Grumpy Libri GmbH Small Town Grumpy Sunshine- Grumpy Ex-Military Brewmaster's Secret

My fresh start rolled into town in a broken-down U-Haul, two eight-year-old twins in the back seat, and exactly eleven minutes to convince a stranger to hire me.

He almost said no.
Six-foot-something of scarred, silent ex-military, running a brewery like it's the only thing that's never once left him.
He keeps his receipts in a shoebox and a legal pad of every reason a relationship like this one won't work.
I fixed the first one. I never meant to go looking for the second.
He calls it a professional arrangement. I call it the way he watches me across a room like he already lost an argument he never let me hear him have.
One night snowed in together in a loft he's never once let another living soul into, and I stop pretending either of us believes that anymore.
But wait.
He's been quietly supporting his dead best friend's family for six years, anonymous, under a name that isn't his.
He doesn't think he's earned the right to be forgiven for the reason why.
My ex-husband isn't finished with me either, and every time Rafe steps between us, he digs the hole he's convinced he belongs in a little deeper.
He says love is just a longer way of losing someone.
He says the safest thing he can do for my kids is disappear before they need him to stay.
He just keeps showing up anyway, fixes what neither of us asked him to fix, and never once asks for the credit.
The night he finally told me about the ridge, and why he comes up here every year to say the truth out loud to a view instead of a person, he looked at me like it cost him something just to let me hear it. I did not look away.
He was not surprised.
This grieving, guarded, impossible man is tearing down every wall he built the day he decided guilt was safer than love.
>Grumpy Ex-Military Brewmaster's Secret is a steamy standalone small-town romance with a slow-burn grump, a heroine who saves herself, a wounded hero worth the wait, two scene-stealing twins, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cheating. No cliffhangers.