Independent romance fiction

Paper
Vow Press

Romance by Georgia Halden and Josie Alder.

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Contemporary love stories about capable people, difficult choices and the moment staying careful stops being enough.

The books

Three ways to lose
the careful plan.

Cover of What Holds in Winter by Georgia Halden

Pinewake Rescue, Book 1

What Holds in Winter

One dangerous winter. Twelve weeks side by side.

Emergency physician Tessa Ward comes to Pinewake, Colorado, to strengthen medical readiness for the county's volunteer mountain-rescue team. The assignment is temporary by design. She fixes difficult systems, keeps her exit open and moves on before any place can ask too much of her.

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Cover of What We Can Promise by Georgia Halden

Pinewake Rescue, Book 2

What We Can Promise

She trusts what people do. He refuses to promise what he cannot guarantee.

Dana Holt is the person Pinewake calls when a map is wrong, a rescue needs a field leader or someone has to make the plan work. She is good at being useful. Making room for something she simply wants, like the film camera she has kept boxed away, is harder.

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Cover of At the Waterline by Josie Alder

At the Waterline

She came to the coast for eight quiet weeks. She did not expect the man walking out of the water.

Sophie Ellis knows exactly who Adrian Cole is: a wealthy former Olympic swimmer whose face and body still appear in national campaigns. He also happens to be her summer neighbor.

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