The Beard Between Us

Millie Hart came to Timber Falls for one reason: rescue the town's struggling Lumber & Beard Festival, rebuild her career, and get back to Denver before anyone convinces her that flannel counts as formalwear. Then her rental gets stuck in the snow, and Griffin Mercer pulls her out. Griff is a third-generation timber man, cabin builder, and reluctant president of the Timber Falls Beard Club. He likes quiet mornings, honest work, and a town that does not need some big-city event planner telling it how to be charming. Unfortunately, Millie is exactly that planner. Their first disagreement is over whether the festival's beard competition should survive. Their second is over nearly everything else. But as Millie discovers that the Beard Club's ridiculous traditions hide a fiercely loyal community, and Griff discovers that the woman with the color-coded plans is brave, funny, and far harder to forget than he wants, irritation turns into attraction. Then a snowstorm leaves them stranded together, and all their carefully drawn lines start disappearing. With Millie's dream job waiting in Denver and Timber Falls becoming harder to leave by the day, she has to decide what success actually looks like—and Griff has to decide whether loving someone means letting her go. The Beard Between Us is a warm, funny mountain-town romance featuring a bearded lumberjack, a city-girl heroine, opposites attract, forced proximity, found family, snowed-in sparks, and a happily-ever-after.