Cold Smoke: A Search and Rescue Christian Romantic Suspense (Cascade Rescue Book 3)

He knows exactly how to read a mountain. What he doesn’t know is how to let someone into his heart.

Tanner Brooks has spent eight years keeping people at a safe distance.

As McCall, Idaho’s best avalanche forecaster, he knows how to read a mountain before it breaks. He knows when to stay back, when to bring a slope down, and what it takes to keep strangers alive.

What he doesn’t know how to do is let anyone close enough to matter.

Then Dana Mitchell arrives in town.

A magazine writer from Chicago, Dana has been sent to McCall to write an easy winter story—a cozy town, beautiful snow, and the rugged avalanche specialist who keeps it safe.

Instead, she finds a man who is nothing like the story she was supposed to tell.

Tanner is quiet where Dana is talkative. He’s most comfortable in the mountains, while she’s spent her whole life using words to keep silence at bay. Yet somehow, the woman who can’t stop talking becomes the one person who can sit beside Tanner in the quiet without trying to fix him.

As winter closes in and avalanche danger climbs toward levels the valley has never seen, Dana finds herself drawn deeper into Tanner’s world—and into the grief he’s spent years refusing to face.

But Dana is hiding something too. Behind her cheerful confidence is a woman who has spent years choosing the safe version of her life, even when it isn’t the life she truly wants.

Now the mountain is getting more dangerous, her time in McCall is running out, and the truth they’re both afraid to face may cost them everything.

Because sometimes the greatest danger isn’t the mountain.

It’s what happens when you finally let someone close enough to lose.

Cold Smoke is a clean Christian mountain rescue romance featuring an emotionally guarded avalanche forecaster, a warm and determined journalist, slow-burn romance, forced proximity, high-stakes avalanche rescue, found family, small-town charm, and a faith journey about grief, trust, surrender, and learning to come down from the mountain.