Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws

A small town spicy romance about a gruff mountain man and the fiery animal-rescuing surrogate he hires. It's sure to hit you in the gut with laughs, feels, and mountain man grunts.

I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.

But I can't fault the results once the right woman lands in my lap.

Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it's the biggest decision of my entire life.

Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she's perfect.

She's wild, she's opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her...

She's the exact type of person I was holding out for.

And to my great horror, I realise on our first night of attempting this baby-making dance - when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing and the home-insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter - I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.

I want to make her mine.