Love’s Landing Zone
Dana Winston
Could you fall for someone whose biggest secret puts your own career on the line?
Tommy LaRoche was the best pilot Ruby had ever flown with. He was also hiding something that could get them both killed.
As a flight medic, Ruby Olsen’s career depends on control, but she’s losing it fast around her partner—a six-foot-two river cowboy with a quiet confidence that unravels her.
Living at his family’s fish camp, she finds herself drawn into his world. He sees past the competent medic to the woman underneath, and his steady support becomes the one thing she can’t live without. But the closer they get, the more she fears his carefully guarded secret is a danger to them both.
With a high-stakes government evaluation threatening to ground their program for good, Ruby must convince the man she’s falling for to trust her with his career—and his heart—before they lose their jobs, their grant, and a love that’s just beginning to take flight.
Book Information
Author: Dana Winston
Available on: September 17th, 2025
Series: Alaska Rugged Heart Series
Imprint: Lovelace Lit
Word Count: 36K
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Medical Romance, Romance, Small Town Romance
Formats Available: Ebook
ISBNs: 978-1-966024-12-5
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Chapters from Love’s Landing Zone...
Love’s Landing Zone – Chapter 1
Ruby Olsen’s truck hit another pothole, jostling her spine. Her left tire smacked the edge of a muddy rut, and she muttered, “Cool.
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Ruby had survived the salmon-slick chaos of Driftwood Cabin’s welcome party, dodged a drone crash, and fended off Beau’s livestream ambush with only minimal trauma. She’d even somewhat filleted fish...
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Ruby was not running away from the audit debrief, but if anyone had suggested a post-evaluator bonfire involving s’mores and minor arson, she might have volunteered the gasoline. Instead, she...
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Ruby stared at the PowerPoint slide flickering on the conference room screen and wondered if spontaneous combustion was covered under their health insurance. “Remote telemedicine integration,” she read aloud, her...
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Ruby stared at the radio station’s call letters painted on the glass door and her stomach attempted a complicated gymnastics routine. “KFIN 94.
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Ruby had been going through supplies when the emergency tone sounded at Hope-Three base. “Wildfire evacuation, Smoke Island,” Tommy’s voice crackled over the comm as she jogged toward the bird.
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Ruby woke up to the sound of chaos and what might have been a minor explosion. She stumbled to her window and looked down at the backyard, where the LaRoche...
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Ruby was reviewing her slides for the rescheduled grant presentation when the world tilted sideways. It started as it always did—a tiny flicker at the edge of her vision, like...
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Ruby stared at the email on her phone and her stomach dropped somewhere around her ankles. “State schedules what now.
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Ruby stared at the speech notes crumpled in her sweaty palm and wondered if it was too late to fake food poisoning. “It’s two minutes,” she muttered to herself, standing...
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They left the festival a few hours later. Tommy’s hand rode high on her thigh as he drove, thumb stroking absent circles.
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Half an hour later, a commotion on the porch had everyone back outside. “It’s not that bad,” Nick was saying, holding up a piece of what used to be a...
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“Ginger-decaf silence latte,” Tommy said, testing his grandfather’s rebuilt headset one more time. “Dmitri’s latest creation.
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Ruby stood at the edge of Portage Lake, listening to the ADHEMS evaluator Marisol Vega check her clipboard for the third time in five minutes. The woman’s expression hadn’t shifted...
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Two weeks later, Ruby stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom at Driftwood Cabin trying to decide if her deep blue dress was appropriate for what Sloane had...
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The end-of-season smokehouse bash was a LaRoche family tradition at its finest, which meant controlled chaos with excellent food and questionable decision-making involving explosives. Ruby stood on the cabin’s back...
Read NowLove’s Landing Zone – Epilogue
The morning of Ruby and Tommy’s wedding was crisp and clear, with the September air making everything shine like it had been freshly polished. Ruby stood at the window of...
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