Braving the Storm
Elliott Rose
Crimson Ridge #2
Welcome to Crimson Ridge: The Cowboy Romance Series by Elliott Rose
Cover and Synopsis
Braving the Storm Cover & Blurb
I’m not supposed to feel this way…
I never wanted to disappear more than while around my family. Briar Lane, the girl only useful for one thing: my surname. A business handshake and pawn to be traded. My father’s chess piece shuffled between empires.
That was my life back in L.A., but all it took was finding the dirty secret stuffed in a jacket pocket, and my entire world unraveled.
So, I fled to the one place I knew they could never find me: Crimson Ridge.
Arriving in this snowy, harsh world, I thought I’d be starting over on my own, but it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. The abandoned mountain cabin I inherited isn’t what it seems.
This mountain hides secrets. An ex-pro bull rider consumes this space, and now, my every thought with it… Stôrmand Lane. My father’s adopted brother.
We should never have found ourselves isolated out here in the mountains together, each trying to outrun our pasts.
All it took was one misunderstanding, one line almost crossed, and everything changed.
A girl like me isn’t supposed to know what those tattooed hands feel like, and I’m certainly not meant to feel butterflies anytime that pair of piercing blue eyes land on mine.
He might be my every fantasy, a cowboy I constantly dream about, but he’s a temptation I have to ignore. A man I absolutely cannot find myself attracted to.
Even when he’s looking at me with the kind of hunger that can only spell ruin for us both.
Long, dark nights spent in this tiny cabin can’t be the excuse to step into forbidden territory.
Or can they?
Book Information
Braving the STorm
Published March 2026 by Kensington Books.
Braving the Storm was originally independently published by Elliott Rose.
Genre : Romance
Pages : 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Braving the Storm Dedication
For the readers ready to wear the cuff and get on their knees…
Uncle Storm will take good care of you.
If you beg nicely, that is.
Braving the Storm Tropes
Hand necklace
Taboo – adopted uncle x estranged niece
Public play
Light edging
Free use
Degradation
Toys
Light somnophilia
Double penetration
Review
Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose
We love Elliott Rose over here. Back in the Spring, I blew through the Port Macabre series. It was fantastic. If Dark Polyamorous Romances are your jam, check it out. After attempting the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver, I was leery of reading another cowboy romance but Braving the Storm caught my eye. I knew, if anyone was to write a cowboy romance up my alley it would be Rose.
Spoilers Sweetie : Jump down to my Final Thoughts to avoid them.
- Well, this is going to be interesting.
- Girl, who’s cabin do you think you’re in?
- I too am an inanimate objects have a home person.
- I love that she’s attempting to name the cabin.
- Crimson Ridge may as well be in Alberta.
- Crispin is a fucking bitch.
- He is funny.
- Imagine your adopted uncle strutting in to check on you while you are in the shower rubbing one out after spending the night in the same bed because you might have a concussion.
- Fuck me. That’s one hell of a lesson.
- What shitstorm Storm? Don’t just gloss over it.
- Storm. I’m in book love.
- Girl.
- Sir.
- Fucking hell.
- Oh no.
- I dispise these two fuckers.
- Stick it to ‘em
- I love Layla.
Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose Review
Minor Spoilers
Do I need to stop staring at my uncle’s ass in those jeans?
Absolutely.
Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose is book two in the Crimson Ridge series. And yes, I did in fact start this series with the second book. Crimson Ridge is an interconnected standalone series. You do not need to read every book or in chronological order to enjoy it. The tropes in Braving the Storm are right up my alley- adopted uncle x estranged niece, age gap taboo goodness.
Briar has been having an awful time lately. Her sister is the absolute worst and she just caught her bf cheating. So she does what any girl with a cabin in the mountains would do. She runs away. Only she’s never laid eyes on the cabin and her father neglected to tell her his estranged adopted brother lived there. Poor Briar was ill prepared for life in the snowy mountain town of Crimson Ridge. Or her uncle and his lessons.
I did not expect to fall in love with the grumpy ex-pro bull rider Stôrmand Lane. I am not at all surprised though, Rose can write a fantastic mmc. Storm’s reclusive life in Crimson Ridge is turned upside down the night he comes home and mistakes his estranged niece for a buckle bunny.
Braving the Storm is a slow burn romance. The tension between Briar and Storm as they maneuver their way around the tiny one room cabin is exquisite. The dual pov style writing works wonders, giving us the full experience of the forbidden fire smoldering between the two characters.
I went into Braving the Storm knowing the plot would be a lot lighter than the Port Macabre series. For me, when it comes to romance, the darker the better. Even though Braving the Storm is light and fluffy, I had an amazing time reading it. Both of the main characters were great and the plot was fun. In fact I liked it so much I am going to go back and read book one, Chasing the Wild.
Quotes
Braving the Storm Quotes
Spice
Braving the Storm Spicy Chapters
12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 33, 34, 36, 38, Epilogue
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