurt out the world’s worst business pitch: Want to invest in my bakery?
With no loan or backup plan, this is my last shot at proving I’m more than my past mistakes, and shockingly, he says yes.
We set one rule: don’t mix business with pleasure.Except Corbin Knight’s impossible to resist.
When he’s not scoring goals, he’s staying up late with me to test tempting recipes.Braiding my hair before we bake like it’s foreplay.Giving me his jersey to wear to games.
I try to keep a professional distance from the bossy, possessive and dangerously flirty hockey player, but soon we’re testing the limits of the kitchen counter.
This bakery is my chance to finally get my life right, so I fight the messy feelings.Until one night, he shows up after closing and admits he can’t stop thinking about me.
Suddenly I’m ready to break every rule—no matter the cost to our dreams.
And breaking the rules has never tasted so good.

This is Corbin and Mabel's romance. Tropes include: Brother's best friend, single dad, workplace romance, hockey, the one who got away, love letters

Revenge was the plan. Falling for the hockey star next door wasn’t.
My new neighbor is a hot, grumpy hockey player who works out shirtless on his porch every morning. But it’s not technically spying if I just happen to be on my patio at the same time … right?
Imagine my surprise when the sexy grouch turns out to be the client who just hired me to redecorate the house he’s giving his mom.
What’s a ray of sunshine like me to do? Pretend I’ve never noticed his abs while we pick out furniture—since I’d never date a client. And Ford’s made it clear this is his final season, and he wants zero distractions.
Which means I need to exercise some serious resistance …
To his cool blue eyes that track my every move.To that deep voice that makes me shiver.And to the mouth that shuts me up one night in our shared backyard with a scorching kiss.
We agree it’s a one-time slip-up—until my cheating ex invites me to a party, and Ford insists on being my revenge date. Our fake night out turns into a very real sleepover.
Now the press and fans think we’re a couple, so we keep it up. One fake date at a charity gala turns into another at a hockey game, and somewhere between fabric swatches and porch picnics, I stop pretending.
But how do I convince Ford that with me, he can have both love and hockey?
Tropes: Neighbors to lovers, hockey romance, workplace romance, revenge fake dating, romantic comedy. This is Ford and Skylar's romance!

I didn’t think I could love anyone the way I did my twin brother, then his fiancée became my sweetest obsession...
The first time I saw Ivy, I knew I had to have her.It didn’t matter that she wasn’t mine.Or that she belonged to my twin brother…An instant cosmic connection that I couldn’t break took a stranglehold on me. I thought I understood addiction.Had battled it and won.But every fleeting touch only makes me want more.Each kiss drags me deeper into my obsession.Ivy has become the worst kind of drug.And actions have consequences.A hard lesson I’ve learned in the most brutal way.I’m being torn apart.Those demons I’ve fought so hard to keep locked away shred me from the inside out.I’ve lived through unimaginable loss and pain.Agonizing guilt and shame.I know I should walk away, but…Ivy has become my sweetest obsession even if she might be what truly destroys me.
My Sweetest Obsession is the second book in the brand new contemporary romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Gwyn McNamee featuring forbidden attraction, shared grief, a morally gray, broody obsessive, protective bad boy hero and a good girl, lies, gut-wrenching angst, intense spicy scenes, and secrets that will leave you reeling. Please start with book one, My Sweetest Agony.

One cabin. One week. One fake relationship.
Winter break was supposed to be one last trip with my best friends, a little snowboarding, maybe some hot cocoa spiked with something stronger. No drama, no strings.
Then my cabin got double-booked.
Enter Mira Winters—my childhood neighbor and crush. And somehow, the girl managed to get even prettier since the last time I saw her.
She’s got one her family makes mine look like a walk in the park, and she’d rather fake a boyfriend than deal with their constant judgement.
Guess who she asks to step up? Yours truly.
It’s supposed to be for show. Hold her hand. Steal a kiss under the mistletoe. Pretend I’m head over heels for her. Easy. Right?
Except the more we play this game, the more I want it to be real. And suddenly I’m less worried about the score her family is keeping and more about what happens when the week is over—because for the first time in a long time, I’m all in.
This Christmas, I don’t just want to win the game.I want the girl.
This spicy, forced proximity holiday romance is a sweet companion novella to the Shadow Valley U series. It can be enjoyed as a standalone.

Wanted: A fresh shot at love for the holidays. But fake dating my brother’s grumpy best friend? He’s my new client, for Santa’s sake!As a professional matchmaker, my biggest job this holiday season should be simple: find a date for the sexy single dad hockey player—aka my brother’s best friend—for his team’s fancy Christmas Eve gala.Sure Rowan’s hot as a crackling fire and spicier than a gingerbread man, but he hasn’t just sworn off romance. The Christmas hater has made a bet that I can’t find him a holidate.What’s a matchmaker to do?Win, of course. Even if it means fake dating the grinch myself to get him ready for the real thing.Only…these fake dates at Christmas tree farms and hot cocoa competitions in the snowy small town of Evergreen Falls start to feel a little too real as I get to know the man behind the scowl. Somewhere between kisses under the mistletoe and a snowed-in night in his cabin curled up by the fire (where the stockings aren’t the only thing hung), I realize I’m in over my elf-loving head.And when Rowan opens up to me at last about his painful past, I’m determined to give my brother’s best friend the holiday he deserves.But what if the only gift I want him to unwrap this season is… me?
Tropes: Holiday romance, brother’s best friend, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, small town, Christmas competition, matchmaker romance, workplace romance

A second-chances friends-to-lovers redemption story featuring a rockstar hero in need of forgiveness, a jilted drummer heroine craving belonging, and a secret crush revealed.
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He broke my heart. Now he wants me back.
KACIE: Micah Andrews was my everything—bandmate, best friend, and secret crush—until he replaced me as the drummer in his band.
I was devastated. I moved back home and vowed never to let myself be vulnerable again.
Now he's begging me to come back to help him record an album on a super tight timeline. Rebecca—his new drummer—left him high and dry, and the label's given him an ultimatum: Finish the album or they're canceling his upcoming tour.
I tried to say no. I told him to find another drummer. But Micah doesn't want another drummer.
He wants me.
I hear the emotion in his voice. I know how much he's counting on me right now, and I also know how utterly lost I've been without him. I can't walk away from this chance to repair our friendship, but I'd better figure out how to protect my heart—and fast—or Micah might just break it into a thousand pieces all over again, and then I'd lose my best friend. Forever.
--Soulmates: Two bands. Three shows. Four happily ever afters.
Just Friends With a Rockstar is a complete romance novella with no cliffhanger. This story can be enjoyed as a standalone or read as the first book in the Soulmates interwoven rockstar romance series.

I didn’t think I’d survive the death of my fiancé, then his twin brother became my sweetest agony...
When Andrew died, I didn’t just lose my future husband.My best friend and my other half was torn away from me.Nothing could fill that void or ease the anguish.Then his twin brother darkened my doorstep.And somehow, everything got worse.They may share a face but…Where Drew was bright, sweet, sensitive, giving, and open…Camden is dark, broody, intense, closed off, and mysterious.He’s nothing like the man I loved.Yet the way he looks at me strips me bare and sears my skin.His touch sparks a flame I never thought I’d feel again.All that heat threatens to consume me.To burn me into ashes and blow me away in the wind—like those of the man I believed my heart would always belong to.Everything about this, about him is wrong.Especially because he’s keeping things from me.Unspoken truths. Lies. Hidden desires. Molten needs.I didn’t think I would live through losing Drew, but now…Cam has become my sweetest agony and might be what truly destroys me.

My Sweetest Agony is the first book in a brand new contemporary romance duet from USA Today Bestselling Author Gwyn McNamee featuring forbidden attraction, shared grief, a morally gray, broody obsessive, protective hero and a good girl, lies, gun-wrenching angst, intense spicy scenes, and secrets that will leave you reeling.

I thought surviving Sterling Falls was the worst of it.
I was wrong.

Saint doesn’t remember the last two years—doesn’t remember the war we fought, the people we lost, or the way we burned for each other. To him, I’m a stranger. To me, he’s the man I can’t let go of, even if it feels like starting over with a ghost.

Reese shows up on the island, raw with regret and determined to prove he’s changed.
Kade follows, carrying secrets I’m not sure I want to uncover.

We’re trapped together in a place meant to heal but built to break us. And beyond the waves of Isle of Paradise, Ouranos is tightening his grip on Sterling Falls, tearing the city I love apart piece by piece.

If we can’t put our past betrayals aside and fight as one, we’ll lose more than the town we swore to protect.
We’ll lose each other.

And this time, there won’t be a second chance.

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Nemesis and Warrior must be read prior for continuity.

There’s only one thing more beautiful than McBride Mountain…And she left it a year ago—taking my heart with her.Everyone says I’m a volatile and reclusive grump.They’re not wrong.There isn’t any reason to be otherwise.Until the day I find her in the river…Bruised. Broken. Near death.With zero memory of where she’s been for the past twelve months.This mystery surrounding the time Willow’s been gone draws my brothers and me into a maelstrom of secrets, lies, and uncertainties.And having her back in my cabin and life brings a landslide of emotions.The McBride brothers have always been good with an axe and willing to help anyone on the mountain…Yet when the love of my life is the one suffering, I’ve never felt more helpless.This could be our second chance, but only if I can protect her from the past she can’t remember.
Beneath the Mountain Sky is the first book steamy, angsty contemporary mountain man romance in the McBride Brother Lumberjacks Series about a reclusive lumberjack, a second chance with the love of his life, and a mystery that will send them into the deepest, darkest parts of the mountain and make them face all their demons to find their happily ever after beneath the mountain sky.❤️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞
🪓 Mountain Man/Lumberjack
🏡 Small town
🩵 Second chance
😎 Grumpy/Sunshine
🔥 Protective Hero
☠️ Touch Her and Die Vibes
🖤 Hurt/comfort
🩵 Traumatized Heroine
🖤 Amnesia
🩵 Forced Proximity
🖤 Found family
🩵 Mystery & Suspense
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy
😭 Angsty

Everything that could go wrong—did.

Kade’s loyalties are tangled in something far more treacherous than any of us realized.

Reese seems desperate to make amends, and I hate to say, he’s growing on me.

And Artemis….

Well, she won’t wake up. According to Gabriel, she might not ever.

There has to be a cure—but only if I keep a level head. Grief and anger crash inside me, and if I lose my cool, I might lose her, too.

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Nemesis must be read prior to Warrior for continuity.

Alex Lancaster is a gorgeous monster.A vicious legend.A story his fraternity tells to scare away the weak.
And I’m his obsession…
While everyone thinks Alex has been locked behind the walls of Montgomery Psychiatric Ward for the past two years, he’s been secretly watching from the shadows. Waiting.
Manipulating my life and sabotaging my relationships.
I try to tell myself it’s because he understands me. The same fraternity that nearly killed him is responsible for my best friend’s death. Our trauma goes hand in hand.
Unfortunately, so do our lies.
Alex is no prince. No savior. No god.And the truth is, I’m no better.
There’s only one way to rise from the ashes, and that’s to burn. We might as well both go down together.
This series contains overlapping timelines and plot points. It is highly recommended to read Saint and Eternal first.Author's Note: Atone is an extremely dark romance with a morally irredeemable MMC, heavy subject matter, mature content, and explicit scenes. Content/TWs (which contain spoilers) can be found on author's website. 18+ only.

From New York Times bestselling author J.C. Reed comes a small-town, enemy-to-lovers, billionaire romance.

The guy I just met at the mansion I inherited from a complete stranger?
He's drop dead gorgeous. Sexy. And rude with a Capital R.
Turns out he's not the hot gardener as I wrongly assumed. He's not
only a famous rock star who grew up in the house, he's also ready to
fight for it. And being both hot-headed and Irish, he's going to fight
hard and dirty.

I'm not moving out. Full Stop.
But neither is he. So we agree on some simple rules.

We'll play roommates for a while. What could possibly go wrong?
Living together with an Irish Hothead will surely cause a major storm.
Let's hope bracing that storm won't turn into a hurricane.

A new darkness is seeping into Sterling Falls, and I’ve drawn its ire.

When a masked stranger declares he wants our ruin—mine, my brother’s, the whole town’s—I hope he’s bluffing.

A series of escalating events later, and it’s clear the threat is very present.
It’s not only present, but it drags up old nightmares from my past.

To keep my beloved city safe, I need to find this masked man and eliminate the threat.

I can’t do it on my own, but the three men poised to help are the ones I am almost certain I can’t trust.

Kade Laurent, the elusive and thrilling newcomer, leverages Olympus to get close to me.

Reese Avery, a ghost from my past, brings with him the trauma I’ve tried to bury. But he says he’s here to make amends…

Saint Hart, the partner of my dead best friend, and I will never get along. Especially since I’ve been tasked with keeping him alive. At least, I was convinced we were going to be mortal enemies forever—until we hate-screw in my kitchen…

Now things are all messed up, and I don’t know who I can rely on.

All I want is peace, but with danger climbing around me, it seems I’m destined for the opposite.

It was meant to be a girls’ night. No guys allowed. Until one blind kiss had me caught in the devil’s web.A monster in Armani.An heir to the underworld.He upends my life, his seduction smooth even as he offers two choices: get in his car or be shoved in his trunk.No, thanks.But when my past comes back to haunt me, there’s only one man ruthless enough to stand between me and the threat.The same man who makes my heart race for reasons that should probably have me medicated.Trusting Salvatore with my life is dangerous. But resisting him? Impossible.Because he doesn’t just want me safe.He wants me to remain by his side. As his queen.And he’s not willing to let anything come between us.Not fate. Not fear. Not even death.