Guarded by the Mountain Man

She inherited twenty-two acres and a plan to disappear. She didn’t inherit him.

Running from a stalker with nowhere left to go, Tessa Yates drives up a Montana mountain pass to a cabin she’s owned for two years and never visited. No signal. No neighbors. No way for him to find her.

Except the man at the tree line on her first day isn’t a neighbor. He’s Rhett Jacobson, former special operations, off-grid by choice, volunteer firefighter, and the last person who should make her pulse go up when she’s trying to stay invisible.

Rhett isn’t looking for anything. He stopped looking years ago. But the woman next door checks the road like she’s waiting for something to come up it, and he’s read enough situations to know the difference between careful and afraid.

He runs her name. He doesn’t like what he finds.

So he stays close, dropping firewood at her gate, fixing her pump, driving her into town, telling himself it’s what any decent neighbor would do. Not telling himself what it means when she starts leaving her door cracked to hear the pines.

When the threat she thought she’d outrun finally arrives, Rhett is already standing in the road.

Spicy instalove romance. Strong alpha hero. Guaranteed HEA.

Guarded by the Mountain Man is Book 4 in the Timber Ridge Mountain Men series. Each book is a standalone.

Tropes: Mountain Man • Instalove • He Falls First • Protector Hero • Ex-Military • Off-Grid Living • Forced Proximity • Small Town Romance • Stalker Threat • Virgin Heroine • Found Family • Steamy/Spicy Romance • Alpha Hero • Curvy Heroine