She's running the Wildflower Festival. I’m running out of reasons to let her leave the mountain when it ends.
Roddy
I spent twenty years walking into structure fires. Now I run search and rescue out of a cabin above Blue Water Ridge and answer to no one.
The festival hired me to lead the wildflower hikes. Easy work, decent view, nothing in that town worth coming down for.
Then I meet the woman running it.
Heather Bosch is the sharpest mind in every meeting. She's all soft curves and command, running a county festival on pure will. Somebody taught her that asking for help costs too much, and I'm about to make that lesson useless.
So I take the clipboard out of her hand. Bring her food she didn't ask for. Stand between her and anything that gets too close, where the whole town can watch me do it.
When a sudden storm washes out the trail with both of us above the treeline, I quit pretending this is a summer job.
The wildflowers will be gone by September, but she's not going anywhere.
Heather
I'm fifty-one, I've built something that's mine, and I don't need rescuing.
Then Roddy Frey shows up with those hands and that steady voice, watching me work like it's the best thing on this mountain. He doesn't fix me. He clears my path and dares me to want more.
He takes care of my needs before I ask, and he won't let me carry a thing. A storm puts us alone in an old fire cabin, and he puts his hands on every curve I've spent thirty years hiding.
When he claims me in front of the entire festival, I stop waiting for him to change his mind.
He made his choice before I handed him the trail map. I'm the one who took nine days to catch up.
Tropes You'll Love
Possessive ex-firefighter SAR hero
Quiet mountain man with rescuer instincts
Curvy, competent, burned-out event planner heroine
Instalove (he falls first, claims hard)
Forced proximity
Summer mountain storm and one fire cabin
Acts of service devotion
Body-positive worship and praise
Size difference
Later in life
Summer festival
Public small-town claiming
SAR brotherhood and found family
Low-angst steamy comfort read
Guaranteed forever HEA
This steamy escape delivers instalove, instant obsession, no cliffhangers, and no cheating. Safe, swoony, and just the right length for a satisfying binge.
Part of the A Mountain Man Summer series.
What to expect from Tiffany Bloom's stories
My stories bring the steam and the heart, full of feeling, a little sweet, and a little addictive. You'll always get a safe, satisfying love story with a guaranteed HEA every time.
Roddy
I spent twenty years walking into structure fires. Now I run search and rescue out of a cabin above Blue Water Ridge and answer to no one.
The festival hired me to lead the wildflower hikes. Easy work, decent view, nothing in that town worth coming down for.
Then I meet the woman running it.
Heather Bosch is the sharpest mind in every meeting. She's all soft curves and command, running a county festival on pure will. Somebody taught her that asking for help costs too much, and I'm about to make that lesson useless.
So I take the clipboard out of her hand. Bring her food she didn't ask for. Stand between her and anything that gets too close, where the whole town can watch me do it.
When a sudden storm washes out the trail with both of us above the treeline, I quit pretending this is a summer job.
The wildflowers will be gone by September, but she's not going anywhere.
Heather
I'm fifty-one, I've built something that's mine, and I don't need rescuing.
Then Roddy Frey shows up with those hands and that steady voice, watching me work like it's the best thing on this mountain. He doesn't fix me. He clears my path and dares me to want more.
He takes care of my needs before I ask, and he won't let me carry a thing. A storm puts us alone in an old fire cabin, and he puts his hands on every curve I've spent thirty years hiding.
When he claims me in front of the entire festival, I stop waiting for him to change his mind.
He made his choice before I handed him the trail map. I'm the one who took nine days to catch up.
Tropes You'll Love
Possessive ex-firefighter SAR hero
Quiet mountain man with rescuer instincts
Curvy, competent, burned-out event planner heroine
Instalove (he falls first, claims hard)
Forced proximity
Summer mountain storm and one fire cabin
Acts of service devotion
Body-positive worship and praise
Size difference
Later in life
Summer festival
Public small-town claiming
SAR brotherhood and found family
Low-angst steamy comfort read
Guaranteed forever HEA
This steamy escape delivers instalove, instant obsession, no cliffhangers, and no cheating. Safe, swoony, and just the right length for a satisfying binge.
Part of the A Mountain Man Summer series.
What to expect from Tiffany Bloom's stories
My stories bring the steam and the heart, full of feeling, a little sweet, and a little addictive. You'll always get a safe, satisfying love story with a guaranteed HEA every time.