Returning to Alaska was never part of the plan, but I can't walk away when my gran's beloved bed and breakfast is crumbling before my eyes. Sticking around definitely has NOTHING to do with the smoking hot firefighter renting my parents' guesthouse.

(Especially not when I get to watch him paint shirtless).

He's got a hard candy shell, but I'm determined to tease him until I crack it. Pretty soon he's chasing me through the hotel and straddling me on a bed to get his revenge...

Not that it leads anywhere good, because West has the self-control of a monk. Sigh.

He says it's because he's a single dad. He says it's because he's friends with my parents...but even a former marine has to give in to his desires sometimes.

When West finally kisses me, I light up like a Times Square Christmas tree. He loses his restraint...I lose my shirt...

But then his guard is back up before anything good can happen.

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Coming down from his homestead in the mountains to the hustle of L.A. is the last thing widower and secret millionaire Henry Benson wants, especially since he unexpectedly has become the most eligible bachelor in the eyes of social media. Hiding from the world is his superpower, after all.

Thankfully, his friend Chloe steps in as his fake girlfriend to take off the pressure as he faces a week of media scrutiny.

Chloe may melt his icy walls, but Henry will need to jump heart-first into a future he ruled out long ago if he wants a chance at happiness.

From New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan and the up-and-coming dynamo Billie Bloom comes an all-new romance with sizzling heat, found-family and what it means to truly be happy.

Being trapped all winter in a remote Alaskan off-grid town sounds horrible, until you meet the lumber-hunks that offer to share their space with us.

You wouldn't suspect a group of L.A. women are capable of hacking it here, but you'd be wrong.

Turns out, we have just what this group of former military operatives need in life, and it's so much more than any of them want to admit.