Snowed In With Daddy's Best Friend

I'm her father's best friend. She's twenty years younger. One blizzard locks us in with one bed.

Nora
I drove the long way up a closing mountain to hand him the last box of my dead father's things — and to stop pretending I don't want the one man I was never allowed to have. I've caught Silas looking at me since I was twenty-one. I'm done being the only one who'll admit what it means.

Silas
I made her father a promise at his deathbed: keep her safe. I never told him the truth — that I've wanted his daughter for three years, and I built my whole life into a wall to keep my hands off her. Then the pass closes, the power dies, and there's nowhere left to hide.

Three days snowed in. One bed. A dead man's promise between us — and a line that's already breaking.

Forbidden, explicit, and aching all the way down — a snowed-in age-gap short with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. He falls first. He falls hardest. And he's not letting her drive back down that mountain.

Tropes: Age Gap • Dad's Best Friend • Forbidden Romance • Snowed-In / Forced Proximity • He Falls First • Possessive Mountain Man • Praise Kink • Grief & Healing • Guaranteed HEA

Heat Level: Explicit (Open-Door) │ Tone: Emotional, Angsty │ Series Type: Interconnected Standalone (Quartz Creek, Book 1) │ Ending: HEA │ POV: Dual / First Person, Present Tense │ Content Notes: Age gap, praise kink, grief/loss; enthusiastic consent, no dubcon

Perfect for readers who love forbidden age-gap heat, snowed-in mountain men, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.