Crafted by the Mountain Man

She came to spec his millwork. She stayed to build a life.

Paige Whitaker has eight days in Timber Ridge, Montana, a New York promotion waiting in four weeks, and a portfolio full of designs she already knows aren’t her best work. The last thing she needs is a broad-shouldered former Army carpenter standing on the other side of his workbench, marking up her drawings in pencil and telling her, without heat, without apology, that one of her pieces isn’t worth his time.

Sawyer Beckett doesn’t take work he doesn’t respect. He doesn’t chase women who are leaving. And he absolutely does not fall for the city-born designer Travis sent to his shop, no matter how she holds a block plane like she was born to it.

But instalove doesn’t care about anyone’s timeline.

One workshop. Two weeks. A plane ticket home she hasn’t canceled. And a man who has been building the future in his back room without telling her yet.

A quiet, explicit small-town mountain man romance featuring: Grumpy, Spare-Spoken Former Military Hero, Curvy Virgin Heroine, Forced Proximity / Workshop Setting, Craftsman Hero Who Reads Her Like a Joint He’s Fitting, Praise Kink Flavor, Age Gap (25/34), Instalove, Hometown Acceptance & Found Family, Steamy, Emotionally Grounded First-Time, Guaranteed HEA with Nursery Epilogue

Book 2 of the Timber Ridge Mountain Builders series. Standalone.