A Mountain Man Walks into a Coffee Shop: Small-Town M/M Romance Novella

A mortician with a dark secret can't stay away from the smoldering son of a powerful mafia family—even when they find themselves caught in the crossfire. Dominic I have a dark secret and the Urso Family knows it. Blackmailed into using my crematorium to their sordid ends, I drift through my life in a haze of guilt and misery, with one single bright spot: Francis Urso. So what if he's a dangerous mafia hitman? He's a dangerous mafia hitman who wants me. Francis I'm the fourth son of the Urso Family. Shunned, disrespected, and relegated to "clean-up duty," I want nothing more than to find my way back in—and I wouldn't mind if I got to keep working with Dominic, the strange, intriguing mortician who is just as much a pawn in this game as I am. When we are attacked, unsure who is on our tail, I'll do whatever it takes to keep Dominic safe, but between the threat of a looming mafia war and the searing attraction between us that we've long ignored, can we find a way to survive together without losing our souls? Grave Work is the first book in the Villainous Creatures series, a steamy MM mafia romance. For lovers of: forced proximity, lovers on the run, slow burn, hookup-to-lovers, feral unhinged MCs, a cinnamon roll who could actually kill you, and a murderous hitman who is soft for his boyfriend. Read on if you love your dark-ish romance with a hint of humor and lots of action. Rugged Josiah Bark has been living alone in his cabin on Harlow Mountain for twenty years, and he likes it that way. That is...until he trudges into town and sees Lennon Hart struggling with the roaster he's installing in his soon-to-open coffee shop. Josiah could just keep walking--leave those townfolk to fend for themselves, right? Or maybe, in this awkward, handsome stranger, he's just found a reason to come down from the mountain. A Mountain Man Walks into a Coffee Shop is a wintry opposites-attract, small-town romance. It takes place in the same world as the Romance in the Iron Range and Granite-Glacier novels but can be read entirely as a standalone.