Timber

The Mountain Man's Babies #1

by Frankie Love

Jax
I've been called wild. Dirty. Untamed.
I moved to the woods to get away from the bullsh*t of the city. People there don't understand a man like me.
I work hard, and my hands are as calloused as my heart.
And nothing's gonna change that.
But now I've met Harper.
And my whole f*cking world has changed.
But this girl keeps running.
I need to make her stay because she's having my baby.
I'm gonna make sure I'm the only man she ever needs again.

Harper
I never expected my fiancé to break things off.
I'd saved myself for my wedding night, and now I'm left wondering why.
Needing to get away, I ran to my uncle's cabin in the woods.
But a storm has left me stranded on Jax's doorstep, and soon enough he takes me in his arms.
And on the floor. And on the table. And in the great outdoors.
Our time together has left me with a big problem ... a problem a wild man like him can't fix.
A problem that makes me run ... because I need a man who believes in true love and commitment.
I need a man who is ready to be a father.
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NOTE: Originally published as a five-part serial titled TIMBER. This includes all five parts, plus 15,000 extra words of bonus material: ACE 1.

WARNING: This story contains graphic language and an untamed man who takes a virgin. Please don't read if you're not ready for hot sex that will make you reach for that vibrator hidden under your pillow. If the batteries are out, your own hand will do. No shame, babycakes. Enjoy this steamy story! You deserve it.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Erotica, Contemporary, Audiobook, Smut, Erotic Romance

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2016

About the author

Frankie Love writes filthy-sweet stories about bad boys and mountain men. As a thirty-something mom to six who is ridiculously in love with her own bearded hottie, she believes in love-at-first-sight and happily-ever-afters. She also believes in the power of a quickie.

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Reviews

[Carol [Goodreads Addict] · Rating 4 out of 5]

Timber: The Bad Boy’s Baby is book one in The Mountain Man’s Babies series by Frankie Love. I’ve read a bunch of the books in this series but have no idea how I ever skipped over the first book. So I decided I needed to fix that right away. Although this wasn’t my favorite of the series, I enjoyed it.



Jaxon (Jax) Lane lived in the city and shared a business with his partner. He was definitely popular with the ladies. They just wanted him and what he could do for them. So who was he to turn them down? Until he accidentally slept with the wrong woman. Now the sheriff has it in for their business. Everything they worked for could be ruined. So, he decides to become a silent partner and move up in the mountains. No internet, no television, just he and his ax and all the trees he could ever want to chop down.

It was a quiet night with a big snow storm blowing in. He was sitting by the fire when someone came to his door. She was so beautiful and obviously an innocent. He hadn’t been with a woman in a very long time and he new his dry spell was about to be over.



Harper Baker was raised by an ultra conservative preacher. She and all her siblings were home schooled and had very little contact with the public. She had been engaged to a man from their church until he broke the engagement a week before the wedding. She wants to be by herself so she is going up the mountain to her Uncle’s cabin to think. But the storm came in fast and she can’t make it. Luckily she sees a cabin nearby.



As soon as Harper saw Jax, she started feeling things she has never felt before. She was saving herself for marriage but he made her want things she knew must be a sin. Is it so wrong to want this for herself? Just one night to indulge in all the fantasies she has ever had. After returning home, though, her one night of bliss has consequences. And her family’s behavior is making her question everything she was ever taught.



Jax isn’t the forever kind of guy. So when Harper returns to him with the shocking news, he doesn’t know what to do or say. And of course, he says all the wrong things.

Jax is all the things you hate to love in a hero. He is completely full of himself. With Harper, though, he gets a glimpse into what could be something more. That she could be important to him. Still, he is convinced that he is not a one woman man. He screws up over and over. Luckily, Harper keeps going back and doesn’t give up on him.

Is this over the top, insta love, sugary sweet, and lots of sex??? Yes to all. Did I love it. Another yes. As I said above, it’s not my favorite of the series but I still can’t help but enjoy these. Frankie Love is one of my favorite authors. If she writes it, I know in advance I’m going to like it!

[Chantal ❤️ · Rating 2 out of 5]

WARNING MILD SPOILERS AHEAD!
This book was ok for what it was. I can't really say I understand what this guy was thinking when he has sex with a known Virgin expecting her to be on the pill? Really she has a religious family and she has never had sex or believes in sex outside of marriage and you think this type of girl would be on the pill? Ok now I sound crazy!
Ok so I am a sexist but I just like it when my hero is doing the chasing and she was the desperate one in this situation. I totally hated that she had sex with him while her ex was gone for an hour and then later picks her up to bring her home. The hero just lets her go??? Like not a problem because he does not do commitment or relationship or whatever!!! Really!
Then she tell him (yes she comes back, loser) she is pregnant and he is all like then " I will come with you for the abortion". Wow and afterthoughts let's keep having sex while we can cause I am so awesome and you are lucky to have "my wood".... Words just failed me here.
Now I gave it two stars here because I thought that his character stayed true to himself and the f@&$ing manwhore that he is. She was way way too forgiving I would have taken his money and set myself up WITHOUT his sorry excuse of an ass.
My thoughts are she is so lucky she did not get a STD from him as he does not use condoms and thinks every girl is on the pill. Asshole! He is all that I hate about a hero. Every last nasty thing he did was for his own self and not for any real love he had... Bullshit for the heroine or the babies.

Not good and will not be reading it again ever!!!

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was on holiday as I was reading this so my heart wasn't fully into it!! There was a ton of sex in this book which my hubby kept peaking over my shoulder to see what I was reading! Now he thinks I read very "dirty porn!!!" Gah!!! Why did he take interest in one of my smuttier reads?!!! He thinks I'm a perv now! Lmao! That's really all I have to say at the moment!!!!! I didn't love it but I didn't hate it either!!

[Cheesecake · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jax and Harper. Harper is getting away to her uncles cabin after her ex dumps her a week before the wedding. She is 21 and very sheltered so she is unprepared for Jax. Her car stutters to a stop in the snow storm just before his cabin and Jax isn't one to say no to seducing a pretty girl. In fact that's what got him in trouble in the first place, forcing him to live in the wilderness. What starts as a night of fun and firsts for Harper, evolves into something more when it turns out that Harper is pregnant. Jax has a douche canoe moment and assumes she would want an abortion. Harper was raised in a very strict, christian household and is horrified. A lot of reviewers hated this part, but really it made sense to me. They have only been in each other's company for 2 days at this point with very little conversation, and Jax has no plans to get married. The thing that bugged me about it was his getting her preggers in the first place he didn't use condoms because he only schtups women on the pill before this... ick! So how many STDs does he have from the hundreds of bouts of condomless, meaningless sex????
The whole story was choppy. Some parts are bogged down by pages and pages of descriptive sex, and no story, and I was often bored and tempted to DNF. It's repetitive with too much waffling and not enough time where the MCs are actually in the same space and not scr*wing. The thing I liked the most about the story was how the author had the H's character stay the same throughout the story. That is... until he does a 180 and becomes 'mr. sweeheart'. And I got tired of Harper always crying. Seriously, she was such a wet blanket!

[❁ lilyreadsromance ❁ · Rating 1 out of 5]

One thought:

This is not a romance story. This is the story of two incompatible people that had to be together because the playboy hero had knocked up the heroine with triplets. YEAH, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SPOILER ANYMORE.

This is such a bad book, people. I was expecting something like The Gamble by KA but you know what, I had too much of high hope on that. This book.... *sigh* has one of the worst couples ever and I've read about thousands of them. They are bad for each other. The romance felt really forced. The heroine, oh god, she could easily be the evil antagonist in this story.

NOBODY CAN CONVINCE ME THAT THEY WILL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. NOT WITHOUT TONS OF MARRIAGE COUNSELINGS.

[Hot Reading Mom · Rating 1 out of 5]

A nice sheltered religious girl runs to her uncle's cabins in the mountain and get stuck in the snow. She meets a self-identified man-whore to whom she give her virginity! He sleeps with her within an hour of meeting and then leaves her on the floor of his cabin and then goes up to sleep alone in his loft! WTF! The discussion of his "wood" is more than girl can take. Little storyline between the constant sex scenes.

This truly escapism at its finest. A reader should be prepared to suspend all concepts of reality or what is the right thing to do. I wish I had been warned.

[Jacqueline · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

This was so filthy, so much sexing going on it that cute little log cabin miles from anywhere. As I sit here with the couple from next door screeching at each other and the guy the other side playing his music obnoxiously loud outside I'd love to live in sweet seclusion, away from noisy arseholes. But such is life.

It was a bit odd that he occasionally referred to his wiener in third person and it was unusual in that there was instalust but not instalove, but it's not a story to be taken too seriously, rather a very enjoyable escape. Sweet though.

Now if only my neighbours would sleep it off and nobhead next door's radio spontaneously blow up, I could enjoy a little seclusion myself.

Complete story, recommended as a filthy yet sweet escape into the forest. Available on ku.

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[Aղցela W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first book in a new series too me. Jax needed to get out of town he got into some trouble by having sex with the sheriffs daughter he was a manwhore. When Harper's fiance breaks off their engagement she gets lost in the woods she is a 21 year old virgin living with her religious family her father is a preacher. When she gives her virginity to Jax these two have some hot sex but Jax is arrogant because he has a big package. When her ex Like shows up he questions Harper about being with Jax she is embarrassed because they got caught only she doesn't live alone. This was a good read and my first time reading this author. While this book did have a few errors in it I over looked it because this was a good read. If you like reading about hot mountain men then you will love this book.

[Raine · Rating 4 out of 5]

It seems that I've been reading a LOT of lumberjack alpha men lately. Or at least ones who look like them with the full on beards and the flannel and the manly man thing going on. I don't think it is limited to just romance books either. I've been watching baseball recently and it looks like the players are all sporting full beards. I think the Chicago Cubs have over 50% of the players looking like lumberjacks. I never really liked beards on a man, but after reading these books and watching some of these hot ball players I'm really digging the look!

This is the 2nd book I've read of Frankie Love and I really enjoyed this book. It was longer than the first book I read. I can't wait to read more books by Frankie!

[Janja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Insta everything and some alpha lumberjack with naive heroine but still very enjoyable to read. This author is new to me and I know that I'll return to her.

[Lisa Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I say that I almost immediately DNF this book I mean it. The cringy way he kept referring to his member as wood and/or trunk was awful! However I kept reading. Happy ending. Probably won’t continue with this series though.

[Ashley (wickedreads) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh

[❤SanaReads❤]

I would love to thank my friend Carol [Goodreads Addict] for the amazing gift, Jen Berg for sponsoring the giveaway and author Frankie Love for making this giveaway possible.

The giveaway is held in Carol's Crazy Bookish World a facebook group in which you'll get to see some hotties and nice books as well.

[Valentine · Rating 1 out of 5]

This honestly might be the worst book I've ever read.

Some quotes as evidence:
“She’ll never be able to walk without thinking of my cock inside her”
“He smells like the Earth. He smells like a man”
“You were some man whore and it bit you in the ass”
"Harper is going to birth my offspring"
"She fondled my balls like they were golden orbs. Like they were precious stones -- and, fuck, it's good she thinks this way. My cock is a fucking treasure."
"My jaw drops -- and I know, that's a pretty lame girl-move."

Ok so now that that's out of the way, I move on to my more lucid and detailed points:
1. Jaxon calls himself "not an asshole" so many times that I no longer believe him.
2. Why does he curse every second word? I have a potty mouth too, but this is excessive.
3. As someone who studies forestry, no part of his wood-based business makes sense to me. His trucking business is *exclusively* for lumber because he secretly wanted to be a carpenter? What?! An aside: he is causing serious forest degradation by cutting down all these trees around his cabin and for what? To just have some lumber???
4. Why would he assume she was on birth control, she was a virgin and a very devout Christian
5. I have never lived in the Bible Belt, but her entire family disowning her because she had sex once after her fiancé dumped her seems unrealistic
6. I know I have often complained that romance novels don't have enough sex but this book cured me of that! How do they both have the stamina?!!
7. So many of their problems could have been solved if they stopped having sex for two minutes together and had a conversation where his "wood" didn't make an appearance.

The only thing I have left to say about this book is: Jesus fucking Christ.

[Isabel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Whenever Jax and Harper are alone together it's like a bad porn, both in dialogue and behavior. There were several times I just wanted to quit and start banging my head against the wall, it was that bad from time to time. But when they weren't alone, it was a half decent book.

[Stephanie Bolen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dear God, please pick something else

I expected raunchy. The cover and title give that away. My mom has dirtier sex. And the dumb, yee gods the dumb, my eye muscles hurt from all the rolling they did. The wood puns never stop, and it's meant to be sexy. I can just hear someone saying, "cause he's a sexy lumberjack--get it." But no, dude is a hipster playing at being a lumberjack. Chick is playing at being an adult and Lord help them raising those babies. As in please wrath of God them and let someone with sense raise the babies with the stupid names. She Gooped up those baby names, just like that peabrain in Hollywood. The stupid doesn't stop at the MCs there is also a whole world of religious nuttery. Just get something else and send this back to the Pits of Hell from whence it came.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

[angie]

Wood. Trunk. 😵

No thank you.🙅‍♀️

Can't read beyond 22%. I need a medal for tenacity reaching this far into the book.

Send help.🚩🚩🚩

[cherelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this book about 2 years ago and loves it.
I know. I was a younger girl of 24 at the time (as I'd that excuses it 🙄😂) o just read this again yesterday and I don't know what the hell j waa thinking.

I cannot, for the life of me understand why theses authors keep churning out books where the H is a bumbling, blithering idiot. She was such a wet blanket and so damn naive it was a joke. He was the typical, overused washed out alpha male douche bag (can you say boring).

What I don't get is a lot of reviewers seemed mad that he suggested an abortion. Why wouldn't he though? He's known the girl for less than 2 days and in that time all they've done is fuck. No conversation whatsoever. Just screw each other senseless. Her family would disown her, she has been sheltered, fresh out of an engagement and honestly so useless it's appalling. I wouldn't want to have a baby with her either it doesn't make a lick of sense. Then, the author has the audacity for the H to be horrified at the suggestion. Though I suppose it makes sense seeing how devout she is

On another note, anyone care to tell me why all these dickheads end up pregnant in these types of books? The authors are becoming lazy and unimaginative. All of these characters keep popping out kids and it's literally because none of the authors could think of a single way to push the story forward. Stop doing this. Please.

Also, the sex scenes sucked. They were so poor simply because of the way the characters interacted with each other it was so cringe I almost DNF'd at them. I honestly don't know how I finished this book

All in all, for what it is (alpha male douche smut) it works. If you look at it as a normal book it's an epic fail. Wish I could give zero stars.

[Mysti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilariously awful trashy smut. 😂 😂 😂

This is a case of right book at the right time. Had I not spent the previous 20 hours listening to a book that was slow, depressing, and with no sex, then I would recognize this book for what it really is.... awful. But since I did find myself coming down from an exhausting book, this is exactly what I needed to cheer me up!

Harper (21, virgin) was essentially raised in a religious cult. She was homeschooled with her 9 siblings and has absolutely no experience with reality. When her fiancé calls off the wedding, she drives her little hatchback into the mountains to stay at her uncle's cabin. Yep - I can't explain that one either. Of course she ends up stuck in the snow and has to go to the nearest cabin for help.

Jax (28, arrogant whore) has literally been run out of town for f*cking too many women and now he lives in his cabin isolated in the woods chopping down trees. Jax doesn't get a lot of foot traffic where he lives so he's ready to take this girls virginity as soon as she steps through his door. Luckily for him, Harper is apparently just as horny as he is and starts stripping. Jax has no problem swinging the ax between his legs and showing Harper all the sinful things she's been missing out on.

Harper's family shuns her, she ends up pregnant, yada yada.

So this book is just full of sex. It's really OTT all the way through. So many "wood" references it's ridiculous. Jax is a complete and utter bastard. He admits several times that he only wants to f*ck her and he also knows he's gods gift to women. Harper, of course, keeps running back for more instead of telling him to fuck off.

The one thing I did like about this was that there was no insta-love. Usually these fluff pieces have that and this one was a little different. Even when Harper ends up pregnant, he's not falling on his knees begging to marry her. I didn't like the religious portion of this - but who would?

I did try and put myself into Harper's shoes and I can understand why she behaved the way she did.

Anyway - the book is also narrated by Joe Arden, who is a sexy saint.

If you need a fluff piece with an asshole MMC, a naïve virgin FMC, a LOT of sex, full of awful jokes and sex puns, then this is for you!!!!

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

So sorry, I just couldn’t connect with the characters.

[Penny · Rating 2 out of 5]

OMG! Let me start this review by saying I picked Timber up as kind of a joke. It was free at the moment it came to my attention and by some of the reviews I just couldn’t help myself, I had to see what it was like.

I was hoping to get a raunchy Alexa Riley meets Jordan Silver kind of story, which proves to you I do read this trope when I’m in a certain mood, but this whole thing was just… confusing.

Harper, who comes from what seems a very narrow-minded, rigid religious family, is the epitome of innocent, sheltered young girl who turns into porn-star-worthy sex adept from just one look at the H. So that happens. But she has deep(ish) beliefs and she struggles with leaving the life her family chose. And then she doesn’t. And then she does again. And then she definitely doesn’t again.

Jax’s character made absolutely ZERO effing sense. He was supposed to be this manwhore who slept with anything that walked, landing himself in trouble. So, instead of being a grown-up and start discriminating where he puts it, he decides to seclude himself as “the city life is not for him anymore” and starts deforesting a mountain with his ax for no apparent reason.

The rest is some raunchy sex, a guy that goes over the side of hot-and-cold and into multiple-personality-disorder, a girl who’s so “naïve” she makes a jellyfish look smart, and a ton of other crap that makes almost no sense at all. I laughed my ass off at the absurdity of it all. In all honesty? I’d say don’t bother with this one.

[Karen Davis · Rating 1 out of 5]

The biggest turnoff for was how the characters spoke. Annoyed the crap out of me!

Though I enjoy a story where the man defends his woman from even her own snotty family, if need be. Sadly this man's character was under cut by some of the language the author chose. This guy was supposed to be a player, a womanizer, a lumberjack, alpha-male type, a manly-man... He fell short for me.

The young woman was worse. She was to childish for my tastes. I understand living a sheltered life, but this was to much.

Though I know there are fanatical religious people in the world. However, the way this author wrote these characters really bugged me. Just to be clear...not all religious people are fanatical and disown their children because they chose different paths. Seriously...UGH!

I did not enjoy this book.

[Summer Donnelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

too stupid to breathe heroine meets angry man-ho who likes to drop the Eff bomb for no reason.

Harper doesn't grow. doesn't have any character arc. she blithely goes from one caretaker to another. she gains no life skills except the bedroom tango.

Jax is a crude, selfish jerk whose idea of "being there" leaves a lot to be desired.

secondary characters are wooden and unrealistic.

not even sure it qualifies for 2 stars.

[Sofia´s Beddable Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

RTC

[Andria Potter · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've read other versions of "virgin girl trapped on mountain with wild man" that were better. This girl was so whiny. 2.5 stars.

[CassDamm · Rating 1 out of 5]

That was the cringiest thing I’ve read all year

[Chalice · Rating 3 out of 5]

The couple: Jax and Harper

Romance genre: mountain man
Series: The Mountain Man's Babies
Length: 284 pages

Plot: Jax is a hardworking mountain man who couldn't stand living in the city anymore. Harper is stranded on his doorstep one night after being caught in a storm. After her fiance broke things off, she was questioning everything she knew, but Jax has settled one question: she absolutely is a desirable woman. But what happens when their time together has consequences?

Commentary: Jax is arrogant enough to see the storm that strands Harper in the mountains as a sort of one-night-stand delivery service. He doesn't think past the idea that a hot woman is on his doorstep. I mean, protection? What's that? When she comes back, pregnant, he's all for solving the problem, so long as that solution doesn't end with him having a baby. He's pretty gross. I can absolutely see how he got into the bind that forced him into the mountains in the first place. Although, in true romance novel fashion, all he needed was his one true love and that fixed everything. Well, eventually.

Next book in the series: Bucked

[Jac K]

DNF
I’ve spent most of the weekend trying to clean out old freebies, and am not having much luck. I gave up somewhere around the 25% mark and skipped to the end. In a nutshell…
Jax is a former manwhore that had to leave the city after he slept with the sheriff’s daughter. Now he lives in the mountains and chops wood all day. Harper is the oldest in a conservative religious family. It’s all very cliché, she’s clueless about all things in RL, and her family are judge-y assholes.

The book opens with a distressed Harper driving through the mountains… you guessed it… in a tiny car in a blizzard. Of course, she gets stuck just outside Jax’s house, and the two have sex. It’s all a little eye roll-y, but this is smut. But then it turned into a bad porno…

“That's an orgasm? I didn't think women had those?”

I've been caught naked in a bad boy's house

“Is that your hand?” she asks. “Just a finger. You can’t handle a hand.” “Some women can?” she asks in awe.