The Bind & Brew

A shattered knee doesn't care about legacies.
Beau Montgomery was the Captain of the Boston Bruins - a weapon on the ice, a man built for pressure and stadium lights. Now he's thirty, retired, and hiding from the ghost of his career in a crumbling cottage on the edge of the world: Donegal, Ireland.

He came for silence, black coffee, and a chance to disappear.

Caleb McGinley has never known a silent moment in his life.
Even though he grew up in this tiny village, with nothing but the sheep and the sea for company. Between running The Bind & Brew-a chaotic mix of a bookstore and a café-and minding everyone's business in the village, he's a man of perpetual motion and relentless kindness. When a massive, brooding American moves into the old O'Shea place, Caleb makes it his mission to "sort him out."

Beau doesn't want fixing.

But between leaking roofs, hot coffee, and a bookseller who refuses to leave him alone, the walls Beau built around his heart start to feel as fragile as the cottage's warped front door.

And Beau Montgomery has never been very good at losing fights - especially the ones inside his own chest.

Author's Note:

Welcome to my first book! I am so excited to share Beau and Caleb's story with you. If you're scared to start new stories that never reach the finish line, don't worry-this book is already fully written. I'll post a new chapter twice a week, I won't leave you hanging!

There will be trigger warnings at the beginning of each explicit scene, and I'll make sure you don't need to read them to follow along with the book (but absolutly can).