🏔️ Behind the Scenes of Finishing a Romance Series… and Why Saying Goodbye Never Gets Easier 💔📚

Okay…. 🥁 DRUMROLL PLEASE… 🥁

🔥 The Lumberjack and the Sawmill Jill is officially LIVE… and with it, the Woodhaven Mountain Men series is now COMPLETE 🏔️

And honestly?

Even after twelve years of publishing… this part never changes.

Finishing a series is always emotional for me.

It’s a proud moment, of course. There’s relief and excitement and that little burst of happiness that comes from finally putting the last piece into place. But at the same time?

Part of me always longs for the beginning again.

For that very first spark of an idea.

That moment where a tiny concept suddenly starts growing into something bigger. A setting. A voice. A hero. A scene that won’t leave you alone until you write it down.

Because readers see the finished books on the shelves… but behind the scenes, a series becomes part of your actual life for months, sometimes years.

You spend countless hours building these worlds.

Living inside these characters’ heads.

Plotting their heartbreaks, their healing, their love stories.

There’s emotional energy poured into every chapter.

Physical energy too.

Late nights.
Early mornings.
Rewrites.
Deleted scenes.
Plot tangles.
Random inspiration while folding laundry or driving to the grocery store.
Entire conversations with fictional people living rent free in your brain 😂

And somewhere along the way, these characters stop feeling fictional.

They become people you know.

That’s what happened with Woodhaven.

This series started with one simple idea:

What if I created a lumberjack romance series set somewhere we don’t always see in romance?
And what if the heroines were curvy, resilient, sassy women who knew exactly what they wanted?

So I created a rugged little mountain town in Maine called Woodhaven… and before I knew it, it became real to me.

Woodhaven became towering pines. Dangerous mountains. Snowstorms. Crackling fireplaces. Sawmills. Family dinners. Quiet moments on porches. Men with rough hands and guarded hearts falling hopelessly in love.

And maybe one of my favorite things about writing is this:

Every series I create becomes its own little world… but all of those worlds connect into one giant C.D. Gorri universe.

Characters overlap.
Places get mentioned.
Readers catch little Easter eggs.

In my writer’s brain, one town exists alongside another.

The Wrecked Rockstar world.
Woodhaven.
Dry Creek.
Castor’s Corner.
The Asgarheim Runevald Institute.

To me, they all coexist somewhere out there, connected by little threads readers slowly discover over time 💕

But Woodhaven especially stole a piece of my heart.

These mountain men became the kind of heroes I love writing most—solid, sexy, protective men who love with their whole hearts and would do absolutely anything for the women they claim.

From sawmill-owning bachelors…
to broody billionaire artists…
to sexy silver fox CEOs…

Every man in Woodhaven has his own story.

And every one of them falls HARD when the right woman walks into his life.

So yes… finishing this series feels emotional.

Because closing a series always feels a little like saying goodbye to a place you’ve lived in for a while. But what makes it worth it is knowing readers get to visit those worlds whenever they want. 💕

And now the final story has arrived… I hope you will grab The Lumberjack and the Sawmill Jill . Available wide, direct from my store, and in paperback!

If you love:

🪓 Mountain Men
💋 Curvy Heroines
🏔️ Small Town Romance
🔥 Protective, Possessive Heroes
💞 Later-in-Life & Second Chance Romance
❤️ Found Family & Emotional Healing

…then maybe you’ll even add the full Woodhaven Mountain Men series to your TBR 🥰

Thank you so much for supporting my stories, my worlds, and all the fictional people who completely take over my brain and my heart.

del mare alla stella,
C.D. Gorri