Avalanche Control for Beginners
A New Adult Romance

About this book:

The mountain doesn't care about your ego—but Jonah Reed definitely does. He's the golden boy from Jackson Hole with a pedigree, a pricey kit, and a smirk that says he's already won. Maya Vance is the local who scraped for every shift, knows every hidden rock and wind-loaded gully on Silver Creek, and has zero patience for transplants who think a certification trumps experience. When Patrol Director Mac pairs them for the season—and enters them into the legendary Rookie Point Ladder, where the winner claims a career-making forecasting seminar and the loser spends April fishing frozen hot dogs from snowbanks—the rivalry is instant, electric, and absolutely forbidden by every unwritten rule of the shack.

Forced into shared ski-cuts, bomb runs, and eight-by-eight lift shacks in forty-below wind chills, Maya and Jonah trade barbs over snowpit data and radio protocol while the real danger stacks up on the ridgelines. Every storm cycle tests their truce: a missed wind-slab here, a faulty beacon check there, a whiteout rescue that leaves them stranded overnight with nothing but a single sleeping bag and a decade of suppressed adrenaline. As the tally board fills and the season grinds toward spring, the line between "beating him" and "needing him" blurs into something far more dangerous than any avalanche path.

In a job where one bad call buries you both, falling for your rival isn't just unprofessional—it's a hazard you can't mitigate. But the mountain has a way of stripping away pretense, and when the final run drops, Maya and Jonah will have to decide if the safest route is the one they've been avoiding all along. *Avalanche Control for Beginners* is a steamy, high-stakes rivals-to-lovers romance set against the breathtaking brutality of professional ski patrol—where the snow is deep, the stakes are higher, and the chemistry is explosive.