Pine Hollow Mountain — A 3-Book Small-Town Romance Trilogy

PINE HOLLOW MOUNTAIN

A Small-Town Mountain Romance Trilogy

3 Short Reads • Alternating First Person • HEA per Book + Series Save-the-Town Arc

Three men who’ve been holding the line alone. Three women who come back to claim what was never theirs. One Colorado mountain town deciding it’s not for sale.

The Series

Pine Hollow is dying the way small towns do — slowly, then all at once. The resort group circling overhead promises reinvention: luxury suites, curated experiences, a town repackaged for people who’ll never stay. But the lodge, the bar, and the mountain rescue station aren’t ready to be absorbed into someone else’s brand.

Three anchors. Three people who’ve kept them running alone. And three women who arrive from elsewhere and refuse to leave the same.

Each book stands alone with a complete HEA. Together, they’re the story of a town that decides — couple by couple, anchor by anchor — that some things simply aren’t for sale.

What’s Included in This Package

The Three Books

Book One — Freefall (Rachel & Wells)

“She came to sign the papers and leave. The mountain gave her four days, a fire, and a reason to stay.”

Freefall · Rachel & Wells

RACHEL BISHOP drove to Pine Hollow to inherit a lodge she’d never seen — sign the resort group’s offer, close the estate, and be back in Boston before her partnership meeting. Then an avalanche buried the access road and stranded her at the lodge with WELLS COOPER, the widowed rescue captain who knew her father better than she ever had, and his seven-year-old daughter, Mabel, who builds Lego cities and asks questions Rachel can’t answer. Four days minimum until the road clears. Four days to discover the father she thought had abandoned her built a life worth inheriting.

Wells has spent three years white-knuckling survival — raising Mabel alone, running the rescue station, and watching the resort group circle the lodge like weather closing in. He didn’t expect Rachel to show up in person, and he absolutely didn’t expect to fall for a woman whose whole life is waiting two thousand miles away. But the partnership meeting is Thursday, the offer expires the same day, and when the road clears she’ll have to choose between the career she built and the town that’s offering her the family she thought she’d lost.

Instalove at its most unforgiving — fast, snowbound, and irrevocable. When the avalanche clears and the choice turns real, Rachel has to decide whether she’s brave enough to keep the lodge in Pine Hollow — and the man and the girl who’ve already made space for her.

Featured hooks · Snowbound Forced Proximity (Avalanche, 4 Days) · Single-Dad Widower Hero (Mabel, 7) · Inheritance Plot (A Lodge She’s Never Seen) · Working-Class Mountain-Rescue Captain · Opposites Attract (Boston Attorney / Rugged Captain) · Found-Family Discovery · Career vs. Town · Halverson Resort-Group Threat Opens

Book Two — Simmer (June & Mateo)

“She was hired to gut his kitchen. He made her question everything she’d built.”

Simmer · June & Mateo

JUNE TANAKA walks into the only restaurant she’s ever loved as a tourist carrying a renovation plan that cuts its kitchen in half — wine storage, grab-and-go coolers, the heart of the place repackaged for guests who’ll never come back. She’s the architect the resort group sent to do it. MATEO REYES is the chef who’s spent years cooking his grandmother’s recipes in that kitchen, and he has no intention of handing it over. When her boss embeds himself at the lodge to watch their every move, the two of them strike a bargain: fake a flirtation obvious enough to keep him distracted from what’s really brewing.

Pretending to fall when they’re already halfway there turns every professional boundary into kindling. Mateo orders her wine without asking and refills her glass like he has a claim to her, and June’s careful control starts cracking under a man who sees straight past her armor. But the renovation deadline is closing in, her boss is hunting for the secret they’re hiding, and the town meeting is going to force her to choose between the career she fought for and the kitchen — and the man — worth saving.

Enemies-to-lovers lite with a fake-dating fuse, fast and public and impossible to take back. Mateo keeps his kitchen. June gets a town that chooses her back. And together they prove the best design honors what came before instead of erasing it.

Featured hooks · Enemies to Lovers (Lite) · Fake Dating (Workplace Performance) · Forced Proximity (Embedded Boss) · Grumpy / Sunshine (Controlled Architect, Passionate Chef) · Food as Love Language · Workplace Romance · Career vs. Love · Third-Act Town-Meeting Sacrifice

Book Three — Whiteout (Lila & Sam) · Series Capstone

“He left without a word. She built a life without him. Now he’s back — and staying could cost them both everything.”

Whiteout · Lila & Sam

LILA CASTILLO owns The Drop outright — years of late shifts and ruthlessly rebuilt credit after SAM HOLLOWAY walked out of Pine Hollow without looking back. She knows every regular’s order, can change a keg blindfolded, and runs the only bar in town that still feels like home. Then Sam slides onto his old barstool, seven years older and carrying the kind of silence that says he means to stay. Lila doesn’t serve ghosts. She pours him bourbon anyway.

The Olympic career is over, the condo is sold, and Pine Hollow is the only place that still feels like it could be home — if Lila will let him stay long enough to prove it. But the resort group offers Sam a deal to be the face of their rebrand, a deal that would seal the town’s fate, and it lands the same week her lease renewal does. Then they move to buy The Drop’s building out from under her, and Sam has to make the choice that will either burn his second chance or finally earn it.

Second chance at its most unforgiving — no grand gestures, no easy forgiveness. They choose each other the hardest way there is: publicly, irrevocably, with the whole town watching. Then they walk back to The Drop and figure out what seven years looks like when neither of them is running anymore.

Featured hooks · Second Chance (7 Years, No Word) · Heroine Who Rebuilt Herself · Hero Choosing Love Over Money · Public Declaration (Whole Town Watching) · Olympic-Career-Over Hero · Bar-Owner Heroine (The Drop) · Slow-Burn Rekindling · Series-Finale Save-the-Town Climax

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What You Get

Three reads away from your next binge-launch trilogy. ❤