Off-Limits to the Mountain Man
(2026)(A book in the Valor In The Mountains Romance series)
A Story by Peyton Lawson
He's a former special forces medic hiding from his past. She's the sheriff's daughter who refuses to be told no. What happens when thy are rapped in a cabin with nowhere to hide from the fire between them.
LOGAN
I came to Bitterroot Ridge to disappear. No attachments. No complications. No second chances I don't deserve.
Then Avery Grayson shows up at my door demanding I train her for her EMT certification. She's stubborn, brilliant, and curves that make my jaw clench every time she moves. She's also twenty-two years old and the sheriff's daughter—two very good reasons I should send her straight back down that mountain.
But I don't.
And when a storm traps us in my cabin for four days, I realize I'm not nearly the good man her father thinks I am. Not when she looks at me like I'm something worth saving. Not when she challenges every wall I've built and makes me want things I swore I'd never want again.
She's fourteen years younger than me. Off-limits in every way that matters.
But I'm carving her name into my soul anyway.
AVERY
Everyone thinks I need protecting. My father. The town. Even Logan Maddox—the grumpy medic who lives in the woods and barely speaks to anyone.
They're all wrong.
I didn't fight my way through EMT training to be treated like I'm fragile. And when a March storm strands us in his remote cabin, I'm done playing it safe. Done pretending I don't see the hunger in his eyes when he thinks I'm not looking.
He says the age gap matters. That he's too broken, too damaged from whatever happened in his past.
He's wrong.
I know what I want. And what I want is Logan Maddox—all his rough edges, protective growls, and the careful way his scarred hands tend to my wounds like I'm something precious.
He says I'm off-limits.
I'm about to show him exactly what happens when you tell a sheriff's daughter no.
Off-Limits to the Mountain Man is a scorching age-gap forced proximity romance featuring a brooding former military medic, a competent curvy heroine who knows her own mind, and enough storm-trapped heat to melt a blizzard. This standalone novella in the Bitterroot Ridge universe delivers insta-love, wilderness survival, steam, and a guaranteed HEA with no cliffhanger.
Each book in the Valor In The Mountains series is a standalone romance with high heat, real heart, and the kind of spice that will warm you all year long. COMING FEBRUARY 2026!
Genre: Romance
LOGAN
I came to Bitterroot Ridge to disappear. No attachments. No complications. No second chances I don't deserve.
Then Avery Grayson shows up at my door demanding I train her for her EMT certification. She's stubborn, brilliant, and curves that make my jaw clench every time she moves. She's also twenty-two years old and the sheriff's daughter—two very good reasons I should send her straight back down that mountain.
But I don't.
And when a storm traps us in my cabin for four days, I realize I'm not nearly the good man her father thinks I am. Not when she looks at me like I'm something worth saving. Not when she challenges every wall I've built and makes me want things I swore I'd never want again.
She's fourteen years younger than me. Off-limits in every way that matters.
But I'm carving her name into my soul anyway.
AVERY
Everyone thinks I need protecting. My father. The town. Even Logan Maddox—the grumpy medic who lives in the woods and barely speaks to anyone.
They're all wrong.
I didn't fight my way through EMT training to be treated like I'm fragile. And when a March storm strands us in his remote cabin, I'm done playing it safe. Done pretending I don't see the hunger in his eyes when he thinks I'm not looking.
He says the age gap matters. That he's too broken, too damaged from whatever happened in his past.
He's wrong.
I know what I want. And what I want is Logan Maddox—all his rough edges, protective growls, and the careful way his scarred hands tend to my wounds like I'm something precious.
He says I'm off-limits.
I'm about to show him exactly what happens when you tell a sheriff's daughter no.
Off-Limits to the Mountain Man is a scorching age-gap forced proximity romance featuring a brooding former military medic, a competent curvy heroine who knows her own mind, and enough storm-trapped heat to melt a blizzard. This standalone novella in the Bitterroot Ridge universe delivers insta-love, wilderness survival, steam, and a guaranteed HEA with no cliffhanger.
Each book in the Valor In The Mountains series is a standalone romance with high heat, real heart, and the kind of spice that will warm you all year long. COMING FEBRUARY 2026!
Genre: Romance