The Grumpy Mountain Man's Nanny (Small Town Grumpy Sunshine #4)

She ran out of her wedding in a Beetle. He towed her in.

Ivy Montgomery is twenty-eight, a runaway bride above Buena Vista in a dress she never picked, fleeing a fiance who’s been deciding her life since she was twenty-three. Her Beetle dies on the pass.

Somebody has to break the running.

Ethan Cross is a Colorado widower who has not laughed in his own kitchen in twenty months. He builds furniture in a shop behind his cabin, raises a four-year-old daughter named Poppy, and tows Ivy’s Beetle into town because nobody else will.

He offers her the spare room and a summer watching Poppy. With a man whose silence is a fortress and a small girl who decides she is family on the second morning, Ivy discovers the slow, careful way he has of looking at a woman who has finally decided she is staying.

One guest room in his cabin never meant to stay a guest room.

A line in a bathroom window at five forty-three on a Wednesday.

A man in a charcoal suit who has driven a long way to take her back.

If you love grumpy-sunshine widowers with carpentry hands, runaway brides who choose for themselves, found family in a mountain town, and a four-year-old who steals every scene — welcome to Pinewood Ridge.

Reader's A grumpy-sunshine, runaway-bride, single-dad mountain romance with slow-burn heat, found family in a small Colorado town, a possessive widower who builds her a desk before he can say the word, and a wedding in a meadow under early snow. Standalone with HEA and a bonus Special Chapter set one year later.