Wrapped Up with the Mountain Man
(2026)(A book in the Grumpy Christmas Mountain Man Season 2 series)
A novel by Brielle Ross
A grumpy small-town store owner. The down-on-her-luck stranger he can't turn away. One blizzard and nowhere left to hide this Christmas.
I run the general store in Lush Hollow, and I run it alone. Always have.
The lights. The last-minute wrapping paper. The deliveries up every icy road on the mountain. I keep this whole town stocked through December and I don't ask for a thing back. I like it that way. Quiet. Predictable. Nobody close enough to need me past a receipt.
Then she walks in and asks for work.
I don't need the help. Never have. But she's new in town, out of money and out of options, and she's been sleeping in her car because it's that or nothing. I know that look. I've worn it myself. So I do the one thing I never do.
I say yes. To the job—and then I hand her the keys to my own apartment over the shop and tell myself I'll be fine out at the cabin. Temporary. Just till she's on her feet.
Now she's living in my rooms above the store and standing behind my counter every single day, all warmth and questions and a smile that doesn't quit, rearranging my quiet little life one shelf at a time. And when the blizzard rolls down the ridge and buries the roads, I can't get out to my cabin and I won't leave the store with half of Lush Hollow depending on it—so it's the two of us, stuck here together. Days of it. Just her, me, the woodstove, and every wall I've spent years building.
I've spent my whole life keeping everyone at arm's length.
She's about to get a whole lot closer than that.
A grumpy/sunshine, snowed-in, small-town Christmas romance with a mountain man who's gruffer than he is jolly—and the woman who finally unwraps him. Steamy, low-angst, and guaranteed HEA.
Coming this Christmas. Preorder now.
This Christmas, these mountain men will discover that sometimes the best gifts come wrapped in unexpected love... and a whole lot of steam. Welcome to Grumpy Mountain Man Christmas Season 2. Coming to your Kindle Nov 2026!
Genre: Romance
I run the general store in Lush Hollow, and I run it alone. Always have.
The lights. The last-minute wrapping paper. The deliveries up every icy road on the mountain. I keep this whole town stocked through December and I don't ask for a thing back. I like it that way. Quiet. Predictable. Nobody close enough to need me past a receipt.
Then she walks in and asks for work.
I don't need the help. Never have. But she's new in town, out of money and out of options, and she's been sleeping in her car because it's that or nothing. I know that look. I've worn it myself. So I do the one thing I never do.
I say yes. To the job—and then I hand her the keys to my own apartment over the shop and tell myself I'll be fine out at the cabin. Temporary. Just till she's on her feet.
Now she's living in my rooms above the store and standing behind my counter every single day, all warmth and questions and a smile that doesn't quit, rearranging my quiet little life one shelf at a time. And when the blizzard rolls down the ridge and buries the roads, I can't get out to my cabin and I won't leave the store with half of Lush Hollow depending on it—so it's the two of us, stuck here together. Days of it. Just her, me, the woodstove, and every wall I've spent years building.
I've spent my whole life keeping everyone at arm's length.
She's about to get a whole lot closer than that.
A grumpy/sunshine, snowed-in, small-town Christmas romance with a mountain man who's gruffer than he is jolly—and the woman who finally unwraps him. Steamy, low-angst, and guaranteed HEA.
Coming this Christmas. Preorder now.
This Christmas, these mountain men will discover that sometimes the best gifts come wrapped in unexpected love... and a whole lot of steam. Welcome to Grumpy Mountain Man Christmas Season 2. Coming to your Kindle Nov 2026!
Genre: Romance