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Hard Wood, Soft Landing

An MM Contemporary Romance — by Jace Wilder

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The Details

Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Length: ~85,000 words
Distribution: Wide — All Major Retailers

Tropes

  • Second Chance (Former Almosts)
  • Forced Proximity
  • Home Renovation
  • Single Dad
  • Small Town
  • Grumpy/Sunshine Reversal
  • Found Family
  • Competence Porn
  • Praise Kink
  • Body Worship
  • Blue Collar / White Collar

Miles Hart can make any room beautiful. He just can’t seem to make his own life work.

After a divorce, a public design disaster, and the death of the grandmother who loved him best, Miles returns to Pine Ridge to sell the crumbling lakeside inn he inherited. The plan: renovate it fast, make it presentable, and disappear before anyone sees how badly everything fell apart.

Then he hires Callum Bennett.

Cal is the contractor Miles almost kissed at eighteen — and the man who’s spent the last two decades getting broader, gruffer, better with a tool belt, and far too good at seeing through him. He’s also got an eight-year-old daughter who thinks Miles is “too pretty to be trustworthy,” a dog he rescued from a job site, and zero interest in helping Miles turn Heartwood House into another glossy project with no real foundation.

But the inn is hiding secrets. Someone wants it sold cheap. And as Cal and Miles strip the house to its bones, the past they never finished starts demanding a second chance.

Rebuilding an old house is one thing. Learning to stay is another.

Hard Wood, Soft Landing is a steamy, full-length MM contemporary romance featuring a designer who’s forgotten how to stop performing, a contractor who’s forgotten how to ask for what he wants, an eight-year-old with strong opinions about structural integrity, and enough heat to strip the wallpaper. HEA guaranteed.

You’ll love this if you enjoy:

✓ Former almosts who get a second shot twenty years later — and earn every inch of it
✓ A polished designer who falls apart beautifully and a grounded contractor who catches him
✓ Blue-collar/white-collar dynamics with real tension, not aesthetic
✓ A single dad whose eight-year-old daughter runs background checks via evidence notebook
✓ Forced proximity in a carriage-house apartment with one bedroom and a couch that’s too short
✓ Heat 5/5 — guest room, workbench, kitchen counter, the room they built together
✓ Found family with co-parenting done right, a foreman who saw it coming, and a grandmother who played the longest game
✓ HEA with a business partnership, a bronze plaque, and a ghost named Gerald

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Content Notes

Adult MM romance, 18+. Explicit on-page sexual content (heat 5/5, multiple positions and dynamics including topping/bottoming, oral, praise kink, body worship, domestic intimacy). Second-chance arc with unresolved abandonment. References to a previous controlling marriage (emotional manipulation — off-page, in backstory). Public professional failure and online harassment. A corrupt developer attempting property manipulation. Brief discussions of parental death (grandmother, off-page). HEA guaranteed with epilogue.

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