Knot Supposed To Happen – Paperback

She’s been a Beta for thirty-three years. One infuriating fire chief is about to change everything.

Winnie Gardener has spent thirty-three years being perfectly happy as a Beta. She keeps Knotty Pine running despite Fire Chief Zach Pike’s best efforts to tell her what she can and can’t do. They’ve been arguing for years about fire lanes, festival permits, and whether she understands the meaning of the word safety.

For the record, she does. She just doesn’t appreciate Zach explaining it to her.

Then she presents at Applefest. Presenting as an Omega at thirty-three is rare. It’s also wildly inconvenient, especially when her ex-fianc shows up with plans to merge Knotty Pine’s fire department right out of existence. Winnie has a town to protect, an ex to put in his place, and absolutely no time for a first heat.

Unfortunately for Winnie, her biology has other ideas.

The last Alpha she wants anywhere near her is the only one she trusts. Zach is six feet six inches of stubborn, overprotective fire chief, and he offers to help her through it with an agreement, boundaries, and the promise that nothing happens unless she wants it. Winnie trusts him to keep that promise. What she doesn’t trust is herself. Somewhere between their arguments and the way he takes care of her, she’s starting to want a lot more than a temporary heat partner, and Zach Pike has never done anything halfway.

Knot Supposed to Happen is a steamy, cozy MF Omegaverse romance featuring rivals to lovers, a late-presenting Omega, a protective firefighter Alpha, forced proximity, first-heat caretaking, knotting, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happily ever after.