From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Samantha Young…

Autumn O’Dea has always tried to see the best in people while her big brother, Killian, has always tried to protect her from the worst. While their lonely upbringing made Killian a cynic, it isn’t in Autumn’s nature to be anything but warm and open. However, after a series of relationship disasters and the unsettling realization that she’s drifting aimlessly through life, Autumn wonders if she’s left herself too vulnerable to the world. Deciding some distance from the security blanket of her brother and an unmotivated life in Glasgow is exactly what she needs to find herself, Autumn takes up her friend’s offer to stay at a ski resort in the snowy hills of Montana. Some guy-free alone time on Whitetail Mountain sounds just the thing to get to know herself better.

However, she wasn’t counting on colliding into sexy Grayson King on the slopes. Autumn has never met anyone like Gray. Confident, smart, with a wicked sense of humor, he makes the men she dated seem like boys. Her attraction to him immediately puts her on the defense because being open-hearted in the past has only gotten it broken. Yet it becomes increasingly difficult to resist a man who is not only determined to seduce her, but adamant about helping her find her purpose in life and embrace the person she is. Autumn knows she shouldn’t fall for Gray. It can only end badly. After all their lives are divided by an ocean and their inevitable separation is just another heart break away…

The Kristen Proby Crossover Collection features a new novel by Kristen Proby and six stories by some of her favorite writers:

Kristen Proby – Soaring with Fallon
Sawyer Bennett – Wicked Force
KL Grayson – Crazy Imperfect Love
Laura Kaye – Worth Fighting For
Monica Murphy – Nothing Without You
Rachel Van Dyken – All Stars Fall
Samantha Young – Hold On

Hold On by Samantha Young was a fun and heartwarming read.

Gray and Autumn literally plow into each other or rather Gray take a hit to protect those on the slopes from Autumn and her lack of skiing ability.

The banter during this first interaction was amazing and when they meet again the chemistry bleed off of the pages.

I adored how Gray helped Autumn in her quest to find her happy, this was not about their connection or sex but her and that made me love Gray even more!

Though the prior King men of Cunningham Falls were written by Ms Proby (this is a book set in her world due to the nature of the Crossover series) Ms Young kept the magic alive! Grey King is a King man through and through… pure perfection.

The happy Gray and Autumn create is one that takes work and deciding really deciding to be present in the others life and adjusting to make it work. This part of the story made my heat full; because love is a choice, though not always a choice an ocean apart, loving someone, being with someone is a choice you make everyday!

As a side note… novella size reads aren’t my jam… but with the magic of Ms Young’s writing though I wanted to live in this happy longer she did a wonderful job with the chemistry, the connection and the HOW this romance would work long term.

Second side note make sure to read Grey’s brother Noah King’s happy in… Soaring with Fallon by Kristen Proby; it was a 5 star read ⭐ for me!

The Kristen Proby Crossover Collection features a new novel by Kristen Proby and six books by some of her favorite writers:

Kristen Proby – Soaring with Fallon
Sawyer Bennett – Wicked Force
KL Grayson – Crazy Imperfect Love
Laura Kaye – Worth Fighting For
Monica Murphy – Nothing Without You
Rachel Van Dyken – All Stars Fall
Samantha Young – Hold On