Broken Mountain Healer
(2026)(The third book in the Silver Foxes of Raptor Creek series)
A Story by Lainey Rivers
She builds spaces that let everyone in. He's spent years keeping everyone out.
Ford McKenna was one of the best ER doctors in the state — until a mudslide destroyed his hometown and took his parents with it. Now he lives alone in the mountains, working with wood instead of medicine, reading books he never finishes, and pretending the quiet is enough.
Ivy Prescott is an accessibility contractor with steel-toed boots and a talent for seeing what a building needs before anyone else does. She's in Raptor Creek to retrofit the town's new community space, not to fix a broken man.
But Ford can't stop watching her work. And Ivy can't stop noticing the gentle, guarded man who speaks her language — load mechanics and mortar joints and the kind of care that means doing things right the first time.
He doesn't date. She doesn't stay. The job has an end date and so does whatever this is.
Except some things, once you take the walls down, are too beautiful to cover back up.
Broken Mountain Healer is a steamy small-town romance with a brooding silver fox hero, a curvy contractor heroine, and enough sparks to start a brushfire — standalone with a guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance
Ford McKenna was one of the best ER doctors in the state — until a mudslide destroyed his hometown and took his parents with it. Now he lives alone in the mountains, working with wood instead of medicine, reading books he never finishes, and pretending the quiet is enough.
Ivy Prescott is an accessibility contractor with steel-toed boots and a talent for seeing what a building needs before anyone else does. She's in Raptor Creek to retrofit the town's new community space, not to fix a broken man.
But Ford can't stop watching her work. And Ivy can't stop noticing the gentle, guarded man who speaks her language — load mechanics and mortar joints and the kind of care that means doing things right the first time.
He doesn't date. She doesn't stay. The job has an end date and so does whatever this is.
Except some things, once you take the walls down, are too beautiful to cover back up.
Broken Mountain Healer is a steamy small-town romance with a brooding silver fox hero, a curvy contractor heroine, and enough sparks to start a brushfire — standalone with a guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance
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