What We Ask of Love

She knows how to keep a road open and a rescue team moving. At home, she has learned to ask once, then get on with things herself. Owen Pryce makes that harder. After two years working beside him on Pinewake’s rescue team, she wants more than his company on a mountain.

Owen is a finish carpenter with three jobs underway and more plans than hours. He likes Mika’s dry humor, the books she lends him and the way she tells him when he is moving too fast. Quiet evenings become nights together. He says he loves her before she is ready to say it back.

With a new job and a crew counting on her, Mika asks Owen for one whole morning. He promises. Then he gives part of it away.

Owen thinks he can make it up to her. Mika has spent too many years accepting whatever time people have left. As the days they wanted together slip away, he needs to give her something she can believe in. She needs to decide whether asking again would be courage or another mistake.

What We Ask of Love is Book 4 in the Pinewake Rescue series. It can be read as a standalone and includes explicit intimacy and a complete happily ever after.