Romance Readers Rendezvous discussion

Hello!

I'm looking for test readers for Part 1 of my drafted novel, "At the Peak." When it is completed, it will be an adventure romance (mature only / no closed door scenes) with a full plot. Synopsis/blurb for the book is below.

Themes addressed in this story through the main character arcs include carrying guilt and finding self-forgiveness, relearning to trust, and accepting change. There is strong language in the draft suitable for adult readers.

For this round of early/test review, I am looking for readers willing to give feedback along the following topics/lines:

pacing
use of time/flashbacks
thematic/motif laying (what did you pick up on? what imagery? effectively used or overwritten?)
tension/stakes build up without overwriting
Big Picture: were you hooked to read the rest of the book?

If you are interested, please complete the Early Reader Interest Form linked here (https://forms.gle/4rf8g4fVfiqN7CP66) and I will reach out! The form will be open for about a week, before I close it temporarily before the next round of feedback I'll be asking for.

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SYNOPSYS

This story begins in the middle.

Kirana feels the ground under her feet giving way, destabilizing the temporary home she made for herself in tiny Packwood, Washington, in the shadow of Mount Rainier. After a fight that burned her relationship to the ground, the only thing she has to look forward to in Packwood is also her ultimate goal for coming back to Washington after years away: summiting Mount Rainier, on the most challenging but also most famous route to the peak.

Brian thought that after everything Kirana said to him just two days before she left for her ascent up Mount Rainier, that he would get over her quickly--and that after everything he did, that she would never want to see him again. He let his temper take him too far in that fight. And his temper was a dangerous thing. But even still, what they said to each other in that terrible fight hangs in his mind days after the fight, distracting him as he works to protect his home from his own father's mismanagement and his community from collapsing snowfields--terrified to receive the call that Kirana is caught up in another avalanche on the mountain, after fleeing from the one he unleashed on her only days before.

But Kirana and Brian are not the only characters in this love story of finding grace, forgiveness, and balance between extremes. Mount Rainier has her own story she wants heard. A land as resplendent with stories of wild men and Bigfoots as it is with new-born spring life will have its own role to play in the path that Kirana and Brian take back to each other and self-forgiveness.