XANDER
For ten years, I’ve led Ridgeline Station the same way.
Do the job. Follow orders. Don’t make it personal.
Then Colin Bradford comes up the mountain in the middle of a storm.
He’s the new medic. Former Navy corpsman. Calm when everyone else is falling apart. Impossible to intimidate. The first man in years willing to look me in the eye and tell me I’m wrong.
The worst part? He’s usually right.
A week later, he’s sitting in my chair, smiling like he belongs there. I walk in ready to remind him who’s in charge.
Instead I notice the freckles across his nose… and forget every word I came in to say.
I’m forty-two years old. I was married to a woman. I’ve never questioned who I was.
Until Colin Bradford became my storm.
COLIN
Everyone warned me about Captain Xander.
Grumpy. Stubborn. Married to the job.
They forgot to mention the man underneath. The one who’d walk into any storm to bring a stranger home. The one everyone at Ridgeline trusts without question—and who’s forgotten how to let anyone do the same for him.
Then I catch him watching me instead of the mountain. Like I’m the one thing up here he can’t predict.
He thinks I haven’t noticed.
I’ve noticed. And making the unshakable Captain Xander lose his composure might be my new favorite part of the job.
I’ve spent my life moving from one posting to the next. Everything I own fits into two bags. I never planned on staying anywhere.
But Ridgeline no longer feels like just another stop.
And Xander feels like the reason I might stay.
Storm is a slow-burn MM romance featuring grumpy/sunshine, first-time-with-a-man bi-awakening, forced proximity, and found family on a mountain search and rescue team. Book one in the Ridgeline Station series. Standalone with an HEA.
Genre: Gay Romance
For ten years, I’ve led Ridgeline Station the same way.
Do the job. Follow orders. Don’t make it personal.
Then Colin Bradford comes up the mountain in the middle of a storm.
He’s the new medic. Former Navy corpsman. Calm when everyone else is falling apart. Impossible to intimidate. The first man in years willing to look me in the eye and tell me I’m wrong.
The worst part? He’s usually right.
A week later, he’s sitting in my chair, smiling like he belongs there. I walk in ready to remind him who’s in charge.
Instead I notice the freckles across his nose… and forget every word I came in to say.
I’m forty-two years old. I was married to a woman. I’ve never questioned who I was.
Until Colin Bradford became my storm.
COLIN
Everyone warned me about Captain Xander.
Grumpy. Stubborn. Married to the job.
They forgot to mention the man underneath. The one who’d walk into any storm to bring a stranger home. The one everyone at Ridgeline trusts without question—and who’s forgotten how to let anyone do the same for him.
Then I catch him watching me instead of the mountain. Like I’m the one thing up here he can’t predict.
He thinks I haven’t noticed.
I’ve noticed. And making the unshakable Captain Xander lose his composure might be my new favorite part of the job.
I’ve spent my life moving from one posting to the next. Everything I own fits into two bags. I never planned on staying anywhere.
But Ridgeline no longer feels like just another stop.
And Xander feels like the reason I might stay.
Storm is a slow-burn MM romance featuring grumpy/sunshine, first-time-with-a-man bi-awakening, forced proximity, and found family on a mountain search and rescue team. Book one in the Ridgeline Station series. Standalone with an HEA.
Genre: Gay Romance