What could go wrong when my brother’s best friend becomes my roommate?

I’m about to find out.

When I met Hudson Fox, I drove over his crutches. Way to go, girl. My hormones think this hotshot firefighter is all that and then some.

My hormones have a terrible track record. They are cheering for Hudson, but my brain knows better. I’m a smart woman with plans and none of them involve romance.

Until I move into my new place and Hudson is my roommate. Complete with Butter, his cat.

Hudson isn’t just easy on the eyes, he’s everything I didn’t know I wanted, including a little grumpy with a protective streak bigger than Alaska. We both have our reasons for avoiding romance, but when he proposes a with benefits arrangement, I can’t even think over the sound of my hormones screaming for joy.

When my messy past catches up to me and I discover Hudson is my brother’s best friend, well, things get even messier. Hudson is keeping his own secrets. I tell myself it doesn’t matter. Until my heart wants more.

Hudson　Stella’s story is perfect for readers who love: protective firefighters, slow burn, roommates, brother’s best friend, messy secrets, chemistry on the rampage, small town shenanigans, emotional romance with a dash of angst, oodles of swoon, and a cinnamon roll hero who will protect the woman he loves with everything he has.

*A full-length, standalone romance.

A brand new, swoony small town firefighter series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!

I'm falling in love with a firefighter, and I'm pregnant.

Big problem: It's not his baby.

When I met Griffin Cannon, I fainted. He saved me from face-planting into the gravel. He's the rescue-y, protective type, which fits seeing as he's a hotshot firefighter.

I didn't think I'd ever see him after that. Until he saves me again. Just when I think maybe fate is trying to throw me into his arms, my life skids sideways in a big way. I'm pregnant. The guy who should step up skips town instead.

Scrambling, I accept a new job and move. I figure Griffin is in my rear-view mirror, yet fate brings him back into my life. I'm working for his brother and Griffin's the newest smokin' hot firefighter in town. He can have any woman he wants, while I'm busy learning how to live without sleep and win awards for the most-frumpy single mom ever.

And yet, Griffin wants to cook me dinner. From changing diapers to so much more, he's there as I stumble through the stress-fest of my life. I don't even believe in love. But when a firefighter with a heart of gold does the dishes, it's near impossible to resist.

When a grumpy billionaire falls first.

We're just going to be friends, right?My kind of forever is staying single. It took too many years to escape my disaster of a marriage. As a single mom who's barely scraping by, most men don't even notice me. So when Adam Cannon almost kisses me, I'm not expecting it.

I'm definitely not expecting him to propose more. Despite a firm commitment to never being committed, I can't resist Adam. It's just a few kisses, I tell myself.

Adam is everything I never expected. Protective, loyal, and hot enough to melt a few glaciers. I tell him we can't let things get complicated. I'm a woman with a messy past and definitely from the wrong side of town. By the time things have gone well past complicated, I'm falling hard and Adam might be the only man who can catch me.

We got married in Vegas after only one night. I'm in love with her, and she doesn't even know it.

Rosie

Wyatt Cannon is all that and then some. Hotshot firefighter, seriously easy on the eyes and knows his way around… well, me. We had a fling a few years ago and no one knows. I never meant for anything to happen again. But I never could back down from a dare. I woke up married. I'd like to pretend I don't remember that night, but it's burned into my body, heart and soul.

Wyatt is impossible to forget. I should be figuring out how to get divorced, but he asks me to give us a chance instead. My life is beyond messy and he's just making it more complicated. I don't want to need anyone, and I don't believe in love.

Except Wyatt makes me want it all.