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Thirty years of friendship. One burst pipe. Two weeks of terrible ideas.
Piper Peters has spent her whole adult life twelve feet from Bart Cameron — sharing a fire pit, sharing Christmases, sharing everything except the one thing she's been too smart to say out loud. The mate bond never happened. They were safe. She was sure of it.
Then the pipes froze, her cabin flooded, and the only cabin on Crescent Row with a spare room belonged to him.
She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself she's fine. She tells herself that walking into a narrow hallway and finding six feet of Bart Cameron in nothing but a towel is not going to be a problem.
She is wrong on all three counts.
Bart has been managing the impossible for twenty years. Managing the pull, managing the silence, managing to be exactly what Piper needed without ever letting himself want more. He built her an evaporator from a complicated spec. He fixed her van twice when it didn't need fixing. He has been, in every way that matters, completely and hopelessly gone on his best friend since they were kids — and he has never said a word.
But twelve days in his cabin, her in his space, wearing her off-duty sweater on his couch — twenty years of careful management comes apart in one night. And when the bond finally hits, it hits with the absolute certainty of something that was always going to happen, and the terrifying possibility that she might not feel the same.
She does. She just doesn't know what it means yet.
Holiday Heat with the Mountain Man is a steamy standalone bear shifter romance set on Crescent Row at Christmas — best friends to lovers, forced proximity, and a proposal involving a handmade ring carved from her own maple tree. It's part of the larger Bears of the Rockies series as well as the Log Cabin Christmas multi-author series.
Perfect for fans of small-town Christmas romance, best friends who should have kissed years ago, and mountain men who show love by fixing things.Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Piper Peters has spent her whole adult life twelve feet from Bart Cameron — sharing a fire pit, sharing Christmases, sharing everything except the one thing she's been too smart to say out loud. The mate bond never happened. They were safe. She was sure of it.
Then the pipes froze, her cabin flooded, and the only cabin on Crescent Row with a spare room belonged to him.
She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself she's fine. She tells herself that walking into a narrow hallway and finding six feet of Bart Cameron in nothing but a towel is not going to be a problem.
She is wrong on all three counts.
Bart has been managing the impossible for twenty years. Managing the pull, managing the silence, managing to be exactly what Piper needed without ever letting himself want more. He built her an evaporator from a complicated spec. He fixed her van twice when it didn't need fixing. He has been, in every way that matters, completely and hopelessly gone on his best friend since they were kids — and he has never said a word.
But twelve days in his cabin, her in his space, wearing her off-duty sweater on his couch — twenty years of careful management comes apart in one night. And when the bond finally hits, it hits with the absolute certainty of something that was always going to happen, and the terrifying possibility that she might not feel the same.
She does. She just doesn't know what it means yet.
Holiday Heat with the Mountain Man is a steamy standalone bear shifter romance set on Crescent Row at Christmas — best friends to lovers, forced proximity, and a proposal involving a handmade ring carved from her own maple tree. It's part of the larger Bears of the Rockies series as well as the Log Cabin Christmas multi-author series.
Perfect for fans of small-town Christmas romance, best friends who should have kissed years ago, and mountain men who show love by fixing things.Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance