Axe Backwards (Maine Lumberjacks #4)
Daphne Elliot
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Explicit open door [?]
· 36 ratings · 369 pages · Published: 31 Jan 2025
When Noah Hebert swung his axe and rescued me from a coffee shop bathroom, I had only a vague sense of who the tattooed lumberjack was. Turns out he’s more than broad shoulders and a thick beard. He’s a devoted single dad and my new neighbor.
Soon after, we find ourselves falling into an easy friendship. I help him with his fussy baby, and he helps me survive my ex-husband and little sister’s wedding. Despite my vow never to risk my heart again, my defenses quickly crumble. The sight of him rocking his sweet baby in those muscular, inked arms only makes matters worse. And when he defends me to my toxic family, the sparks of attraction between us catch fire.
I moved back here with a mission. Grow the food pantry and make our little town a better place. I can’t get mixed up with the grieving single dad, even if he likes to braid my hair and slow dance in the kitchen.
He moved across the country to escape the flames of his past and protect the little girl he now calls his own. But our town is sitting on a bed of secrets ready to ignite.
And when the heat causes my world to go up in smoke, I’m not sure it’s possible to sift through the rubble and find our happily ever after.
Author’s Note: Axe Backwards is a standalone small-town romance featuring a bleeding-heart heroine, a lumberjack firefighter, and a cute baby. If you enjoy single dads, fake dating, small-town shenanigans, lumberjack competitions, and baby sign language, you will not be disappointed. Come for the wood chopping, stay for the moose!
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- friends to lovers 6
- single father 6
- men in uniform 5
- contemporary 5
- found family 5
- m-f romance 5
- suspense 4
- small town 4
- fake relationship 4
- forced proximity 3
- tortured hero 3
- cowboy hero 2
- hurt/comfort 2
- slow burn 2
- competent heroine 2
- independent heroine 2
- tortured heroine 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- curvy heroine 1
- neurodivergent mc 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- masc-dom 1
- caretaking 1
- spanking 1
- praise kink 1
- white collar heroine 1
- sunny/happy hero 1
- athlete hero 1
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- content warnings
- miscarriage / infertility 4
- death / grief 3
- abuse 2
- past abuse 2
- victim blaming 2
- past child neglect 1
- misogyny 1
- geography
- north america 2
- usa 2
- maine 2
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 3
- first person pov 2
- male pov 1
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The 'Maine Lumberjacks' series
3.93 · 164 ratings
dual-pov · sweet-hero · small town · north-america · first-person-pov · explicit-open-door · m-f · contemporary · audiobook · maine · competent heroine · usa · forced proximity · independent heroine · male-pov · strong heroine · friends to lovers · tortured hero · career professional · praise-kink
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