When the Line Shifts
(2026)(The fourth book in the Cloudrest Recovery Romances series)
A novel by Briar Hope
She spent six years taking care of everyone else.
He spent four years making sure no one noticed him at all.
Emily Gibson walked away from a professional soccer contract to care for her mother. She always meant to go back. But now the house is quiet, the future she planned is gone, and she's left with a question she's spent years avoiding: what does she actually want?
The answer brings her to Cloudrest Recovery Center.
Ha-jun "Jun" Kim used to coach soccer at the highest level. Then one false accusation cost him everything. Now he maintains Cloudrest's trails and fields, keeps his knowledge of the game to himself, and has no intention of ever stepping back into the sport that nearly destroyed his life.
Until Emily starts training.
He recognizes what she still has before she does. Quietly, he helps her rebuild—one suggestion, one practice, one act of care at a time. He falls for her long before she notices.
But helping Emily chase the future she deserves means risking the anonymity that's become his safest place.
And Emily must decide whether the dream she walked away from is still worth chasing—or whether the life waiting for her looks nothing like the one she imagined.
A closed-door, slow-burn sports romance. He falls first. Cozy mountain setting. Spicy food, shared hikes, Colorado spring, and two people learning that sometimes the life you never planned is the one worth choosing.
Genre: Romance
He spent four years making sure no one noticed him at all.
Emily Gibson walked away from a professional soccer contract to care for her mother. She always meant to go back. But now the house is quiet, the future she planned is gone, and she's left with a question she's spent years avoiding: what does she actually want?
The answer brings her to Cloudrest Recovery Center.
Ha-jun "Jun" Kim used to coach soccer at the highest level. Then one false accusation cost him everything. Now he maintains Cloudrest's trails and fields, keeps his knowledge of the game to himself, and has no intention of ever stepping back into the sport that nearly destroyed his life.
Until Emily starts training.
He recognizes what she still has before she does. Quietly, he helps her rebuild—one suggestion, one practice, one act of care at a time. He falls for her long before she notices.
But helping Emily chase the future she deserves means risking the anonymity that's become his safest place.
And Emily must decide whether the dream she walked away from is still worth chasing—or whether the life waiting for her looks nothing like the one she imagined.
A closed-door, slow-burn sports romance. He falls first. Cozy mountain setting. Spicy food, shared hikes, Colorado spring, and two people learning that sometimes the life you never planned is the one worth choosing.
Genre: Romance