Clay
The divorce had been the right decision for us both. You wouldn’t have known it from the way I moped around afterward. It wasn’t my ex I missed, it was seeing my kids every day.
It was being one half of a whole.
Our Search and Rescue dispatcher, Emily, told me to spend my free time doing something I used to love before becoming a dad. When she asked what that was, my answer had been simple: sex. Not just any sex, either. The spontaneous, rough-edged kind that left you marked and breathless and wanting more.
I hadn’t expected her to offer herself up as my friend-with-benefits. I really hadn’t expected to fall for her.
Now I wondered whether this arrangement would heal what had broken in me, or shatter my heart all over again.
Emily
Offering a sympathetic ear to a coworker had turned into an arrangement I never saw coming. I was forty, divorced, and my kids were off at college. The house was suddenly quiet, and I wasn’t sure who I was without someone constantly needing me.
Clay was supposed to be a little fun. A reminder that life wasn’t over just because the marriage was. But being coworkers and lovers made it nearly impossible not to get attached.
So when my daughter, Neveah, went camping and a wildfire headed her way, emotions ran high. Far too high for me to keep my distance. Clay was right there, steady and fierce, and it became harder to pretend he was only temporary.
The real question was whether he was ready for more than mutual release, or if I was risking my heart on a man still piecing his back together.
Find out in this mountain man romance novella featuring two single parents finding joy after divorce. It features no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.
The divorce had been the right decision for us both. You wouldn’t have known it from the way I moped around afterward. It wasn’t my ex I missed, it was seeing my kids every day.
It was being one half of a whole.
Our Search and Rescue dispatcher, Emily, told me to spend my free time doing something I used to love before becoming a dad. When she asked what that was, my answer had been simple: sex. Not just any sex, either. The spontaneous, rough-edged kind that left you marked and breathless and wanting more.
I hadn’t expected her to offer herself up as my friend-with-benefits. I really hadn’t expected to fall for her.
Now I wondered whether this arrangement would heal what had broken in me, or shatter my heart all over again.
Emily
Offering a sympathetic ear to a coworker had turned into an arrangement I never saw coming. I was forty, divorced, and my kids were off at college. The house was suddenly quiet, and I wasn’t sure who I was without someone constantly needing me.
Clay was supposed to be a little fun. A reminder that life wasn’t over just because the marriage was. But being coworkers and lovers made it nearly impossible not to get attached.
So when my daughter, Neveah, went camping and a wildfire headed her way, emotions ran high. Far too high for me to keep my distance. Clay was right there, steady and fierce, and it became harder to pretend he was only temporary.
The real question was whether he was ready for more than mutual release, or if I was risking my heart on a man still piecing his back together.
Find out in this mountain man romance novella featuring two single parents finding joy after divorce. It features no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.