Hard Mountain Hotshots: Grinding Axe

By Beck Daniels

AXE
I keep my world small. My business, my crew, the mountain. No complications. Fighting wildland fires half the year and running the mill the other half is simple. Until it isn't. Carly Shaffer blows all of that up when she walks into the lodge.

She's a city-girl accountant with a mouth on her and curves that are seriously testing every year of discipline the Rangers drilled into me. Even worse, she's asking questions that are making the wrong people nervous. She should turn tail and run the second she gets a feel for the Hard Mountains. Instead, she's digging into secrets, riling up the locals, and pushing my buttons.

I tried to scare her off. Tried to keep my distance. But when a blizzard traps us in my cabin, keeping my hands off her stops being an option.

CARLY
My whole life, I've been "too much." Too loud. Too opinionated. Too thick. So I moved two thousand miles to escape the noise.

But that's not what happens. Life gets louder than ever when I stumble onto a fraud scheme buried in the lodge's books and into the arms of a gruff, gorgeous mountain man who kisses me like a warning and then tells me to forget it ever happened. Axe Stenson is guarded, gruff, and convinced he's poison. He thinks keeping his distance will keep me safe.

He's wrong.

He's the first man who's ever told me I'm exactly enough. And I'm done shrinking.

Hard Mountain Hotshots: Grinding Axe is a high-heat, small-town romance featuring an age gap, forced proximity, and a surly ex-military hero brought to his knees by the curvy accountant who refuses to stay quiet. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL33BHKZ
• ISBN13: 9798246421888
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"