Holloway Outfitters — A 5-Book Mountain-Man Romance Series

HOLLOWAY OUTFITTERS

A Five-Book Mountain-Man Romance Series

Five rugged brothers · One remote Montana lodge · Five women it won’t let disappear

Five rugged Holloway brothers. One remote Montana lodge. Five women who arrive carrying secrets, grief, or unfinished business — and find the family, land, and love that will not let them disappear.

The Series

The Holloway brothers run an outfitting lodge at the back of an eighteen-mile gravel road in the Bitterroot wilderness. Their father Dan built it in 1990. He died in 2019. Wes raised four brothers on a porch and a wood stove, and the lodge has been the still center of all of them ever since.

Across a single year, from late May 2025 to late May 2026, five women drive up the gravel — a banker with her father’s ashes, a mechanic with a marriage license, a widow in her dead husband’s flannel, a journalist with a brief, and a vet tech with a yellow cake — and the lodge does what the lodge does. It does not let them disappear. The brothers are flannel-quiet; the women carry their own externals (trust law, aviation, medicine, journalism, veterinary work); and a series-long fight over the bank, the watershed, and the trust runs underneath all five love stories.

Told in dual first-person past with grumpy/sunshine rotated across the five pairings, the heat is on-page, possessive, and tied to safety rather than spectacle.

The men are protective. The women choose. The lodge holds.

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The Five Books

Book One — Guided (Sloane & Wes)

“She booked five days under a false name to scatter her father in a meadow only one man could find. He clocked the lie before she made it up the porch steps.”

Guided · Sloane & Wes

Sloane Lockett drives eighteen miles of Montana gravel under a false name with her father’s urn zipped inside her duffel and a cover story she practiced for two thousand miles. Wes Holloway, the eldest brother and lead guide of Holloway Outfitters, watches her get out of the rental and clocks the lie before her boots hit the porch. He gives her his dead mother’s broken-in trail boots, the right sleeping bag, and a gear check that’s in the booking terms whether she likes it or not. He does not ask her real name. He has known it since she said Bennett.

The meadow Sloane is here to find is the Cathedral, named in a 1996 magazine article she has read forty times in the dark. What she hasn’t told Wes is that the bank she works for is also closing on the Murray parcel — the gravel road, the access easement, eighty-eight five-acre lots. A storm collapses the tent on day two. By the meadow on day three, she has scattered her father, named her bank, and told a Holloway something she hasn’t told a partner in six years.

Sloane quits Lockett Capital and signs the land trust as its organizing trustee three weeks later in the great room of a lodge that does not let her disappear. Wes does not chase her. He does not have to.

Featured hooks · Mountain-Man Outfitter · Grief-Healing · Forced Proximity · False Identity / Hidden Agenda · Grumpy/Sunshine Inverted · Backcountry Trip

Book Two — Headwind (Wren & Cal)

“Eight years after Jake died on a flight Cal should have been on, his sister lands on the gravel strip with a marriage license and ninety days to keep the airfield.”

Headwind · Wren & Cal

Wren Vance flies up to Bitter Fork in late June with a probated envelope and a county form already filled out. Her brother Jake left her half of the Holloway-Vance airstrip, and the 1991 family-use aviation lease has a spousal-operator continuity clause the board hasn’t waived in thirty-four years. A competing application gives them ninety days. Calvin Holloway hasn’t been in the same room as Wren since Jake’s funeral. He’s in a hangar with a wrench when she walks in.

They marry at the courthouse on Tuesday at ten. The ceremony takes six minutes. Wren moves into the hangar cabin and onto the couch. Cal hasn’t slept since the morning Jake swapped seats with him on the ramp and took the impact that should have been his. By week two, Wren rebuilds a carburetor on the hangar bench and reads Cal the December letter Jake left in the back of his wallet. Then the rival files a sham-marriage challenge, and the next twelve days become a courtroom, a perjured deposition, and a four-a.m. note on a kitchen table.

A man who has been waiting since he was twenty-five and a woman who has loved him since she was nineteen. Cal does not look back. Wren does not soften. The strip stays in the family for twenty-five years.

Featured hooks · Marriage of Convenience · Dead Best Friend’s Sister · Second-Chance / Long-Burning · Forced Cohabitation · Public Legal Challenge · Pilot Hero

Book Three — Hearth (Tess & Sam)

“She arrives in her dead husband’s flannel to interview for a cook job. The brother on the porch already knew the husband.”

Hearth · Tess & Sam

Tess Quinn drives the eighteen miles up to the lodge at six a.m. on a Wednesday in mid-September in the only flannel she has kept of her husband Eli’s. Sam Holloway is on the porch with a tea towel and a coffee, and he clocks the flannel at six-oh-four. He does not say a word about it. He has known Eli since 2014. He decides, on the porch, that he will tell her by Friday.

She makes scrambled eggs for ten in eleven minutes. He hires her at six-twelve. By the second week of hunt season she has held a hunter’s thumb steady through three sutures, told Sam about the three semesters she finished short of an MD a decade ago, and decided to apply to the spring re-entry program at UW Seattle.

Tess leaves for Seattle on the fourth of January. Sam sells his share of the cabin to Wes, takes four weeks off the schedule, and arrives at her studio with a rental six blocks away. He doesn’t ask her to be the woman at his kitchen. He cooks for her instead — a reverse-relocation HEA where the hero follows the heroine to her future, not the other way around.

Featured hooks · Widow Heroine · Sunshine Hero · He-Knew-the-Husband · Workplace / Found-Family Kitchen · Reverse-Relocation HEA · Slow Burn

Book Four — Track (June & Beau)

“A journalist embeds at the lodge for three weeks. A snowstorm makes it five. By Christmas morning, her old byline is being used against the family she has fallen into.”

Track · June & Beau

June Calderón lands on the gravel strip in early December with a Canon, a duffel, and an assignment for a regional outdoor quarterly. The single-dad brother on the porch said hard pass. His daughter Maisie does not get the memo — she comes out in a pom-pom hat and asks if June is the writer lady. Beau Holloway hasn’t given his eyes to a woman on his porch in any year since 2019. He gives them to June on the third mile of a four-mile walk in a snowstorm.

The storm stalls; three weeks becomes five. On Christmas Eve, Maisie hands June a small carved pine horse with a red thread around its neck. At five-oh-six on Christmas morning, June’s phone buzzes: a bank brief on the upstream watershed parcels cites her own 2022 op-ed on Western water rights. She doesn’t tell Beau for nine days. The silence is the betrayal.

June files the follow-up at an independent paper; a coalition picks it up; three hundred residents file comments inside forty-eight hours; the bank backs off the watershed. June stays at the lodge. The horse stays on the bench.

Featured hooks · Single Dad / Wounded Widower · Journalist Heroine · Snowed-In Forced Proximity · Small Child as Third Pole · Public Reckoning · Found Family

Book Five — Ground (Cara Mae & Tate) · Series Capstone

“The youngest Holloway brings eight bags of feed to the back of a vet clinic. The woman on the other side of the door has been gone six years — and has come home for a reason.”

Ground · Cara Mae & Tate

Cara Mae Briggs comes back to Bitter Fork in February of 2026. She is twenty-two, Hank Briggs’s daughter and Wren’s cousin, and the woman who stood across from the youngest Holloway brother at a church-hall door in August of 2019. Tate Holloway is twenty-four, lifting fifty-pound feed bags off his tailgate because Hank asked him to — and Hank does not ask without a reason.

A storm closes the gravel for four days on Tate’s twenty-fifth birthday. Cara Mae drives up with a yellow cake and a foaling mare in the stable, and by day two she tells Tate, at the long table, what happened to her in Bozeman in 2023. Tate does not fix it. Tate does not joke. He says he is very sorry, and he says he is not going anywhere.

By late April she is pregnant; the fear of another loss almost takes her back down the gravel. Cara Mae carries past eleven weeks, the baby is alive at twenty, and the porch holds. The strip is open. The brothers are paired. The season opens at five.

Featured hooks · Reunion / Second-Chance · Youngest Brother · Pregnancy Storyline · Family-History Finale · Small-Town Return · Trauma Recovery

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