She came to read what was underneath. She didn’t expect him to be there.
Dr. Nora Voss has been on twenty-four job sites in two years. She knows exactly what every kind of look from every kind of man means. Hostile. Skeptical. Indulgent. She has a category for all of them.
She doesn’t have one for Beau Callahan.
Nora arrives at the Clearwater Lodge excavation with a county permit, a geological probe array, and seven days to answer one question. The machines have gone quiet. Work has stopped. And the only person on site who knows this hillside well enough to safely guide her through it is the largest, quietest man she has ever met. A man who reads the land the way she reads data, by feel and grade and twenty years of watching how water moves.
She’s there to find out what’s underneath the surface.
She wasn’t expecting the answer to be standing right next to her.
Grounded by the Mountain Man is a steamy small-town romance featuring a broody outdoorsman hero, a brilliant heroine who doesn’t know she’s been waiting for him, and a love story that builds the way Beau builds everything, one solid layer at a time.