Lumberjack DADDY

Eli
Having been to war, having seen men killed and having killed men in return, all I wanted was to live out my days surrounded by the peace and tranquility of the woods I’ve called my home since I rotated out.
If not for needing an income, I never would have rented out the cabins on my property. I would have preferred never seeing another living soul again, if I could help it.
But not being independently wealthy, I did what I had to do.
That was how I met Emery Pierce. Not that I wanted to. But she rented one of my cabins, so it seemed inevitable that our paths would eventually cross.
I did all I could to mitigate the chance, but fate sometimes has a strange way of intervening and putting something—or somebody—in your path you never knew you needed. Or wanted.
I have never been able to ignore a damsel in distress, so when Emery finds herself the target of a stalker, I have no choice but to intervene. Our paths get tangled and twisted up, and I find myself stepping in to defend.
And in doing so, my entire world is upended and forever changed.
All because of the girl in Cabin B.

Emery
All I wanted was some peace and quiet, far away from my old life. All I wanted was a place to heal. Coming out of a terribly abusive relationship, I just needed a place to hide to work on myself and find joy not just in my art, but in life again. It’s why I rented a cabin out in the middle of nowhere. It was about as far from my old life as I could get.
That was how I met Eli Proctor, a brusque, angry, humorless man.
He kept me at an arm’s length—and would have kept me farther away if he’d been able. He was one of the gruffest people I’ve ever met, but the closer I looked, the more I saw it for what it was… a façade.
Eli is a man haunted by his past—a past that continues to cause him pain. I didn’t think he was running from people so much as he was running from himself.
But he wouldn’t let me get close to him. Not until I find myself in the crosshairs of a man with bad intentions.
Like a knight on horseback, Eli charges in to fight, putting himself in harm’s way for me. And in doing so, he turns my entire innocent life and my heart upside down.

Without even seeming to realize it, Eli changes my whole world and how I see myself forever.