Wood You Be Mine

Alice Watson has one year to prove she belongs as the new elementary school principal in a skeptical small Maine town, and her first impression on neighbor and landlord Henri Gagnon doesn't help — she nearly burns down his cabin, then gets caught throwing tampons at a moose, then finds herself naked in front of him entirely by accident.

Henri, a grumpy lumberjack fighting to save his family's struggling business, is convinced the winter will send her running, but his protective streak keeps showing through the grump, and neither of them can quite stay away from the other.

Daphne Elliot opens the Lovewell Lumberjacks series with a small-town grumpy-sunshine romance full of flirty banter, ax-throwing, and slow dancing.