I came to Ember Falls to start over — not to fall for the brooding, impossibly stubborn mountain man who won’t even look me in the eye.
My grandmother left me a cottage in a tiny Cascades town I never knew existed, and I’m determined to turn it into a fresh start: new home, new bakery, new life. But Jonah Holloway is everywhere — scowling at me from his porch, carrying my bags without being asked, and sending anonymous deliveries to my shop like some kind of grumpy lumberjack guardian angel. He runs hot and cold, walls up, jaw clenched, and I should walk away. Except something about this town feels like the home I’ve been aching for my whole life. And something about him feels like the missing piece I didn’t know I was looking for.
The moment she drove into Ember Falls, I knew what she was. Mine.
Fated mate — the one thing I swore would never happen. I’ve spent fourteen years keeping my family safe, keeping our secrets buried, and keeping everyone at arm’s length. I don’t get to want her. She’s human. She doesn’t know what I am, what this town really is, or why her grandmother kept a locked box and a shelf full of dog-eared wildlife guides. But Lena Marsh walks around smelling like vanilla and warm stone and hope, and my bear doesn’t care about secrets. He just knows she’s ours. And every day I don’t tell her the truth is another day I’m building something beautiful on a lie.
A grumpy bear shifter who’d rather crack a porch railing than admit he’s falling. A sunshine baker who’s never stayed anywhere long enough to fight for it. A fated mate bond that won’t be ignored, a town full of secrets, and a grandmother’s legacy that will change everything Lena thought she knew about who she is. Where the Embers Fall is a grumpy/sunshine, fated mates, small-town shifter romance with a swoon-worthy alpha hero, cozy autumn vibes, and an HEA that will make you want to move to the mountains and never leave.
