Annelie Svensson has summited every mountain that tried to kill her, outlasted six competent lovers who bored her into existential crisis, and spent fifteen years chasing a wanting she can't name up vertical surfaces that offer no comment.
Then something in a Kathmandu hotel room touches her neck in the dark. While she's topless. Something enormous and invisible that traces her shoulder to her throat like it's reading braille written on her skin and wants to take its time with the good paragraphs.
She should be terrified. Her body's considered response come back.
Her body is not taking feedback at this time.
Kel is eight feet tall, ancient, covered in white fur, and the last surviving guardian of a dying Himalayan crystal system. He does not receive visitors. He did not invite her. He would also like her to move two metres to the left, because she is standing on a section of path that requires resurfacing.
He has been alone for three hundred years. He counts the number of times she shifts in her sleep (fourteen). He rearranges her ice axes in the night and calls it maintenance. And when she touches his dying crystal system and it lights up for the first time in a century, the sound he makes is not in any language she speaks, but her body translates it instantly.
He is not prepared for a five-foot-seven Swedish woman who gives orders on his mountain.
She is not prepared for what the ridges do.
The mountain is dying. A mining company is circling. And the only thing generating enough energy to save the crystal system is the two of them, together, at extremely close range, producing resonance data that Kel describes as "significant" and Annelie describes as "the reason the mountain glows when we —"
Ridged is a standalone monster romance with a touch-starved yeti who hasn't been touched in three centuries and shows it, a heroine who came back from a forbidden ridge feral, and a heat level that is audible from base camp. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed. The cargo shorts survive. The reader may not.
Monster romance · Size difference · Touch starved hero · Forced proximity · She's in charge · Grumpy × grumpy · Fated mates · He falls first · Only one pelt · Possessive hero · Explicit and geological heat
Its a good paranormal romance. I was a slow start for me. But once it got going I didnt want it to stop. Can't wait for book two! Will this be a series. I sure hope so!