Friday, May 16, 2025

Blog Tour + #Giveaway: Recurve Ridge by Dove Priest @DovePriest @HotTreePromos @hottreepubs



Author: Dove Priest
Title: Recurve Ridge
Series: Savage Mountain, book 1
Genre: Why-Choose Contemporary Dark Romance
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design

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Mari Merripen can’t stay away from bad boys, but when she heads to Recurve Ridge, she crosses paths with men who both desire her and want to destroy her. 

In a terror-fueled haze after being assaulted, Mari races through a forest she doesn’t know, hell-bent on survival. When she crashes into a mountain of a man, she isn’t sure if he’s her salvation… or her new tormentor. She cowers in his home, healing slowly, and vows not to give her heart away. But the five men of Recurve Ridge etch themselves soul deep—from the cheeky bartender to the unyielding outlaw who saved her life but refuses to let her go. Each mirrors her trauma and makes taking her freedom harder with each sunrise.

Robe Huntingdon craves the serenity of the upstate New York mountain range he calls home. Recurve Ridge is perfect, except for the enemy on his doorstep, who earned him a dishonorable discharge. Mari Merripen showcases what he hates about the society that disdains his existence and everything he desires. Torn between giving her the freedom she wants and keeping her against her will, he risks shattering their fragile trust. Robe finally offers her a truth he knows will break her: his enemy is her enemy. 

She can’t go home, just like everyone on Recurve Ridge.

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Mulch scattered beneath my feet as I tore through the forest, its soft crackle overriding a brittle roar that consumed all thought inside my head. 

Get away. Can’t stop. Don’t let them catch me. 

If I went back, I might never get out. 

No “might” about it. I couldn’t go back to that table. The shadows. The hands— 
can’t, can’t, can’t— 

I couldn’t stop, not even if my brain kicked into gear. Something primal had been activated, and my body entered flight mode without my mind’s permission. Not that I needed to give it. Every nerve ending numbed in a desperate bid to survive, leaving me a willing host carried away from horror and death and seeking the facade of freedom and safety.

There was nothing worse in the woods than him. The darkest monsters resided in their plush upper-class digs, not out in the roughened forest like wild mountain men… right?

Wrong.

I would discover just how dark the monsters in the forest could be.

Myself most of all.



DOVE PRIEST writes dark romance with damaged characters and lots of kink from the safety of her own mini mountain where she collects stuffies, corsets and fairytales. She loves to delve into tortured characters, and no kink is sacred, though hard limits may be (sometimes). Robin Hood is her favorite legend, though there are other retellings to come. Dove writes under several pen names, including USA Today bestselling author Sofia Aves. As her other incarnation, Dove acquires young adult books with big issues for Evernight Teen, and spicy romance for Evernight’s adult line. She prefers black coffee, German Shepherds over people, and her very own mountain man.

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