Soft Mountain Man And the Curvy Journalist
(2026)(Book 16 in the Sexy Mountain Man Flame series)
A novel by Emily Crescent
He's been my best friend since we were kids. He's never once made a move.
Diego Shelton — mountain mechanic, hands that smell like motor oil and pine, the only person who ever told me to eat the damn cake and stop shrinking for anyone. He drove me home from his best friend's birthday party and something shifted. It never shifted back.
Years. Years of stolen glances, of him opening my truck door even when he was angry, of falling asleep on his shoulder and pretending it meant nothing.
Then he got a girlfriend. Out of nowhere. Stopped answering my calls. Looked through me like I was invisible.
So I put on a red dress and let another man buy me dinner.
Diego carried me out of that bar like a caveman and kissed me against my apartment wall like he'd been starving for it. Turns out there was never a girlfriend. Just a dangerous secret — one that could get us both killed.
He pushed me away to keep me safe. But I'm a journalist, and this story? It's already mine.
Now I'm chasing the truth and falling for the man who's been catching me since day one.
Genre: Romance
Diego Shelton — mountain mechanic, hands that smell like motor oil and pine, the only person who ever told me to eat the damn cake and stop shrinking for anyone. He drove me home from his best friend's birthday party and something shifted. It never shifted back.
Years. Years of stolen glances, of him opening my truck door even when he was angry, of falling asleep on his shoulder and pretending it meant nothing.
Then he got a girlfriend. Out of nowhere. Stopped answering my calls. Looked through me like I was invisible.
So I put on a red dress and let another man buy me dinner.
Diego carried me out of that bar like a caveman and kissed me against my apartment wall like he'd been starving for it. Turns out there was never a girlfriend. Just a dangerous secret — one that could get us both killed.
He pushed me away to keep me safe. But I'm a journalist, and this story? It's already mine.
Now I'm chasing the truth and falling for the man who's been catching me since day one.
Genre: Romance