Welcome back to Western Massachusetts, where the coffee's strong, the winters are long, and second chances come with a side of takedowns.
Dean Hollis has spent eight years keeping Maple Hill's Riverside Park running—the job that saved him after wrestling didn't. One more insurance disaster and it's gone. Then a runner with amber eyes and combat training that doesn't match her cover story starts showing up every morning. She sees trouble before it happens. She handles it before anyone else moves. And she's definitely not explaining the jiu-jitsu.
Leona Walsh came home to disappear—not to rescue a crumbling rec center, teach self-defense to kids the system forgot, or fall for a stubborn parks supervisor who won't stop showing up with coffee and questions she's not ready to answer.
Together they're building something worth fighting for. The question is whether Leona's past will let them keep it.
Ringside is a standalone small-town romance with a hard-won HEA, working-class heart, and heat that earns every moment. Book 2 in the Forge Sparks series—no cliffhanger, all the feels.