Timber Line

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He spent forty-five years surviving. He didn’t start living until a twenty-four-year-old lumberjack burned it all down.

Judson Lang is forty-five, massive, bearded, and entirely consumed by his job running a brutal timber camp deep in the Pacific Northwest. He’s lived a quiet, straight life. Never married. Never needed anyone. The mountain was enough.

Then Levi Torres shows up — twenty-four, openly gay, tattooed, and working like a machine. He’s not hiding. He’s not performing. He’s just there, stripping his sweat-soaked shirt at the end of every shift, and Judson can’t stop staring.

When a brutal avalanche traps them alone in a tiny supply cabin, the freezing temperatures force a physical closeness that triggers something Judson has no framework for. One cot. Minus twenty. Two layers of thermal cotton between his body and the man who is systematically dismantling everything he thought he knew about himself.

What starts as survival becomes addiction. Stolen hours in maintenance sheds. Desperate midnight meetings in truck cabs. A secret so hot it could burn the camp down — and a crew that’s starting to notice the foreman can’t keep his eyes off the new hire.

But the mountain doesn’t forgive weakness. When a near-fatal accident exposes the depth of Judson’s feelings in front of the entire crew, he makes the worst decision of his life — and the man he loves pays the price.

Now Judson has to choose: the safe, dead life he’s been living for twenty-three years, or the terrifying, incandescent, completely unprecedented experience of loving someone enough to burn it all down and chase them off the mountain.

You’ll love this if you enjoy:

✓ A rigidly straight 45-year-old man having a full sexual and emotional awakening
✓ A confident, unapologetic younger man who knows exactly the effect he has
✓ Forced proximity — one cot, one blanket, one blizzard, nowhere to hide
✓ Blue collar grit — chainsaws, flannel, diesel, and the smell of pine
✓ A grumpy/sunshine dynamic where sunshine has teeth
✓ Secret relationship tension that ratchets tighter every chapter
✓ A public declaration of love in a dive bar while Springsteen plays
✓ Heat that escalates from confused solo to transcendent together
✓ A guaranteed happily ever after earned on and off the mountain

Timber Line is a 72,000-word high-heat MM gay awakening romance featuring a man who spent his whole life not knowing what he wanted and a man brave enough to show him. Dual first-person POV. Standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.