She came to the mountains for solitude. She found a family instead.

Curvy Children’s book author Emma Hartley is desperate. With a Christmas book deadline looming and crippling writer’s block after a brutal breakup, she rents a remote cabin in Pine Creek, Colorado. Peace, quiet, and zero distractions—that’s the plan.

Until she arrives to find the cabin already occupied.

Jack Collins wasn’t expecting a tenant during the holidays. The gruff lumberjack and single dad of two has enough on his plate running the family timber business and raising his kids alone. Three years after losing his wife, he’s built a careful life—one that doesn’t include beautiful, paint-splattered women who make his kids light up like Christmas morning.

When a massive blizzard traps them together through Thanksgiving, the forced proximity ignites something neither of them planned for. Emma finds herself reading bedtime stories, teaching art projects, and falling for two adorable matchmakers who want her to stay forever. Jack fights his growing feelings, guilt over moving on warring with the way Emma brings warmth back into their home.

But Emma refuses to be anyone’s second choice. She deserves a man who’s all in—not one still wearing his wedding ring.

As the snow melts and Christmas approaches, Jack must decide: will he let fear keep him frozen in the past, or risk his heart on the magic of a second chance?

A heartwarming, steamy mountain man romance featuring:

• Forced proximity during a blizzard
• Grumpy single dad meets sunshine heroine
• Curvy heroine
• Adorable matchmaking children
• Christmas magic and second chances
• Found family feels
• Small-town Colorado charm

This is a standalone novella in the Timber Falls Mountain Men series. HEA guaranteed.