Hard Landing - Cold Nights and Body Heat

The storm brought the plane down. The body heat kept them alive.

Elsie Vance is a determined photographer with a deadline, and she isn't letting a little thing like a blizzard stop her. She needs a pilot to get her to the remote Alaskan ridge, and she's told there is only one man crazy enough—and skilled enough—to fly in this weather.

Enter 'Dutch.' He's twice her age, scarred, grumpy, and built like the mountains he flies over. He's a master mechanic and a legendary bush pilot with hands stained by grease and a temper as short as the winter days. He wants nothing to do with the city girl in the designer boots, but he can't say no to her cash—or the challenge in her eyes.

When the engine fails over the frozen wilderness, Dutch's brutal competence is the only thing standing between them and death. But surviving the crash is only the beginning. Trapped in the freezing cockpit of a wrecked De Havilland Beaver, buried under snow and miles from rescue, the temperature is dropping fast.

To survive the night, they have to share a single sleeping bag.

Stripped of their heavy gear and pressed skin-to-skin for survival, the friction between the rough-handed pilot and his passenger ignites into something far more dangerous than the cold. In the claustrophobic dark, social rules vanish. There is only the storm outside, the heat inside, and a hunger that demands to be fed.

Hard Landing is a high-heat, age-gap survival romance featuring extreme forced proximity, a gruff silver fox hero, and competence porn that will rev your engine.