Claimed by the Mountain Man

She didn’t come to Timber Ridge looking for a man. She came looking for a fresh start.

Twenty-one-year-old Sadie Brookstone has been raising her five-year-old brother since she was barely more than a kid herself. No parents. No safety net. No room for mistakes. She’s got a dead-end waitressing job, an apartment she can barely afford, and a car held together by stubbornness and prayer. She doesn’t need anyone. She’s been proving that for three years.

Then Eli falls on the playground, and the man who shows up isn’t just any first responder.

He’s the kind of man who fixes things. Starting with her.

Luke Donnelly is a volunteer firefighter, a mechanic, and a mountain man who’s spent years alone in a cabin he built with his own hands. He doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t do complicated. But when he crouches on a playground and holds an ice pack to a five-year-old’s arm, something shifts. And when he looks up at the kid’s fierce, stubborn, beautiful sister, he knows he’s done for.

He shows up the next day. And the next. He fixes her stairs. Her car. Her faucet. He reads her brother truck books until the kid falls asleep on his shoulder. He doesn’t ask for anything. He doesn’t expect anything.

He just stays.

But Sadie knows better than to trust a man who seems too good to be true…

When an eviction notice threatens to tear apart the fragile life she’s built, Luke offers her everything — his home, his heart, his future. All she has to do is let go of the one thing that’s kept her standing: the belief that she has to do it all alone.

Claimed by the Mountain Man is Book 2 in the Timber Ridge Fire & Rescue series. It features a grumpy-soft protective mountain man, a fiercely independent heroine, an adorable found family, and enough heat to melt the snow off the ridge. Instalove. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Happily ever after guaranteed.

Tropes readers love: Mountain Man Romance • Instalove • Small Town Romance • Firefighter Hero • Found Family • Protective Hero • Virgin Heroine • Age Gap • He Falls First • Grumpy-Soft Hero • Single Guardian Heroine