Rugged Desires: Volume One

The first three novellas in the Rugged Desires series, collected in one volume. Over 64,000 words of high-heat MM romance set in the untamed corners of the American West.

Claimed by the Mountain Man

Deep in the Oregon wilderness, a heartbroken city boy stumbles into a reclusive mountain man's cabin just as a brutal storm seals them inside. With a single bed and a dwindling woodpile, Cole is trapped inches from a man who strips down without a second thought. A man who can't explain why he wants this shivering hiker to stay.

Ignited by the Smokejumper

In the fire-scorched mountains of Montana, a rookie smokejumper crashes into a river with a failed parachute. The gruff river guide who hauls him out and strips him down on a gravel bar hasn't saved a life since the last one ended on his watch. Now the mountainside is on fire and the only thing keeping either of them alive is each other.

Branded by the Rancher

On a hard-dirt Wyoming ranch under the Bighorns, a drifter with a gun under his flannel talks his way onto a grieving rancher's payroll. The rancher hasn't let anyone close since he buried his father in that same dirt. Between cut fences and a corrupt deputy, what started as a paycheck becomes something neither man can walk away from.

From burning ridgelines to open range where nothing stays buried for long, every story asks the same question: what happens when the man you weren't supposed to want is the only one worth staying for?