Hidden Mountain Man (Hot Mountain Nights 2)

He was hired to make her disappear. He didn’t expect her to be impossible to forget.

When a high-profile witness needs to vanish before trial, private security contractor Clark Baxter gets the call. His instructions are simple: pick her up, take her off-grid, bring her back alive.

No questions. No complications. No exceptions.

He’s kept harder people safe in worse conditions. Isla Montgomery won’t be a problem. She’s a problem.

Isla has spent three years building an airtight case against people who didn’t want her to. She knows how to manage risk, manage appearances, and manage men who underestimate her.

What she doesn’t know how to manage is a gruff, silent mountain man who confiscates her phone, gives orders instead of explanations, and sees through every layer of armor she’s spent years constructing.

One cabin. No cell service. Nowhere to run from each other. As the hours stretch into days and the threat outside grows closer, the forced proximity becomes something neither of them planned for.

Clark doesn’t get involved with clients. Isla knows better than to trust a man built on silence and restraint. But when the only option is hiding, resisting each other becomes its own kind of danger.

He was hired to protect her. He wasn’t supposed to want to keep her.

Hidden Mountain Man is a steamy standalone mountain romance featuring a grumpy off-grid protector, a fiercely competent city woman out of her depth, forced proximity, one bed, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

It’s part of the Bitterroot Ridge Bodyguards series as well as the Hot Mountain Nights 2 multi-author series.