Her cookies were only the second sweetest thing I got my mouth on! —Felicity—Moving to the mountains and setting up a small ranch fulfilled one of my dreams. The calm, peaceful existence was exactly the way I wanted to live my life. Until the sexiest, brawniest thief ever tried to steal one of my goats. But situations aren’t always as they seem, and confronting him got me a lot more than my goat back. —Trapper—My new neighbor kept to herself, and that was exactly how I wanted it. As long as she stayed on her side of the hill, I would happily keep to mine. That had been the plan anyway, until I saw her and my entire future unfolded before my eyes. Unfortunately, every time I tried to help her, she turned me down. A dirty-sweet, insta-love, short story romance!

The way he looked at me in the pasta aisle had me ready to slurp noodles with him. —Carly—Twisting my ankle on a mountain trail was bad enough. Having a stranger offer to help me just made it embarrassing. But when he knew my name before I told him… I should have been worried. And where had he come from? Was I so enamored by the mountain man’s rugged good looks that I would let myself slip into a fantasy world where creepers didn’t exist? —Gunner—I was doing my best not to interfere with the city slicker who moved onto the other side of the mountain ridge. And my best involved making sure the property line was clearly fenced. But I couldn’t pretend I didn’t hear her scream. And when I found her sitting in the dirt, I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t whole-heartedly attracted to her. Was I going to be able to restrain myself long enough to get her to trust me? How would I know when the time was right to profess my love? A dirty-sweet, insta-love, short story romance!

I made s'mores so she'd fall for me. Instead, she fell on me! —Amanda—With forty acres in the Colorado mountains to call my own, I didn’t have a lot of neighbors. So when one came walking onto my property, I probably shouldn’t have told him off. Especially since there wasn’t a huge selection of eligible bachelors in the small town, and he had to be the most attractive neighbor I’d ever had. If I hadn’t told him off so firmly, perhaps it would have been less embarrassing to find out I was wrong. And if I could have done something other than embarrass myself around him, that would have been spectacular. But if anyone had tried to tell me that keeping my distance was a good thing, I would have balked, until I remembered that being the new girl in town had its drawbacks, namely, I didn’t know his reputation. But reputations catch up with you. —Jagger—My new neighbor was the last person I wanted to see on my property. But naked, that was a different story. There was something different about her and I wished she would relax enough with me to have an encounter that didn’t result in her running away. But when she decided to believe the rumor mill, I worried she wasn’t the right woman for me. Or maybe the rumor had hit on a raw nerve for her? Would she give me a chance to explain?