Tropes: Older woman/younger man, Grumpy/sunshine, Age gap (reversed), He falls first, Proving himself worthy, Size difference, MC romance
Alesia Henry has been the best diesel mechanic in the county since before Dane "Great" Turner could legally drink. She maintains the heavy equipment at Silver Hollow Mine, she doesn't suffer fools, and she's not impressed by a twenty-one-year-old orc VP who rides up on a motorcycle and grins at her like she's supposed to swoon.
She's thirty-two. She's been married to a man who made her feel stupid despite being the smartest person in every room. She armors herself in grease and attitude because the last time she let someone in, he used her softness like a blade.
Great doesn't care that she's older. He doesn't care that she thinks he's a kid playing biker. He cares that she can strip an engine block in forty minutes and that her hands shake when she thinks nobody's looking. Every authority figure in his life has left — parents killed in a crash, a club that collapsed around him, a childhood spent being tolerated but never wanted. The only person who ever stayed was Hunter, and Great is terrified that one Wednesday the phone won't ring.
He's not trying to impress Alesia. He's trying to deserve her. And when someone starts sabotaging the equipment she maintains — cutting diesel lines, draining hydraulics, trying to make monsters unemployable in Silver Hollow — the kid she underestimated becomes the orc standing between her and everything that wants to tear this town apart.
Age gap romance where she's older, meaner, and unimpressed — and he wins her over by being exactly who he is. Orc biology with scenting, feral possessiveness, and a claiming bite that changes everything. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Alesia Henry has been the best diesel mechanic in the county since before Dane "Great" Turner could legally drink. She maintains the heavy equipment at Silver Hollow Mine, she doesn't suffer fools, and she's not impressed by a twenty-one-year-old orc VP who rides up on a motorcycle and grins at her like she's supposed to swoon.
She's thirty-two. She's been married to a man who made her feel stupid despite being the smartest person in every room. She armors herself in grease and attitude because the last time she let someone in, he used her softness like a blade.
Great doesn't care that she's older. He doesn't care that she thinks he's a kid playing biker. He cares that she can strip an engine block in forty minutes and that her hands shake when she thinks nobody's looking. Every authority figure in his life has left — parents killed in a crash, a club that collapsed around him, a childhood spent being tolerated but never wanted. The only person who ever stayed was Hunter, and Great is terrified that one Wednesday the phone won't ring.
He's not trying to impress Alesia. He's trying to deserve her. And when someone starts sabotaging the equipment she maintains — cutting diesel lines, draining hydraulics, trying to make monsters unemployable in Silver Hollow — the kid she underestimated becomes the orc standing between her and everything that wants to tear this town apart.
Age gap romance where she's older, meaner, and unimpressed — and he wins her over by being exactly who he is. Orc biology with scenting, feral possessiveness, and a claiming bite that changes everything. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance