Rooted

He's spent ten years guarding a bond no one ever chose. She's spent eight years making sure no one gets close enough to leave.

Wren Calloway flies home to bury her grandfather and sell off his failing Christmas tree farm in a week, tops. Then she finds out she doesn't own it - not all of it. Half of Calloway Pines has belonged to her enormous, impossibly gentle neighbor for decades, and neither of them can sell without the other's say-so.

Korrath Bramwell has kept that farm alive for two years with his own two hands and never once asked for thanks. He's also kept a secret since the night Wren's headlights first swept across the fence line - the ancient tree at the heart of both their lands has finally chosen someone, and it isn't going to stay quiet for long.

Between a ninety-day mortgage deadline, a predatory land developer who wants them both gone, and a two-hundred-year-old pact that's about to upend everything either of them thought they knew about home, Wren and Korr have one holiday season to save the farm, the town, and maybe each other.

Rooted is a slow-burn, small-town holiday romance with a fated-mate bond, a grumpy-but-soft hero, a heroine who finally stops running, and a happily-ever-after romance enough to melt the snow. Sweet and steamy without a single explicit scene - perfect for readers who want their monster cozy.

Includes:

• Fated mates / bond trope


• Grumpy orc, sunshine heroine


• Small town, found family


• Inheritance & forced partnership


• Dual POV


• Closed-door - no explicit content


• Guaranteed group ever after