Wildest Dreams: A Second Chance Military Romance

Lea Coll

Dec 2025 · Lea Coll

About this ebook

Renovating a mountain bed-and-breakfast was supposed to be my fresh start—until the only man who can save the project is the one who once shattered my heart.

We were high school sweethearts before he left for the Army and I left town, both of us swearing goodbye meant forever. Now we’re back in our hometown, older, wiser… and dangerously aware of everything we used to be. He’s working for his brothers’ contracting business. I’m racing the holidays to finish the inn. Fate, apparently, has a twisted sense of humor.

When he asks me to be his holidate—just a friendly favor, a few festive events, nothing more—I tell myself I can handle it. We’re adults. The past is buried. Sparks don’t reignite that easily.

Except they do.

Every stolen glance, every brush of his hand, every memory we swore we’d forgotten pulls us closer. The chemistry is still there—hotter, deeper, and impossible to ignore. But falling for him again means risking everything I rebuilt after he left.

This time, will we finally fight for our forever… or are we destined to break each other’s hearts all over again?

Ratings and reviews

A wonderful start to a new small town romance series! The first book in the Sterling Brothers starts off with Ford and Natasha’s story. They were high school sweethearts that ended with heartbreak when he enters the military. Fast forward and they find themselves in the same town and reconnect. I enjoyed how their storyline is filled with all the feels and will have you cheering for their forever. I can’t wait for more of this new series!

Wildest Dreams is a captivating start to Lea Doll’s new Sterling Brothers series. A classic second-chance small town romance, the story follows high school sweethearts Ford and Natasha, who are reunited years after a devastating breakup. When Ford, an ex-military man turned contractor, is hired to renovate Natasha’s inn, their old flame reignites instantly. Set in a charming "Christmas town," this feel-good holiday read perfectly balances simmering chemistry with emotional growth.

Wildest Dreams is Ford Sterling and Natasha’s second chance at love story set in a small Christmas town in Colorado. It’s book one in The Sterling Brothers Series and it’s a great start to the new family I want more from. It’s a well written, charming, captivating and entertaining story that holiday movies are made from. Natasha and Ford were high school sweethearts but she went off to college and he joined the military. Long distance was never going to work but now they back home

About the author

Lea Coll is a USA Today bestselling author who writes sweet and sexy happily ever afters. She worked as a trial attorney for over ten years. Now she stays home with her three children, plotting stories while fetching snacks and running them back and forth to activities. She enjoys the freedom of writing romance after years of legal writing.