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The GRUMPY Sheriff
I’m a billionaire heiress. How do I end up falling for the GRUMPY Sheriff who physically throws me back from a collapsing cliff?
The last man I need in my life is Dean Dakota. He’s La Jolla’s GRUMPY Sheriff, Impossible to impress, and completely immune to my family’s money, influence, and carefully organized life. We grew up together.
Then the cliff collapses beneath me.
One second I’m making a toast. The next, Dean has his arm around my waist and is tossing me like a rag doll to safety in front of hundreds of gala guests.
From the photos, the internet thinks we belong together. How irritating!
Then I watch him run toward more danger while everyone else runs away.
Arguments become late-night conversations.
A stolen kiss becomes impossible to forget.
And somewhere between disaster briefings and harbor walks, I fall completely in love.
A ruthless developer targets my grand hotel. Then a one-time-in-history cyclone turns from Baja to La Jolla.
I hold four aces up my sleeve
As the cyclone rips our coastline, Dean risks his life continuously to save the town.
But if I can’t stop what’s coming from the developer, I won’t just lose the future we’re building.
I’ll lose the only man I’ve ever loved.
The last man I need in my life is Dean Dakota. He’s La Jolla’s GRUMPY Sheriff, Impossible to impress, and completely immune to my family’s money, influence, and carefully organized life. We grew up together.
Then the cliff collapses beneath me.
One second I’m making a toast. The next, Dean has his arm around my waist and is tossing me like a rag doll to safety in front of hundreds of gala guests.
From the photos, the internet thinks we belong together. How irritating!
Then I watch him run toward more danger while everyone else runs away.
Arguments become late-night conversations.
A stolen kiss becomes impossible to forget.
And somewhere between disaster briefings and harbor walks, I fall completely in love.
A ruthless developer targets my grand hotel. Then a one-time-in-history cyclone turns from Baja to La Jolla.
I hold four aces up my sleeve
As the cyclone rips our coastline, Dean risks his life continuously to save the town.
But if I can’t stop what’s coming from the developer, I won’t just lose the future we’re building.
I’ll lose the only man I’ve ever loved.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2026
About the author
Mia Cross
37 books6 followersMia Cross writes clean romances filled with passion, adventure, and the places she knows by heart.
She lives minutes from La Jolla, Oceanside, and Poway, California, the settings of her novels. She surfs at La Jolla and Point Loma, dines in Oceanside and Solana beach, and goes to church in Poway, bringing vivid and authentic details of local life to every story.
Her first book, Poems, was published when she was nine. Today, she can fly any airplane, play any musical instrument, and write a full novel in a week.
Mia writes without any AI, crafting her stories through stream of consciousness and meticulous editing. For one recent romance, she wrote a 20k word novel in 18 straight hours. She spends a month per book making every word count.
Whether writing about a farmer, a lifeguard or a pilot, her books are always clean, yet full of fearless energy, passion, and wild adventure.
Above all, Mia adores God, her family, and her dear readers.
She lives minutes from La Jolla, Oceanside, and Poway, California, the settings of her novels. She surfs at La Jolla and Point Loma, dines in Oceanside and Solana beach, and goes to church in Poway, bringing vivid and authentic details of local life to every story.
Her first book, Poems, was published when she was nine. Today, she can fly any airplane, play any musical instrument, and write a full novel in a week.
Mia writes without any AI, crafting her stories through stream of consciousness and meticulous editing. For one recent romance, she wrote a 20k word novel in 18 straight hours. She spends a month per book making every word count.
Whether writing about a farmer, a lifeguard or a pilot, her books are always clean, yet full of fearless energy, passion, and wild adventure.
Above all, Mia adores God, her family, and her dear readers.
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