Knot on My Watch
MM Romance
by Jace Wilder
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Fake Engagement, Age Gap, Snowed In, One Bed, Praise Kink, Firefighter Romance, Rescue Dog, Caretaking, Found Family
His lodge is built for weddings. His heart is built for emergencies. Neither is prepared for the wedding planner who turns both upside down.
Rory Bell can save any wedding — except possibly this one. A missing business partner, a blizzard, and a bride with four million followers are bad enough. Then his cabin floods, forcing him to share a room with Knotty Pines Lodge owner Leo Mercer: a gruff former firefighter with scarred hands, a rescue dog with no boundaries, and strong opinions about everything Rory is doing wrong.
Leo Mercer has survived burning buildings, a career-ending injury, and one spectacularly failed marriage. He will not be undone by a perfectly dressed wedding planner with anxious eyes and a talent for making disaster look beautiful.
But when someone begins sabotaging the celebration — and a viral video makes the internet ship them as enemies-to-lovers — the only way to protect Rory’s career is a fake engagement that feels dangerously real.
One shared room. One elaborate lie. One blizzard that refuses to end. Falling for each other was never part of the plan.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Grumpy firefighter x anxious wedding planner
✅ Forced proximity with one shared bed
✅ Fake engagement that becomes devastatingly real
✅ Age gap (43/31) with mature emotional depth
✅ A one-eyed rescue dog who chooses for both of them
✅ Snowed-in lodge with found family energy
✅ Praise kink, caretaking, and explicit on-page heat (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️)
✅ Dual first-person POV
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes), strong language, financial fraud/identity theft themes, and depictions of anxiety and emotional burnout. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: Rory
The GPS told me I’d arrived at my destination, which was generous of it, because my destination appeared to be a wall of white nothing.
I leaned forward against the steering wheel of my rental and stared through the windshield at what I could generously describe as weather. Snow wasn’t falling so much as being hurled sideways by a wind that seemed personally offended by my existence.
My phone buzzed. Again.
I glanced at the screen wedged in the cupholder. Seventeen unread messages. Four from Sloane Whitaker, bride, lifestyle content creator, woman with four million followers who expected a winter wonderland wedding and was about to get a winter apocalypse instead.
Zero from Dani. That was consistent, at least.
I pulled the car forward another hundred feet and the trees opened up, and there it was.
Knotty Pines Lodge.
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Blueprints — A scene TOO HOT for the retailers
Three months after the wedding weekend, Rory and Leo are renovating their cottage. The bedroom is finished. The kitchen is not. The tile argument is ongoing. And when the door closes and the dog is exiled to his own room, the christening begins.
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