Cover Reveal: North Ridge series by Karina Halle
WELCOME TO NORTH RIDGE.
WHERE LOST HEARTS ARE FOUND.
🔥 Wild Card – Second chance romance with the cowboy who broke her heart
❄️ Maverick – Fast burn boss and employee romance set in the heart of a mountain rescue team
🔥 Hot Shot – Friends to lovers with years of longing and a whole lot of heat
Set in the rugged wilderness of North Ridge, British Columbia, this steamy contemporary romance trilogy follows the three Nelson brothers as they find love against the backdrop of Canada’s wild mountains and dangerous professions.
The Nelson men are cut from the same cloth—alpha heroes shaped by hard work, dangerous jobs, and the unforgiving landscape they call home. Cowboy Shane manages the family’s Ravenswood Ranch with unwavering determination, while his brother Maverick lives life on the edge as a search and rescue specialist who thrives on adrenaline and risk. The youngest, Fox, battles both wildfires and inner demons as a hotshot firefighter who parachutes into danger.
Each brother’s journey to love reflects their character: Shane must overcome past mistakes to reclaim his childhood sweetheart Rachel Waters after six years of separation and regret. Maverick’s walls crumble when American newcomer Riley Clarke joins his rescue team, forcing him to confront his fear of commitment while navigating their explosive chemistry (ahem, involving *ropes*) in life-threatening situations. Fox discovers that his salvation lies not in fighting fires, but in the steady love of his best friend Delilah Gordon, who has carried a torch for him since childhood. (Oh, and a squirrel called Conan).
The series weaves together themes of redemption, brotherhood, and the healing power of love, exploring how three very different relationships—second chance, boss/employee, and friends-to-lovers—can flourish in a setting where survival depends on strength, courage, and trust. From ranch work to mountain rescues to wildfire battles, the Nelson brothers prove that the most dangerous territory isn’t the wilderness around them, but the unexplored terrain of their own hearts.
NOTE: This series was previously published in 2017 where each book became instant USA Today bestsellers! On August 15th 2025, the trilogy is getting new life with new covers, updated content (including an extra chapter in Wild Card), content warnings, new formatting, and is going into KU for the first time ever. You can read each book as a standalone as they revolve around a different couple and their hard-won HEAs, however if you want to read in order it goes: Wild Card, Maverick and Hot Shot.
Six years ago, Shane Nelson shattered my heart in front of half the town.
Now I'm back in the idyllic hamlet of North Ridge where everyone knows your name, hoping if I keep my head down and tend to my ailing mother, the past won't catch up to me.
But Shane's everywhere I look.
He's the rugged foreman of Ravenswood Ranch now—all work-rough hands, amber eyes, and that slow cowboy drawl that used to make me weak in the knees. He still looks at me like I'm the only woman in the world, even though he's the one who told me I meant nothing to him.
It shouldn't matter anymore--I came home to save my mother, not to fall back into bed with the man who destroyed me.
But Shane remembers things differently than I do.
He says there are things I don't know. Secrets that changed everything. He says he never stopped loving me—that he's been dying without me for six years.
I say he's a liar and a coward.
He says he'll prove me wrong.
Wild Card is a second-chance, small-town cowboy romance about the love that survives even when everything else burns down.
Now I'm back in the idyllic hamlet of North Ridge where everyone knows your name, hoping if I keep my head down and tend to my ailing mother, the past won't catch up to me.
But Shane's everywhere I look.
He's the rugged foreman of Ravenswood Ranch now—all work-rough hands, amber eyes, and that slow cowboy drawl that used to make me weak in the knees. He still looks at me like I'm the only woman in the world, even though he's the one who told me I meant nothing to him.
It shouldn't matter anymore--I came home to save my mother, not to fall back into bed with the man who destroyed me.
But Shane remembers things differently than I do.
He says there are things I don't know. Secrets that changed everything. He says he never stopped loving me—that he's been dying without me for six years.
I say he's a liar and a coward.
He says he'll prove me wrong.
Wild Card is a second-chance, small-town cowboy romance about the love that survives even when everything else burns down.
Forget playing it safe.
John “Maverick” Nelson likes to live his life on the edge – literally. A crucial member of the search and rescue team in the mountainous British Columbian town of North Ridge, Maverick’s brash and bold attitude means he’s the first one to ascend into danger, no matter the risk.
When it comes to women, though, Maverick errs on the side of caution. For all his cocky charm, rugged good looks and sexual swagger, he remains as unreachable as the surrounding peaks. Hot, wild sex? He’ll tell you there’s no better way to spend a cold, wintry night. Relationships? He’d rather freeze.
That is until he lays his eyes on American Riley Clarke. Trading in the crippling expenses of Aspen for BC, Riley is North Ridge’s newest member of their search and rescue team and the only woman on the job, which means spending a lot of time with Mav in adrenaline-pumping situations.
With the chemistry between them hot enough to melt snow, keeping their hands off each other is detriment to the success of their team. Besides, Maverick’s her boss and she didn’t work her ass off in Colorado just to throw it all away for some mind-blowing sex.
But when the worst winter in years sweeps in, Riley and Maverick will have to battle the elements along with their attraction for each other. And if either of them slip up, both of them will be in for a deep freeze.
Maverick is a fast-burn, boss/employee romance set against the wild and dangerous backdrop of search and rescue. The second book in the USA Today Bestselling North Ridge series, featuring the rough and rugged Nelson brothers and the fierce love that tames their wild hearts.
John “Maverick” Nelson likes to live his life on the edge – literally. A crucial member of the search and rescue team in the mountainous British Columbian town of North Ridge, Maverick’s brash and bold attitude means he’s the first one to ascend into danger, no matter the risk.
When it comes to women, though, Maverick errs on the side of caution. For all his cocky charm, rugged good looks and sexual swagger, he remains as unreachable as the surrounding peaks. Hot, wild sex? He’ll tell you there’s no better way to spend a cold, wintry night. Relationships? He’d rather freeze.
That is until he lays his eyes on American Riley Clarke. Trading in the crippling expenses of Aspen for BC, Riley is North Ridge’s newest member of their search and rescue team and the only woman on the job, which means spending a lot of time with Mav in adrenaline-pumping situations.
With the chemistry between them hot enough to melt snow, keeping their hands off each other is detriment to the success of their team. Besides, Maverick’s her boss and she didn’t work her ass off in Colorado just to throw it all away for some mind-blowing sex.
But when the worst winter in years sweeps in, Riley and Maverick will have to battle the elements along with their attraction for each other. And if either of them slip up, both of them will be in for a deep freeze.
Maverick is a fast-burn, boss/employee romance set against the wild and dangerous backdrop of search and rescue. The second book in the USA Today Bestselling North Ridge series, featuring the rough and rugged Nelson brothers and the fierce love that tames their wild hearts.
I've been in love with Fox Nelson since I was young.
Everyone knows it too. My friends, my family, half the town of North Ridge—they all know about my hopeless crush on the moody, rugged mountain man next door.
Everyone except Fox himself.
And maybe that's for the best. Because Fox Nelson is a wildland firefighter who jumps out of planes into burning forests for a living. He's dangerous, damaged, and way out of my league.
But lately, something's changed.
Fox isn't looking at me like a friend anymore. He's looking at me like a man looks at a woman he wants. And when he touches me—those skilled, rough hands lingering just a little too long—it doesn't feel friendly at all.
I tell myself it doesn't mean anything.
He tells himself the same thing.
But when the summer heat becomes unbearable and we're thrown together more than ever, the line between friendship and something deeper starts to blur.
Fox says he's not good for me. That his demons are too dark, his job too dangerous.
I say I'm tired of being treated like I'm made of glass.
He says I don't know what I'm asking for.
I say I'm about to show him exactly what I want.
Because I have one more secret Fox doesn't know about—one that will change everything between us.
And I'm finally ready to tell him.
Hot Shot is a childhood friends-to-lovers, angsty, emotional rollercoaster romance set against the dangerous backdrop of smoke jumpers. The third book in the USA Today Bestselling North Ridge series, featuring the rough and rugged Nelson brothers and the fierce love that tames their wild hearts.
Everyone knows it too. My friends, my family, half the town of North Ridge—they all know about my hopeless crush on the moody, rugged mountain man next door.
Everyone except Fox himself.
And maybe that's for the best. Because Fox Nelson is a wildland firefighter who jumps out of planes into burning forests for a living. He's dangerous, damaged, and way out of my league.
But lately, something's changed.
Fox isn't looking at me like a friend anymore. He's looking at me like a man looks at a woman he wants. And when he touches me—those skilled, rough hands lingering just a little too long—it doesn't feel friendly at all.
I tell myself it doesn't mean anything.
He tells himself the same thing.
But when the summer heat becomes unbearable and we're thrown together more than ever, the line between friendship and something deeper starts to blur.
Fox says he's not good for me. That his demons are too dark, his job too dangerous.
I say I'm tired of being treated like I'm made of glass.
He says I don't know what I'm asking for.
I say I'm about to show him exactly what I want.
Because I have one more secret Fox doesn't know about—one that will change everything between us.
And I'm finally ready to tell him.
Hot Shot is a childhood friends-to-lovers, angsty, emotional rollercoaster romance set against the dangerous backdrop of smoke jumpers. The third book in the USA Today Bestselling North Ridge series, featuring the rough and rugged Nelson brothers and the fierce love that tames their wild hearts.
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