Row-mantically Challenged

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Genres

Romance, Grumpy / Sunshine, Found Family, Forced Proximity, Enemies To Lovers, Comedy Romance, Contemporary, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Sex, Profanity, and Depression

Type of Ending

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Series

First in series

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Publication Date

Oct 13, 2026

Page Length

639 pages

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Row-mantically Challenged

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Blurb

Row, row, row your boat… Gently? Doesn’t look like it. Merrily? Definitely not.

For a woman looking for a fresh start and a man determined not to give her one, life on the rapids is anything but a dream.

Myles Tate is supposed to be finishing her last year of med school. Instead, an unsettling revelation has left her standing knee-deep in a freezing Oregon river, wondering if rock bottom includes working as a whitewater rafting guide for the summer. At least her new boss is a real treat for the eyes. Unfortunately, he's made it abundantly clear that he doesn't want her there. Too bad he's just turned himself into her new favorite challenge.

Weston Olin used to love the river. But that was before tragedy struck and left him carrying around enough guilt to drown in it. The last thing he needs is an endlessly chatty new coworker crashing into his world with too much honesty and a habit of looking at him like he's worth more than the worst thing that's ever happened to him.

As summer unfolds, so do feelings neither of them can ignore. But can two people running from their past find something worth holding on to? Or will the current they've been trying to outrun inevitably pull them apart?

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Genres

Romance, Grumpy / Sunshine, Found Family, Forced Proximity, Enemies To Lovers, Comedy Romance, Contemporary, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Sex, Profanity, and Depression

Type of Ending

AI Usage^Beta

Series

First in series

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

193

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Oct 13, 2026

Page Length

639 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

I'm Kristen B. Cole, and I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome you to my corner of the literary world!

If you’re looking for a one sentence bio, here it is: I’m the wife to a handsome cyber-security expert (so my WIFI is basically Fort Knox), mom to two beautiful terrorists, I mean toddlers, and a full time nurse, who decided that I’d rather spend all my free time stressing over writing / publishing books instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of curling up with a good one.

If you’re anything like me, then you tell yourself stories right before bed, releasing your deepest, darkest fantasies into dreamland to go absolutely nowhere but the recesses of your mind. But now, a few of them escaped from my cranial closet and have made it out into the world.