Kept By The Mountain Man
(2025)(The second book in the Heartland Heroes series)
A novel by Maya McKenna
He's supposed to be dead. Instead, he's keeping me captive in paradise.
Wildlife biologist Gemma Pierce discovers billionaire tech CEO Thorne Ashford bleeding in the wilderness—except the world thinks he died eighteen months ago. When she saves his life, he makes her an offer she's too broke to refuse: stay the winter in his hidden bunker, and he'll pay her more than her failed research grant.
Thorne can't let her leave. Not when assassins are still hunting him. Not when she's the first real thing in his world of lies. Not when her curves and awkward brilliance have become his obsession.
Gemma knows she's being kept. But when captivity feels like being treasured, when his possessive gaze makes her feel beautiful for the first time, when "prisoner" starts to feel like "queen"—how can she ever want to leave?
Some cages are made of gold, protection, and a man who'll give you everything.
Tropes: Billionaire • Forced Proximity • Age Gap • Touch-Starved Hero • Curvy Heroine • Hidden Identity • Instalove
Genre: Romance
Wildlife biologist Gemma Pierce discovers billionaire tech CEO Thorne Ashford bleeding in the wilderness—except the world thinks he died eighteen months ago. When she saves his life, he makes her an offer she's too broke to refuse: stay the winter in his hidden bunker, and he'll pay her more than her failed research grant.
Thorne can't let her leave. Not when assassins are still hunting him. Not when she's the first real thing in his world of lies. Not when her curves and awkward brilliance have become his obsession.
Gemma knows she's being kept. But when captivity feels like being treasured, when his possessive gaze makes her feel beautiful for the first time, when "prisoner" starts to feel like "queen"—how can she ever want to leave?
Some cages are made of gold, protection, and a man who'll give you everything.
Tropes: Billionaire • Forced Proximity • Age Gap • Touch-Starved Hero • Curvy Heroine • Hidden Identity • Instalove
Genre: Romance
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