Come As You Are (Bluebird Basin #1)
Jess K. Hardy
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
4.12
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 38 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 01 Nov 2022
Ashley Cooke will do just about anything to save her struggling ski hill. When she hires the men from a local sober living home for the season to cut costs, even she thinks she’s gone too far. With her credit cards maxed, her cheating ex-husband intent on buying the mountain out from under her, and record-breaking snow in the forecast, she can’t afford to be distracted by the six-foot-tall bearded and tattooed sober living home owner moving onto her mountain.
Recovering addict and ex-grunge rocker Matthew Madigan has devoted every minute of the last decade to the men residing at his sober living home. When he meets tightly wound and adorably flustered Ashley, desires he’s put on the back burner for years start to simmer. Immune to his infamous albeit rusty charm, Ashley presents a challenge he can’t resist. When she offers to give him skiing lessons in exchange for his help training her St. Bernard rescue dog, he jumps at the chance to ride next to her on the chairlift despite his debilitating fear of heights.
During bunny hill shenanigans, chairlift confessions, and steamy cabin serenades, Madigan teaches Ashley that a person’s past doesn’t define them, and Ashley shows Madigan that the men he helps aren’t the only people who deserve a second chance. When sabotage threatens both the men and the mountain, Ashley and Madigan will have to decide if they’re only having a winter fling, or if the mountain isn’t the only thing worth fighting for.
Content Notes: Addiction, divorce, mourning loss of parent
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Tagged as:
- older/mature 14
- contemporary 13
- single mother 11
- boss & employee 8
- dual pov 7
- workplace/office 7
- forced proximity 6
- independent heroine 5
- third person pov 5
- m-f romance 5
- funny 4
- competent heroine 3
- rockstar hero 3
- sports 2
- working class heroine 2
- found family 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- tortured hero 2
- angst 2
- christmas 1
- poor heroine 1
- slow burn 1
- small town 1
- silver fox 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- substance abuse 8
- death / grief 1
- alcoholism 1
- drug abuse 1
- geography
- montana 3
- north america 1
- usa 1
romance tags
The 'Bluebird Basin' series
4.32 · 66 ratings
explicit-open-door · substance abuse · contemporary · small town · m-f · working class heroine · sweet-hero · single-mother · montana · usa · alcoholism · independent heroine · rockstars · humor · mature couple · drug-abuse
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