Big & Rough Mountain Man's Sanctuary
(2025)(A book in the Big & Rough Mountain Men series)
A Story by Sara Hazel
RYKER
The mountain’s always been enough for me. Quiet. Brutal. Honest.
I build fences, fix generators, keep people and predators where they belong. After I lost a family I should’ve saved, I stayed up here and promised myself one thing—no more unnecessary risks.
Then Lia Monroe rides into my storm with a half-wild wolf-dog in her truck and fire in her eyes.
She’s everything I don’t want to need: Curvy, bright, stubborn as hell… and determined to fight for an animal everyone else gave up on. One night in my cabin, one bed to share while the blizzard rages, and suddenly keeping my distance is not an option.
The first time I touch her, I know I’m done. This isn’t casual. It’s not temporary. She’s mine.
But the storm isn''t the only thing trying to rip her off my mountain. She’s got a life down below, a career built on pleasing people who only see her as a pretty face for the cameras.
They can have their polished boardrooms and their careful optics.
Up here, I’m going to prove one thing: Lia belongs in my bed, in my cabin, and at my side— And I’ll fight the weather, the wolves, and the whole damn world if I have to, to keep my woman and our sanctuary safe.
LIA
I came up this mountain to save one wolf-dog. I didn’t plan on falling for the most dangerous man I’ve ever met.
My job is simple on paper: transport Frost—half wolf, half dog, all trouble—to a remote research sanctuary before the storm hits. But the GPS dies, the blizzard closes in, and when I finally reach the access road, the only thing standing between me and a very bad ending is one massive, brooding mountain man.
Ryker Stone is supposed to be just the caretaker. Instead, he’s all sharp eyes and rough hands, quiet strength and fierce protectiveness. He gives me the warm bed while he takes the floor. He listens when I fight for Frost. And when the power fails and the storm traps us in his one-room cabin… the heat between us is hotter than the woodstove.
I’ve spent my whole life being ‘too much’ for people—too curvy, too emotional, too loud. Ryker looks at me like I’m exactly enough.
But when the roads reopen, the world wants me back: the cameras, the donors, the polished life I’ve been killing myself to hold together. Ryker wants something else: me by his side, building a sanctuary where in-between creatures like Frost—and women like me—finally belong.
If I stay, it’s not just for a fling in a snowstorm. It’s for a grumpy, big-hearted mountain man who treats my body like a treasure, my work like it matters, and my heart like it’s worth guarding.
The storm gave us one night. Now I have to decide if I’m brave enough to make it forever.
Genre: Romance
The mountain’s always been enough for me. Quiet. Brutal. Honest.
I build fences, fix generators, keep people and predators where they belong. After I lost a family I should’ve saved, I stayed up here and promised myself one thing—no more unnecessary risks.
Then Lia Monroe rides into my storm with a half-wild wolf-dog in her truck and fire in her eyes.
She’s everything I don’t want to need: Curvy, bright, stubborn as hell… and determined to fight for an animal everyone else gave up on. One night in my cabin, one bed to share while the blizzard rages, and suddenly keeping my distance is not an option.
The first time I touch her, I know I’m done. This isn’t casual. It’s not temporary. She’s mine.
But the storm isn''t the only thing trying to rip her off my mountain. She’s got a life down below, a career built on pleasing people who only see her as a pretty face for the cameras.
They can have their polished boardrooms and their careful optics.
Up here, I’m going to prove one thing: Lia belongs in my bed, in my cabin, and at my side— And I’ll fight the weather, the wolves, and the whole damn world if I have to, to keep my woman and our sanctuary safe.
LIA
I came up this mountain to save one wolf-dog. I didn’t plan on falling for the most dangerous man I’ve ever met.
My job is simple on paper: transport Frost—half wolf, half dog, all trouble—to a remote research sanctuary before the storm hits. But the GPS dies, the blizzard closes in, and when I finally reach the access road, the only thing standing between me and a very bad ending is one massive, brooding mountain man.
Ryker Stone is supposed to be just the caretaker. Instead, he’s all sharp eyes and rough hands, quiet strength and fierce protectiveness. He gives me the warm bed while he takes the floor. He listens when I fight for Frost. And when the power fails and the storm traps us in his one-room cabin… the heat between us is hotter than the woodstove.
I’ve spent my whole life being ‘too much’ for people—too curvy, too emotional, too loud. Ryker looks at me like I’m exactly enough.
But when the roads reopen, the world wants me back: the cameras, the donors, the polished life I’ve been killing myself to hold together. Ryker wants something else: me by his side, building a sanctuary where in-between creatures like Frost—and women like me—finally belong.
If I stay, it’s not just for a fling in a snowstorm. It’s for a grumpy, big-hearted mountain man who treats my body like a treasure, my work like it matters, and my heart like it’s worth guarding.
The storm gave us one night. Now I have to decide if I’m brave enough to make it forever.
Genre: Romance
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