When The Mountains Held Us: A Small-Town Mountain Romance (North Creek Series Book 1)

Oakley thought leaving her abusive ex was the hardest thing she would have to do.

Fleeing from her past with nothing but a few meager belongings and a dream, she finds shelter in the small mountain town of North Creek. Nestled in the heart of the Adirondack mountains, teeming with wildlife, breath-taking sunsets and trails that wind endlessly through towering pines, she thinks she may finally have found the peace she’s been searching for all along.

Then she meets Levi.

Rugged and fiercely protective with eyes that rival the pines, Levi, along with a few of his friends, welcome Oakley into town with open arms and quiet encouragement to become who she was meant to be all along. Between the long hikes and hushed conversations, Oakley begins to lower the walls around her and open up in a way she hasn’t in a long, long time. She’s drawn to Levi in a way she can’t explain— and can’t resist.

But Levi has a dark past of his own.

Haunted by the fear of becoming the very monster he fought to survive, he’s spent years building the walls around his heart brick by brick. But the more time he spends with Oakley and the more he sees his own broken self reflected in her blue-gray eyes, the more those walls begin to crumble.

Just when the tension sparking between them ignites into something neither of them can deny, Oakley’s past reappears with a vengeance, threatening to shatter the fragile life she’s only just begun to build.

In the shadows of the mountains that healed them both, Oakley and Levi must decide if love is worth the risk, or if some scars are too deep to heal.