Ever Mine (Honey Mountain, Bk. 2)
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Overview
A second-chance romance that proves some loves don't stay buried — no matter how hard you run from them.
She was hired to fix him. She never expected him to unravel her right back. Hawk Madden is hockey's golden boy — talented, magnetic, and the last person Sloane wants walking back into her life. But that's exactly what happens when he becomes her newest client.
For nine years, she's kept her distance. There were reasons. Good ones. Grief has a way of changing a person, of making flight feel safer than fight. And Sloane has always been a runner.
Hawk was her first love. The kind of love that shapes you, marks you, becomes the quiet ache you carry into every room. She thought she'd moved past it. She thought she'd buried it deep enough that it couldn't find her.
She was wrong.
One look across a room and the walls start to crack. One touch and the carefully constructed distance between them begins to crumble. One kiss and everything she thought she'd left behind comes rushing back — raw, undeniable, and terrifying.
Because Hawk isn't just her past. And as old feelings resurface with a force she can't reason away, Sloane has to face the truth she's been running from all along.
Series Information
Series Name: Honey Mountain
Series Reading Order
This series is best read in publication order. The books are linked standalones, focusing on different romances within the same small-town world, with recurring characters and family ties. The series currently consists of five books.
Book 1 - Always Mine
Book 2 - Ever Mine
Book 3 - Make You Mine
Book 4 - Simply Mine
Book 5 - Only Mine
Topics and Key Themes
Narrative Tropes
Slow Burn
He Falls First
Workplace Romance
Second Chance Romance
Sports Romance
Key Themes
Grief as a reason to run — loss reshaped Sloane into someone who chooses distance over love.
The client who knows your history — professional boundaries collapse when your past walks in.
First love that never fully healed — Hawk left a mark nine years couldn't erase.
Rebuilding trust after silence — rekindled feelings demand honesty neither was ready to give.
Small-town roots pulling you back — Honey Mountain makes running from the past nearly impossible.
Who is this book for?
Primary Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5: Spicy
Open-door romance with balance. You’ll find some on-page intimacy with moderate detail, woven into the story. A sweet spot for readers who enjoy both emotional depth and a bit of steam.
Fans of Devney Perry and second-chance small-town romance will enjoy the emotionally charged rekindled love story, grief-laced backstory, and steamy hockey romance at the heart of Ever Mine.
About the Author
Laura Pavlov writes sweet and sexy contemporary romance that will make you both laugh and cry. She is happily married to her college sweetheart, mom to two awesome almost-grown kids, and dog-whisperer to one temperamental yorkie and one wild bernedoodle. Laura resides in Las Vegas where she is living her own happily ever after. laurapavlov.com
Similar Authors
Penelope Ward, Devney Perry, Lena Hendrix
Reader FAQs
It carries significant emotional weight. Grief is central to Sloane's character and explains nine years of distance, so the story deals with loss and its long-term effects on intimacy and trust, not just romantic tension between two people rekindling a connection.
Ever Mine shares Perry's grounded emotional tone and small-town setting, but adds a sports romance layer through Hawk's hockey career. The pacing is similarly deliberate, with relationship development rooted in character backstory rather than plot-driven conflict.
The hockey element provides context for Hawk's character rather than driving the plot. Readers unfamiliar with sports romance will find the focus is on the emotional relationship and personal history between the two leads, not on the sport itself.
Ever Mine is rated at a mid-range spice level — steamy but not explicit. The romantic and physical relationship between Hawk and Sloane is a clear part of the story, though the emotional and interpersonal tension carries equal narrative weight.
The combination of a grief-driven emotional backstory, a professional boundary conflict — Sloane is Hawk's hired publicist — and nine years of unresolved history gives the slow burn a specific tension that goes beyond standard rekindled-romance setups.
Info
ISBN: 9781649378668
Published Date: February 18, 2025
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Language: English
Page Count: 315
Size: 8.13" l x 5.63" w x 0.88" h
Category
Fiction