Wolf Hollow Air — A 5-Book Bush-Pilot Romance Series

WOLF HOLLOW AIR

A Five-Book Bush-Pilot Romance Series

5 Short Reads • Alternating First Person • HEA per Book + Series Crash-Mystery Arc

Five backcountry pilots who fly the most dangerous skies in Montana — and fall harder on the ground than they ever do in the air.

The Series

At the end of the road in the Bitterroot foothills, the Rourke family runs Wolf Hollow Air off a gravel strip and a hangar full of ghosts. Three years ago the man who built the company flew one rescue too many and didn’t come back, and the people he left behind have been circling that grief ever since — carrying each other, carrying the work, and never once letting themselves land. Then, one by one, somebody walks onto the strip who makes staying look braver than flying.

Told in close, fast dual POV, every book delivers the same promise: a rugged, competent hero who is gone the moment he sees her — he falls first, and he falls hard — set against snow, altitude, and a town that roots for them out loud. Instalove that earns its heat in the tight space of a short read, found family you’ll want to move to, and one slow-burning mystery that stitches all five happily-ever-afters into a single, satisfying landing.

Five short reads. Five he-falls-first heroes. One Montana family that finally, all of them, lands.

What’s Included in This Package

The Five Books

Book One — Hard Bank (Della & Wade)

“She flew toward the fire everyone else was fleeing. He’s the only pilot who landed to meet her.”

Hard Bank · Della & Wade

DELLA HARTWELL sank everything she had into a dead bakery in a town she’d never seen, and on opening week a wildfire jumps the pass and cuts Wolf Hollow off from the world. WADE ROURKE — eldest of the flying Rourkes, the man who’s carried his whole family since his father’s crash — drops his Beaver onto the strip behind her shop to tell her the runway is for emergencies, not pastries. Della informs him a town that can’t eat is an emergency. Neither of them backs down. Neither of them leaves.

With the road closed and the grocery padlocked, her bakery becomes the only kitchen in a stranded town and his plane its only lifeline — which means Wade is in her doorway ten times a day, smelling of smoke, eating standing up, falling for her against every rule he’s ever made. But Wade has spent three years deciding he’s not allowed to want anything for himself, and when the fire turns and the pass reopens, he reaches for duty like a man reaching for the controls — and pushes the one good thing away to keep it safe.

Grumpy-sunshine instalove at its most tender — a captain who’s never let himself land and the warm, stubborn woman who refuses to be anyone’s exception. It ends the way the best ones do: a man flying the hardest approach of his life back to a parking lot, a whole town watching through the glass, and a baker who makes him say it out loud, in daylight, for good.

Featured hooks · Grumpy / Sunshine · Instalove (Gone in the Ash) · Small-Town Newcomer (Stays When Everyone Flees) · Forced Proximity (Wildfire, Closed Road) · He Falls First · Bush Pilot Hero · Baker Heroine · Series Crash-Mystery Seeded

Book Two — Whiteout (Frankie & Silas)

“Two people convinced they’re safer alone, snowed in with one bed and nowhere left to hide.”

Whiteout · Frankie & Silas

FRANKIE DALE has spent a year disappearing from a man who won’t let her go, and a backcountry charter to a remote cabin is just one more place to not be found. SILAS ROURKE — middle brother, ex-combat pilot, certain he’s too dangerous to love — is supposed to drop her and fly home before the weather turns. The front moves faster than the forecast. The sky goes white. He sets the plane down on memory and instinct, and then it’s just the two of them, one woodstove, and one bed for days.

They recognize each other on sight — two people who sleep with their backs to the wall — and the cabin is too small for the lie that they don’t want this. Frankie sets every pace; Silas follows every one. But rescue is coming, and with it the real world — and the ex who has tracked her to Wolf Hollow. Frankie does the only thing she knows how to do to keep these people safe: she runs. And Silas, sure he’s the threat, almost lets her.

Forced-proximity heat at its most intense — the hottest book in the series and the most tender — two wrecked, careful people learning that needing someone made her a fortress, not a target. It lands on a dark road lit by the headlights of an entire town, a man who steps beside her instead of in front of her, and a duffel that finally, bravely, stays unpacked.

Featured hooks · Snowed-In Forced Proximity (One Cabin, One Storm) · Only One Bed · Instalust to Love · He Falls First (Walled-Off One Cracks) · On the Run / Mirrored Wounds · Ex-Combat Pilot Hero · The Hottest Book in the Series · Crash-Mystery Hunch Planted

Book Three — Holding Pattern (Etta & Hollis)

“He’s spent three years deciding he doesn’t get to be happy. She’s done being the one nobody worries about.”

Holding Pattern · Etta & Hollis

HOLLIS BRANDT is forty-six, co-owner of Wolf Hollow Air, the steady hand that held the Rourke family together after his best friend’s crash — and the man who was supposed to be on that flight. ETTA GARRETT is the county’s new search-and-rescue medic, twenty-eight, competent to the bone, tired of being everyone’s reliable set of hands and nobody’s want. The county pairs them as the primary winter SAR team. Most of the season, every brutal call, in one small cockpit.

In the air they’re seamless; on the ground he puts eighteen years and a dead man between them like a barricade. But Etta refuses to be a mistake or a secret — and when she finds a scrubbed maintenance squawk buried in the old crash report, she uncovers the penance Hollis has been serving in silence. The family learns about them at the worst possible moment, and Hollis does the noble, cowardly thing: he ends it for her own good.

Age-gap, forbidden-proximity romance at its most adult and aching — a grief-locked silver fox and the woman who decides, eyes open, to be worth worrying about. It lands on a frozen lake, a confession over a headset, and a family who forgave him years before he could forgive himself — the emotional hinge of the whole series.

Featured hooks · Age Gap (46 / 28, Named Head-On) · Forbidden / Family-Adjacent · Grumpy Silver Fox · He Falls First (The Rock Comes Apart) · Forced Proximity (Winter SAR Season) · Co-Owner of Wolf Hollow Hero · SAR Medic Heroine · Crash-Mystery Squawk Surfaces

Book Four — Crosswind (Maren & Beau)

“The baby of the family has spent his whole life proving he’s not the disappointment. She’s spent hers making sure her son never loves anyone who’ll leave.”

Crosswind · Maren & Beau

BEAU ROURKE — youngest, charming, never taken seriously — prangs a landing and gets grounded, sentenced to work off the repair bill stocking shelves at Sutton’s General Store. MAREN SUTTON runs the place alone, raising a plane-obsessed five-year-old named Theo and guarding a careful life with no room in it for a flyboy who lives to leave the ground. She’s seen exactly this kind of man before. He drove off and didn’t look back.

But Theo decides Beau hung the moon, and Beau — fixing the kid’s broken toy plane, showing up at five-fifteen every day — starts becoming the steady man he always pretended he wasn’t. When he’s finally cleared to fly again, Maren braces for the flyboy to vanish exactly as she always knew he would — and never expects him to choose the ground. He also finds something in the old maintenance logs that doesn’t add up, and refuses, for once, to let it go.

Single-mom, reformed-playboy romance with “he falls first” at its loudest — a man who learns his worth was never in the cockpit, and a guarded mother who lets herself be chosen out loud. It lands on a reworked flight schedule, a paper airplane that says I’m staying, and a little boy who finally gets to keep someone.

Featured hooks · Single-Mom Heroine (5-Year-Old Theo) · Reformed Playboy · He Falls First (Loudest in the Series) · Forced Proximity (Grounded Behind Her Counter) · Instalove (Kid-Adjacent, Slow-Realized) · Youngest Brother Hero · General-Store Heroine · Crash-Mystery Log Photographed

Book Five — Final Approach (Jo & Knox) · Series Capstone

“She left to become a woman who couldn’t be hurt. He stayed and never believed he belonged. The truth about the crash is going to break this family open — or finally let them all land.”

Final Approach · Jo & Knox

KNOX ROURKE was fostered into the Rourkes at sixteen and has braced every day since for the moment they take it back. JO PRUITT is the federal aviation investigator who drives back into Wolf Hollow to reopen the crash that killed the man who raised him — and she’s also the first love who left him a decade ago. Wade assigns Knox to fly her to the wreckage and the backcountry waypoints. Day after day, just the two of them and ten years of everything they never said.

As the investigation narrows — Frankie’s old hunch, Etta’s archived squawk, Beau’s photographed log — the truth assembles into something worse and more human than pilot error, with more than one name on it. When it finally comes out, grief turns cruel and Knox’s deepest fear arrives: cast out of the only family he’s ever had, on the same night he let himself love Jo again.

Second-chance romance and found-family capstone in one — the book that resolves the series mystery and heals the wound under all five stories. It lands on a confession at first light, a family that chooses each other with the ugly truth in the room, an outsider who finally believes he’s home, and the whole Rourke clan in one room with every last one of them landed.

Featured hooks · Second Chance (10 Years and a Goodbye Later) · Forced Proximity (Flying the Investigation) · Found-Family Capstone · He Falls First (Decisively, for Good) · Reunion / The One Who Left · Fostered-In Hero · Federal Aviation Investigator Heroine · Series-Mystery Resolution

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Five reads away from your next binge-launch series. ❤