Stranded with the Protective Mountain Man

I live alone for a reason.

Twelve years as a wildland firefighter taught me that the world burns whether you're paying attention or not. So I left the hotshot crews, bought eighty acres on the back side of the mountain, and built a life I could control. Off-grid cabin. Solar panels. Garden. No neighbors for three miles. No complications.

Then a thunderstorm rolls in and I find a woman on my access road with a flat tire, a soaked sundress, and a rental car that's never going to make it out of the mud.

Wren Halloway is a wedding photographer who took a wrong turn looking for a venue scout location. She's stranded. The road's washed out. Cell service is gone. And the only dry bed within ten miles is in my cabin.

She talks too much. Smiles too easy. Asks questions I haven't answered in years. And every time the thunder cracks, she ends up a little closer to me on the couch.

Three days. That's how long the road takes to clear. Three days of her humming in my kitchen, wearing my flannel, and looking at me like I'm not the broken thing I know I am.

When the road clears, she's supposed to leave.

I'm supposed to let her.

I'm not going to.

Stranded With The Protective Mountain Man is a scorching mountain man romance featuring a former wildland firefighter who built his life around solitude, the sunshine wedding photographer who washes onto his doorstep in a summer storm, and three days of forced proximity that rewrites everything he thought he wanted. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.