Gentle Giants

Release Date: 2026-03-03

Summary:

Army veteran Harmon Wheeler lost his voice and his future dreams with a single bullet. He knows he's large and intimidating, but he can't assure people he won't hurt them when he can't talk to them. Losing himself in books is one of his few pleasures. That and the patiently kind librarian who takes the time to help him.

Derek Willow sees past Harm's menacing appearance to the gentle, intelligent man within, which intrigues him. Starting a sign language class seems like a way to both help Harm communicate with others and boost Derek's candidacy for library director, pulling them closer.

Notes, text messages, and ASL facilitate the blossoming of Derek and Harm's relationship. But Derek has a stalker who's determined to have Derek for himself. Harm might not be able to speak, but he hasn't forgotten anything he learned in combat. Can he protect Derek without scaring him away?

Release Date: 2026-09-08

Summary:

Forrest Scoville is used to being sized up and found wanting—built like a linebacker, teaching kindergarten. His students follow him around like he hung the moon. It's their parents who keep asking if he's really cut out for working with five-year-olds.

Conrad Langdon is one of those parents. Since he took custody of his grieving niece, Lizzie, she has flinched from almost everyone except her enormous, soft-spoken teacher. Even Conrad's own wariness around big men doesn't survive one real conversation with the man.

A shared obsession with Lego bricks pulls them into each other's orbit anyway, one late night at a time, until the gentleness inside all that size starts working on Conrad the way it already has on Lizzie. None of it changes the fact that Forrest grades her spelling tests, and dating a parent could get him fired.

Falling for his daughter's teacher breaks every rule Conrad has left, but staying away might cost Forrest the first person who's ever looked past every inch of him and seen exactly the right amount of man.