She only needs a date. He's hired to keep her safe.
When federal communications director Elena Park travels to her best friend's remote mountain wedding, the last thing she wants is a headline. But someone's been leaking her schedule — and her team insists on protection.
The solution? A local contractor who can pose as her plus-one.
Graham Holt is former Secret Service. He reads rooms, neutralizes threats, and keeps his principals alive. What he doesn't do is pretend. But when Cade Hartley calls in a favor and asks him to attend a wedding as a high-profile woman's date, he agrees to one rule: stay close, stay professional, don't cross the line.
Elena doesn't expect the quiet, silver-haired man who meets her at the trailhead to be impossible to ignore. She doesn't expect to feel genuinely seen for the first time in months. And she definitely doesn't expect one mountain weekend — with its fake smiles, real danger, and one very convincing almost-kiss — to become something she can't walk away from.
As the threats escalate and the cover story stops feeling like a cover, Graham has to decide: is protecting her from the world enough — when the thing he can't protect her from is him?
Wedding Protection is a steamy, open-door standalone in the Bitterroot Ridge Bodyguards world. Featuring a silver fox protector who falls first and falls hard, a high-profile heroine who just wants one real weekend, and a small-town mountain wedding that changes everything. It is also part of the Wedding Season multi-author series.
Genre: Romance
When federal communications director Elena Park travels to her best friend's remote mountain wedding, the last thing she wants is a headline. But someone's been leaking her schedule — and her team insists on protection.
The solution? A local contractor who can pose as her plus-one.
Graham Holt is former Secret Service. He reads rooms, neutralizes threats, and keeps his principals alive. What he doesn't do is pretend. But when Cade Hartley calls in a favor and asks him to attend a wedding as a high-profile woman's date, he agrees to one rule: stay close, stay professional, don't cross the line.
Elena doesn't expect the quiet, silver-haired man who meets her at the trailhead to be impossible to ignore. She doesn't expect to feel genuinely seen for the first time in months. And she definitely doesn't expect one mountain weekend — with its fake smiles, real danger, and one very convincing almost-kiss — to become something she can't walk away from.
As the threats escalate and the cover story stops feeling like a cover, Graham has to decide: is protecting her from the world enough — when the thing he can't protect her from is him?
Wedding Protection is a steamy, open-door standalone in the Bitterroot Ridge Bodyguards world. Featuring a silver fox protector who falls first and falls hard, a high-profile heroine who just wants one real weekend, and a small-town mountain wedding that changes everything. It is also part of the Wedding Season multi-author series.
Genre: Romance
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