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Exposed by the Mountain Man Hotshot
(2026)(The fourth book in the Copper Peak Blaze series)
A Story by Lilah Hart
He's spent six years flying straight at the fire, half hoping it takes him too. Then he looked through her lens and found a reason to come home.
I pulled my brother off a burning ridge six years ago. I came down. He didn't.
I've worn his stopped watch ever since, and every day after felt borrowed—his, not mine—so I spent them cheap. First one into the smoke, last one out, never much caring whether I made it back.
Then the resort strapped a photographer into my helicopter.
Merritt hides behind her camera the way I hide behind not caring. She shoots the whole valley gold and stays out of every frame, because a fire took her family the one night she wasn't home—and she's kept glass between herself and the world ever since.
She's twenty-three. Guarded. Certain she's safer out of the picture.
And I've got one color-week weekend before she means to disappear behind that lens for good.
So I'll give her the one thing no one else ever has.
I'll look straight past the camera and want the woman holding it. I'll be the thing she can't photograph and can't put down. I'll wind a dead man's watch forward, start it running true, and stand in the middle of this town and ask—out loud, where I can't take it back—to be in the frame with her.
Whatever it takes.
Because Merritt is about to find out exactly how far a man with nothing left to lose will go for the first thing he's wanted to live for in six years.
Exposed by the Mountain Man Hotshot is a steamy small-town wildland firefighter romance featuring a grieving helitack pilot, a camera-shy photographer, instalove on a ticking clock, an age gap, forced proximity, a virgin heroine, a he-fell-first hero, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
I pulled my brother off a burning ridge six years ago. I came down. He didn't.
I've worn his stopped watch ever since, and every day after felt borrowed—his, not mine—so I spent them cheap. First one into the smoke, last one out, never much caring whether I made it back.
Then the resort strapped a photographer into my helicopter.
Merritt hides behind her camera the way I hide behind not caring. She shoots the whole valley gold and stays out of every frame, because a fire took her family the one night she wasn't home—and she's kept glass between herself and the world ever since.
She's twenty-three. Guarded. Certain she's safer out of the picture.
And I've got one color-week weekend before she means to disappear behind that lens for good.
So I'll give her the one thing no one else ever has.
I'll look straight past the camera and want the woman holding it. I'll be the thing she can't photograph and can't put down. I'll wind a dead man's watch forward, start it running true, and stand in the middle of this town and ask—out loud, where I can't take it back—to be in the frame with her.
Whatever it takes.
Because Merritt is about to find out exactly how far a man with nothing left to lose will go for the first thing he's wanted to live for in six years.
Exposed by the Mountain Man Hotshot is a steamy small-town wildland firefighter romance featuring a grieving helitack pilot, a camera-shy photographer, instalove on a ticking clock, an age gap, forced proximity, a virgin heroine, a he-fell-first hero, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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