Snowed In with the Mountain Lumberjack
(2026)(Book 18 in the Lumberjacks of Evergreen Valley series)
A novel by Emily Crescent
He closed the deadbolt. Snow screamed. I stayed.
Travis Boone: broad shoulders, storm‑blue eyes, a crescent scar at his temple, and hands that split wood like they split doubts. He smells like coffee and sawdust and something that makes me want to stop running. He guards people the way he guards his ridge—practical, stubborn, and fiercely afraid of losing anyone else.
I was stranded on a mountain with a broken rental and a useless phone. He hauled me through drifts, dried me by his stove, taught me to swing an ax, and showed me how a man can hold a life without caging it. We kissed in a hallway during a blackout. We argued about staying. We made stew and promises. His generator blew; my editor called. Jules dangled Morocco—two weeks, front‑page money. My passport wanted the sky. My chest wanted the cabin.
Take the job and leave him. Stay and risk giving up the road that made me me. He says he’ll be the place I come back to. I have one hour to answer. Can two stubborn people build a life that lets both of them fly?
Genre: Romance
Travis Boone: broad shoulders, storm‑blue eyes, a crescent scar at his temple, and hands that split wood like they split doubts. He smells like coffee and sawdust and something that makes me want to stop running. He guards people the way he guards his ridge—practical, stubborn, and fiercely afraid of losing anyone else.
I was stranded on a mountain with a broken rental and a useless phone. He hauled me through drifts, dried me by his stove, taught me to swing an ax, and showed me how a man can hold a life without caging it. We kissed in a hallway during a blackout. We argued about staying. We made stew and promises. His generator blew; my editor called. Jules dangled Morocco—two weeks, front‑page money. My passport wanted the sky. My chest wanted the cabin.
Take the job and leave him. Stay and risk giving up the road that made me me. He says he’ll be the place I come back to. I have one hour to answer. Can two stubborn people build a life that lets both of them fly?
Genre: Romance