Tempted by the Mountain Man

She came to Timber Ridge to prove she could do it alone. He showed up anyway.

Rowan West has a dead aunt’s bookstore, a savings account that’s running out, and the stubborn belief that she can renovate a crumbling building by herself. She’s spent her whole life being underestimated, and she’s done with it.

Then she accidentally sets the building on fire.

He’s the best contractor in town. He’s also the most impossible man she’s ever met.

Jason Nichols is a volunteer firefighter, a master builder, and the kind of grumpy mountain man who doesn’t own a kitchen table because that would mean inviting someone to sit at it. He tells her the building will kill her if she keeps going alone. She tells him she doesn’t need a stranger with a hero complex.

He shows up the next morning at six a.m. with a truck full of tools.

Every day they work side by side, the building gets stronger. So does the thing between them.

They argue about everything and agree on nothing, and the space between them keeps getting smaller until there’s no space left at all. He kisses her like he’s been thinking about it for a week. She kisses him back like she’s done pretending she hasn’t.

But wanting him feels like proof she couldn’t do it alone. And he doesn’t need her to need him. He needs her to choose him.

Tempted by the Mountain Man is Book 3 in the Timber Ridge Fire & Rescue series. Instalove. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Happily ever after guaranteed.

Tropes: Mountain Man Romance • Instalove • Small Town Romance • Grumpy x Stubborn • Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Firefighter Hero • Contractor Hero • Workplace Romance • Protective Hero • He Falls First • Virgin Heroine • Curvy Heroine • Age Gap • Blue Collar Hero