Kept By The Mountain Man
(2026)(A book in the Crimson Hollow: Kane Brothers series)
A novel by Deidre-Ann Anderson
I'm Darius Kane. The oldest. The one who was supposed to hold everyone together after our father died.
Instead I paint. I disappear into my studio for days, come out with color under my fingernails and nothing useful to show for it. My brothers run a vineyard, a kink club, an empire. I make art nobody sees and pretend that's enough.
Then Ayanna Bishop shows up at Iron Vine Estate with a business proposal, a portfolio thicker than my ego, and a body that makes me forget every brushstroke I've ever learned.
She's a gallery curator from Vancouver. Polished, precise, and here to turn our dusty wine cellar into an art exhibition space that puts Crimson Hollow on the cultural map. She sees my work before she sees me, and the way her breath catches when she touches the canvas is the most honest thing anyone's given me in years.
Problem is, she has a rule. She doesn't get involved with her artists. Ever.
Bigger problem. I don't follow rules. I make them.
She thinks she can keep this professional. She thinks her tailored blazers and color coded binders are armor I can't get through. She doesn't know that I've spent my whole life studying the space between what people show the world and what they hide underneath.
And what Ayanna's hiding is a woman who's spent so long curating everyone else's beauty that she forgot she's the masterpiece.
I'm going to remind her. On canvas. On her knees. In every room of this estate until she stops running from the one man who sees her completely.
Kept By The Mountain Man features the eldest Kane brother finally claiming what's his, a fiercely independent curator who swore off artists after the last one nearly destroyed her career, and the kind of slow, deliberate seduction that starts with a paintbrush tracing her collarbone and ends with both of them wrecked. This is an age-gap, grumpy artist/polished professional, BDSM romance with voyeuristic art scenes, praise kink, and a hero who paints his woman like she's sacred and worships her like she's sin. Guaranteed HEA. Can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Romance
Instead I paint. I disappear into my studio for days, come out with color under my fingernails and nothing useful to show for it. My brothers run a vineyard, a kink club, an empire. I make art nobody sees and pretend that's enough.
Then Ayanna Bishop shows up at Iron Vine Estate with a business proposal, a portfolio thicker than my ego, and a body that makes me forget every brushstroke I've ever learned.
She's a gallery curator from Vancouver. Polished, precise, and here to turn our dusty wine cellar into an art exhibition space that puts Crimson Hollow on the cultural map. She sees my work before she sees me, and the way her breath catches when she touches the canvas is the most honest thing anyone's given me in years.
Problem is, she has a rule. She doesn't get involved with her artists. Ever.
Bigger problem. I don't follow rules. I make them.
She thinks she can keep this professional. She thinks her tailored blazers and color coded binders are armor I can't get through. She doesn't know that I've spent my whole life studying the space between what people show the world and what they hide underneath.
And what Ayanna's hiding is a woman who's spent so long curating everyone else's beauty that she forgot she's the masterpiece.
I'm going to remind her. On canvas. On her knees. In every room of this estate until she stops running from the one man who sees her completely.
Kept By The Mountain Man features the eldest Kane brother finally claiming what's his, a fiercely independent curator who swore off artists after the last one nearly destroyed her career, and the kind of slow, deliberate seduction that starts with a paintbrush tracing her collarbone and ends with both of them wrecked. This is an age-gap, grumpy artist/polished professional, BDSM romance with voyeuristic art scenes, praise kink, and a hero who paints his woman like she's sacred and worships her like she's sin. Guaranteed HEA. Can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Romance