Hearts & Hard Hats: A Tinsel Town Valentine
Marc Fist
It’s called being careful.
It’s not going well.
Because Hugh is not, by nature, a man who measures twice and cuts once. Hugh is a man who improvises with glitter and optimism and a hot glue gun he definitely should not be trusted with.
But Felix Stone is still here.
Felix Stone is still watching.
And after the archive kiss, the denial, the cold professionalism, and the way Felix keeps pulling back like Hugh is a structural hazard he can’t afford to want…
Hugh decides he’s done being treated like a liability.
So he puts on a hard hat.
A ridiculous hard hat. A rhinestone encrusted hard hat.
He buys real steel-toed boots instead of borrowing Daniel’s paint-stained pair. He triple-checks measurements. He follows the code like it’s scripture.
He builds the sparkler distribution stations by the book.
Not because Felix demanded it.
Because Hugh wants Felix to understand
Joy doesn’t have to be dangerous.
Beauty doesn’t have to be reckless.
And loving Hugh Everhart doesn’t have to end in disaster.
But Felix has his own ghosts.
A fire. A tragedy. A promise he made years ago that he would never bend, never break, never let chaos get anyone hurt again.
And the closer Hugh gets to proving he can be both things… joyful and safe…
…the harder Felix fights the truth he’s terrified to
Hugh isn’t the liability.
Hugh is the first thing in years that has made Felix want to live.
HEARTS & HARD HATS is a high-heat MM small-town romance full of grumpy/sunshine tension, emotional push-pull, competence kink, “I’m trying” tenderness, and the slow destruction of a man who built his whole life out of restraint.
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