The ridge line #969115

Some secrets build walls. Others tear them down.
Dr. Priya Anand came to the remote town of Ironwood Basin looking for quiet. Leaving behind the wreckage of a pediatric ER career in Denver, she expected routine physicals and minor injuries. What she finds instead is a community holding its collective breath, and a mysterious pattern of stress spreading among her new patients.
Ben Hatcher is the man Ironwood leans on. Whether he’s managing the family hardware store, raising his young sister, or pulling stranded hikers off the ridge with the Search and Rescue team, Ben never asks for help. But under the weight of his family’s grief and mounting debts, Ben made a private mistake—he signed a preliminary agreement to sell a parcel of their land. He didn’t know the buyer was a front for the very corporate predator that tried to destroy the valley last year.
As Priya joins the SAR team, an immediate, quiet understanding forms between her and the stoic rope specialist. They communicate in the language of efficiency, survival, and a growing, undeniable attraction. But as Priya’s medical deductions lead her straight to Ben’s doorstep, the truth threatens to fracture everything Ben is trying to protect.
In a town where the mountain doesn’t care who you are, surviving the elements is easy compared to surviving the truth. Can Ben learn to rely on the community he’s always protected before he loses it—and Priya—forever?
The Ridge Line is a gripping, emotional contemporary romance featuring a competent, fiercely protective hero, a brilliant medical heroine, high-stakes wilderness rescue operations, and a fiercely loyal small-town community. (No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed HEA).