He had a system for everything. She was the exception he never planned for.
Tyler Sullivan is the quiet one — the electrician who keeps the Sullivan Brothers’ projects running and his own life wired to the minute. Twelve years ago he built a rule: three dates, no more. Nobody stays long enough to leave. It worked, right up until a scheduling conflict put an archive specialist in the middle of his job site.
Addison Ivy has almost 500k followers and a rule of her own: three years, nobody gets close. The internet gets her angles; nobody gets her. She’s in Pine Ridge for six weeks to preserve a hundred-year-old collection, and then she’s gone — back to Denver, back to the career, back to the version of herself that photographs well and feels nothing.
Then the electrician notices how she takes her coffee. The way she goes still over old paper. He fixes what she needs before she asks and never once mentions it. And for the first time in three years, being noticed doesn’t feel like a camera. It feels like coming home.
But Denver is still calling, the deal of her career has a deadline, and Tyler Sullivan has never once asked a woman to stay — because he’s never believed he was a man a woman stays for.
He’s about to find out he’s wrong. On the side of a mountain highway, with both of them driving toward each other.
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Tyler Sullivan is the quiet one — the electrician who keeps the Sullivan Brothers’ projects running and his own life wired to the minute. Twelve years ago he built a rule: three dates, no more. Nobody stays long enough to leave. It worked, right up until a scheduling conflict put an archive specialist in the middle of his job site.
Addison Ivy has almost 500k followers and a rule of her own: three years, nobody gets close. The internet gets her angles; nobody gets her. She’s in Pine Ridge for six weeks to preserve a hundred-year-old collection, and then she’s gone — back to Denver, back to the career, back to the version of herself that photographs well and feels nothing.
Then the electrician notices how she takes her coffee. The way she goes still over old paper. He fixes what she needs before she asks and never once mentions it. And for the first time in three years, being noticed doesn’t feel like a camera. It feels like coming home.
But Denver is still calling, the deal of her career has a deadline, and Tyler Sullivan has never once asked a woman to stay — because he’s never believed he was a man a woman stays for.
He’s about to find out he’s wrong. On the side of a mountain highway, with both of them driving toward each other.
Perfect for readers who love:
- A quiet, methodical hero who notices everything and says almost nothing
An influencer heroine with a secret academic soul — and a spine
A three-week ticking clock and a man who decided on day one
A dog who picks her first
‘Yes ma’am’ delivered like a vow
NO cheating. NO cliffhangers. Guaranteed HEA. High heat with all the feelings.
Book 2 in the Sullivan Brothers of Pine Ridge series — five brothers, one mountain town, and the development company trying to buy it out from under them. Each book is a complete standalone with its own happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
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