The Mountain Man Next Door

She rented a remote cabin outside Wildwood for two weeks of quiet after a gun was pointed at her face, not to fall for anyone.

The place has no electricity, and her neighbor is Griffin Hale, a massive ex-military mountain man whose first words make it clear he does not do people.

Then he finds her freezing in the dark, and something shifts in those ice-blue eyes.

She tells herself not to get attached to a gruff, damaged man who has hidden on this mountain for eight years, even as he shows her a hidden waterfall and looks at her as if she is not broken.

Two weeks was only meant to be an escape, and she is still jumping at shadows.

Trusting someone new—especially a man who has spent nearly a decade believing he is better off alone—may be more than she can risk.