First published 2023
Shane Hutchins answers a 911 call on a full moon night in Falls Creek and finds Beth Hale in labor, alone. He gets her through it. Then he can't seem to stay away. Shane left the Navy SEALs carrying things he doesn't talk about and reinvented himself as a small-town paramedic, partly as penance. Falling for a new mother was never part of that plan. Beth has enough to manage: a newborn daughter, a difficult ex, and a town full of people with opinions about her life. The last person she expected to trust is her brother's best friend, the man who caught her baby. But Shane shows up, again and again, and the baby girl starts to feel like his. The tension at the center of this story is simple and stubborn: two people who have good reasons to keep their distance and better reasons not to. Shane will put everything on the line for Beth and her daughter. What Saves Us is the final book in the Falls Creek Series and works as a standalone, though readers may want to start from the beginning.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, grounded, heartfelt, intimate, tender
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance
Setting: Falls Creek
468 pages · Paperback · Excellent Rectangle Publishing LLC
Content warnings: death