Broken Mountain Man And the Curvy Teacher
(2026)(Book 18 in the Sexy Mountain Man Flame series)
A novel by Emily Crescent
I came to Wavemeet to teach first-graders their ABCs. I didn't plan on falling for one of their dads.
Lionel Moss — blacksmith, mountain man, hands rough with soot and a heart wrecked by grief. He lost his wife the day his son was born. He doesn't smile. He doesn't let people in. He definitely doesn't need a teacher with her own mess following her through town.
But his boy? Lester grabbed my hand after school, bought me ice cream with his sock money, and told me I made him feel what it's like to have a mom.
Then Lester collapsed in my classroom. The diagnosis hit like a sledgehammer — the same thing that killed his mother.
I promised that boy I'd be there every single day. I kept that promise. And somewhere between hospital hallways and tears I couldn't stop, his father stopped pushing me away.
Now Lester's calling me Mom. Lionel's arms feel like the only safe place left. And I'm terrified of losing them both.
He says I'm holding him together. But he doesn't know — he's holding me together too.
Genre: Romance
Lionel Moss — blacksmith, mountain man, hands rough with soot and a heart wrecked by grief. He lost his wife the day his son was born. He doesn't smile. He doesn't let people in. He definitely doesn't need a teacher with her own mess following her through town.
But his boy? Lester grabbed my hand after school, bought me ice cream with his sock money, and told me I made him feel what it's like to have a mom.
Then Lester collapsed in my classroom. The diagnosis hit like a sledgehammer — the same thing that killed his mother.
I promised that boy I'd be there every single day. I kept that promise. And somewhere between hospital hallways and tears I couldn't stop, his father stopped pushing me away.
Now Lester's calling me Mom. Lionel's arms feel like the only safe place left. And I'm terrified of losing them both.
He says I'm holding him together. But he doesn't know — he's holding me together too.
Genre: Romance