Book One
Wild Compass
Out 21 October 2026
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.