Next Door Grump by Layla Valentine

He’s a mountain recluse who avoids the world.
She’s a burned-out city developer who doesn’t know how to slow down.
A baby was never part of the plan…

HER:
My life in San Francisco is supposed to be everything I ever wanted: a dream job, a big promotion, a future I worked myself to exhaustion for.
Then my uncle leaves me his cabin in the Montana mountains.
My plan is simple: fix it up, turn it into a rental, and head back to the city.
Except the cabin is falling apart… the roads are terrifying… and the only person who knows how to fix anything is my grumpy, ridiculously handsome neighbor.
Max barely talks, hates attention, and clearly thinks I’m completely out of my depth.
But as we rebuild the cabin together, the mountains start to feel like home, and Max starts to feel like the one thing I never knew I was missing…

HIM:
I built my life around one rule: stay alone.
Then Lacey crashes into my quiet world like a storm.
She’s stubborn, chaotic, and impossible not to fall for. Helping her fix the cabin was supposed to be temporary.
Instead, she becomes the best part of my days.
But Lacey belongs in the city, chasing dreams bigger than this small mountain town… and I refuse to be the man who asks her to give that up.
Until a surprise pregnancy changes everything, and suddenly the future we never planned might be the one we both want most…