Pine Ridge Promises: Book 1: Sawdust & Sparks

She came home to settle the past. He stayed to build a future. But the sparks between them might just burn it all down—or light the way forward.

When Silicon Valley programmer Claire Brennan inherits her late uncle’s crumbling mountain motel, she trades deadlines and demo decks for leaky plumbing and sagging porch beams. Her plan? Renovate the Spruce Top just enough to sell it and get back to her carefully coded life.

Then she meets Logan Hale.

He’s the flannel-wearing, tool-belt-slinging carpenter her uncle hired before he passed—and the walking complication Claire didn’t budget for. Steady, kind, and infuriatingly attractive, Logan offers to help her fix the place in time for Pine Ridge’s biggest tourist event. The problem? The motel isn’t the only thing at risk of falling apart.

As claw-foot tubs, cinnamon rolls, and late-night bonfires give way to deeper feelings, Claire finds herself torn between the career she’s built and the small-town life she thought she left behind. And Logan… well, he’s keeping a secret of his own—one that could send everything crashing down just as they're about to fly.

Set against the misty mountains and quirky charm of Pine Ridge, Sawdust & Sparks is the first book in the Pine Ridge Promises series which is a heartfelt romance about second chances, fixer-uppers, and falling for the one person who makes you want to stay.

Perfect for fans of emotional slow-burns, flirty banter, renovation hijinks, and heroes who know their way around a hammer—and a broken heart.