Wild Compass

Candice Leigh gave up her career as a professional climber to care for her dying uncle and was left running the climbing business he had built. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but she'd promised him she wouldn't walk away. Then Ethan, her best friend, dies during one of her guided climbs, and everything she's fought to hold together comes crashing down, leaving Candice grieving, broke, and haunted by the possibility that she was responsible for his death.

Jackson Coetzee returned to Brookside to bury his best friend and find out what happened. A world-champion mountain biker, he had no reason to trust the woman who had been guiding Ethan when he died-and even more reason to stay away when attraction complicates everything. But when they become reluctant partners in the town's inaugural adventure race, suspicion slowly gives way to attraction, and attraction to something neither is prepared for. Jackson has to decide whether he could believe in Candice-and whether he could risk loving her-before the truth about Ethan's final climb changes everything.

A contemporary sports romance set in the wilds of Colorado, full of adventure, heart, and high-stakes chemistry-the first book in the Women's Adventure Co-op outdoor romance series.