Broken Mountain Man And the Curvy Baker
(2026)(Book 25 in the Sexy Mountain Man Flame series)
A novel by Emily Crescent
He left a note on my porch and a warm croissant. I'm good. Need air.
Jonah Pike: flannel on his shoulders, hands rough as fence posts, eyes that hold storm-weather and sorrow. He carries woodsmoke like cologne. He fixes more than fences. He fixes things by showing up. He also keeps a dead woman's name like a weight in his chest. He bolts when the past roars.
I found him carrying a bleeding mutt at dusk. I wrapped bandages. He wrapped shelter around us. He fed me stew, then stole my biscuits, then kissed me like he was trying to remember how to breathe. We braided dough, fixed a fence, made a list—therapy, sunrises, check-ins. We bled into one another and it felt dangerously right.
Then Nora whispered. The town watched. He vanished into the night twice. I learned his ghosts are loud. My old abandonment lives in the bakery light. His guilt says leaving is protection. My heart says fight.
He promises to try. I promise not to run first.
Will his trying be enough to keep him here when the smoke remembers how to speak?
Genre: Romance
Jonah Pike: flannel on his shoulders, hands rough as fence posts, eyes that hold storm-weather and sorrow. He carries woodsmoke like cologne. He fixes more than fences. He fixes things by showing up. He also keeps a dead woman's name like a weight in his chest. He bolts when the past roars.
I found him carrying a bleeding mutt at dusk. I wrapped bandages. He wrapped shelter around us. He fed me stew, then stole my biscuits, then kissed me like he was trying to remember how to breathe. We braided dough, fixed a fence, made a list—therapy, sunrises, check-ins. We bled into one another and it felt dangerously right.
Then Nora whispered. The town watched. He vanished into the night twice. I learned his ghosts are loud. My old abandonment lives in the bakery light. His guilt says leaving is protection. My heart says fight.
He promises to try. I promise not to run first.
Will his trying be enough to keep him here when the smoke remembers how to speak?
Genre: Romance