Guided by the Mountain Man

She came for the photographs. He’s keeping the photographer.

Sophie Lancaster has two weeks in the mountains, a magazine pitch she stopped checking on six months ago, and one shot at the wilderness frames that could change her career. What she does not have is a guide, until her best friend’s husband makes a phone call to the most reclusive man in Timber Ridge.

Knox Stevenson does not take clients in the shoulder season. He does not take clients to the places he’s about to take her. And he definitely does not take clients who walk into his trailhead at sunrise with a camera around their neck and a smile that knocks his careful, six-years-in-the-making life sideways inside of ninety seconds.

He tells himself it’s a job. He tells himself for about ten minutes.

By day four, he’s making her dinner on a backcountry log. By day five, he’s kissing her on a ridge in the gold light at 5:07in the morning. By day nine, the magazine she pitched six months ago calls back, and the assignment is three months away in another state, starting in five weeks.

Knox is the kind of man who decides things and stands on the call. He’s done long distance once before, and it gutted him. He doesn’t have the part of himself you do that with anymore.

Sophie isn’t asking him to.

She’s asking him for something harder.

Guided by the Mountain Man is a spicy, age-gap, instalove standalone in the Timber Ridge Mountain Men series. Expect: a grumpy reclusive guide, a heroine who gets her shot, a backcountry overnight that changes everything, and a man who builds her something with his own two hands while she’s three thousand miles away figuring out if she can come home to him.

No cheating. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

Each book in the Timber Ridge Fire and Rescue series can be read as a standalone, but there are a few character cross-overs.