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Where the Pines Watch Back: Book 1
Paperback
Series: The Watching Pines, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.26 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Hollow Creek is the kind of town people disappear into.
Mara came here to rebuild - quiet routines, familiar roads, and a life small enough to feel safe again. She keeps her head down, her secrets buried, and her distance carefully measured.
Until she realizes someone has been watching her.
At first, it's just a feeling. A shadow across a window. A car that lingers too long. But when the threat turns real, four men step into her orbit - each dangerous in his own way, each refusing to look away.
Rowan, the controlled protector who sees danger before it arrives.
Jace, the golden-hearted musician whose warmth hides unexpected steel.
Silas, the calculating strategist who always knows more than he says.
Dante, the quiet shadow who watches from the edges - and never stops.
They offer safety.
But safety comes with proximity, and proximity comes with choices Mara never planned to make.
Because the deeper she falls into their world, the clearer it becomes:
She wasn't chosen at random.
And the man hunting her may only be the first layer of something far more dangerous.
In Hollow Creek, love doesn't ask you to choose just one.
It asks whether you're strong enough to survive all of them.
Where the Pines Watch Back is a dark why-choose romance filled with slow-burn tension, morally gray protectors, and a heroine who refuses to surrender control - even when the shadows close in.
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