Braving the Storm (Crimson Ridge #2)
Elliott Rose
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
4.19
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 62 ratings · 432 pages · Published: 13 Nov 2024

I’m not supposed to feel this way…
I never wanted to disappear more than while around my family. Briar Lane, the girl only useful for one thing: my surname.
A business handshake and pawn to be traded. My father’s chess piece shuffled between empires. That was my life back in L.A. but all it took was finding the dirty secret stuffed in a jacket pocket, and my entire world unraveled.
So, I fled to the one place I knew they could never find me. Crimson Ridge.
Arriving in this snowy, harsh world, I thought I’d be starting over on my own, but it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. The abandoned mountain cabin I inherited isn’t what it seems.
This mountain hides secrets. An ex-pro bull rider consumes this space, and now, my every thought with it... Stôrmand Lane. My father’s adopted brother.
We should never have found ourselves isolated out here in the mountains together, each trying to outrun our pasts.
All it took was one misunderstanding, one line almost crossed, and everything changed.
A girl like me isn’t supposed to know what those tattooed hands feel like, and I’m certainly not meant to feel butterflies anytime that pair of piercing blue eyes land on mine.
He might be my every fantasy, a cowboy I constantly dream about, but he’s a temptation I have to ignore. A man I absolutely cannot find myself attracted to.
Even when he’s looking at me with the kind of hunger that can only spell ruin for us both.
Long, dark nights spent in this tiny cabin can’t be the excuse to step into forbidden territory.
Or can they?
Braving The Storm is an interconnected stand-alone, book 2 in the Crimson Ridge series, and can be read separately. Intended for ages 18 and over.
Tagged as:
- cowboy hero 15
- m-f romance 13
- contemporary 11
- age gap 11
- forced proximity 11
- secret relationship 11
- small town 10
- western 9
- forbidden love 9
- dual pov 9
- somnophilia 8
- grumpy/cold hero 8
- first person pov 7
- alpha male 6
- curvy heroine 6
- male pov 6
- childfree 6
- rich heroine 6
- anal sex 6
- praise kink 6
- height difference 5
- possessive hero 5
- fetish 4
- new adult 3
- sweet/gentle heroine 3
- bad boys 2
- tortured heroine 2
- bdsm 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- consensual non-consent 1
- double penetration 1
- caretaking 1
- tortured hero 1
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- geography
- usa 8
- north america 6
- montana 6
- content warnings
- victim blaming 6
- suicide / ideation 5
- mental trauma 4
- alcoholism 2
- past abuse 1
- death / grief 1
- animal abuse 1
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The 'Crimson Ridge' series
273 ratings 4.11 ·
erotica · cowboys · forced proximity · western · new adult · age difference · usa · small town · secret-relationship · cold hero · first-person-pov · dual-pov · m-f · forbidden love · montana · explicit-plentiful · contemporary · independent heroine · praise-kink · grumpy sunshine
Crimson Ridge reading order and complete book list ❯