Unplugged With the Mountain Man
(2027)(A book in the Mountain Music Mayhem Romance series)
A novel by Avery Shaw
Ten years ago, I walked away from sold-out arenas and a recording career that was killing me from the inside out. Now I live off-grid in the Colorado mountains outside Ridge's End, and the only audience I play for is the tree line off my back porch.
Then Magnolia James crashes into my life.
Country music's sweetheart just became country music's biggest scandal, and she needs somewhere to disappear before the Rock the Ridge Festival, where she's supposed to prove to the world she's not finished. Her label needs someone local who knows these mountains and won't sell her out to the press.
I'm the worst choice and the only option.
I know what the spotlight does to a person. I know how the industry chews you up and calls it fame. I should keep my distance, do the job, and let her go back to a world I burned to the ground on purpose.
But watching her sing alone in my kitchen when she thinks I can't hear, seeing the real woman underneath the headlines, feeling her curl into me during a thunderstorm like I'm the safest place she's ever been? Something in me that's been silent for a decade starts writing songs again.
She thinks I gave up. I think she's killing herself for an industry that doesn't deserve her.
We're both wrong. And when the threats follow her into my mountains, the man I used to be and the man I've become agree on one thing.
Nobody touches her. Nobody breaks her. And nobody takes her from me.
She came here to save her career. She's going to save my soul instead.
Unplugged with the Mountain Man is a steamy festival romance featuring a reclusive former rock star living off-grid, the curvy country singer hiding from scandal in his cabin, forced proximity that strikes a chord neither expected, and a protective hero who'll burn every bridge to keep her safe. Rock the Ridge Festival setting, touch her and die energy, and a guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
Then Magnolia James crashes into my life.
Country music's sweetheart just became country music's biggest scandal, and she needs somewhere to disappear before the Rock the Ridge Festival, where she's supposed to prove to the world she's not finished. Her label needs someone local who knows these mountains and won't sell her out to the press.
I'm the worst choice and the only option.
I know what the spotlight does to a person. I know how the industry chews you up and calls it fame. I should keep my distance, do the job, and let her go back to a world I burned to the ground on purpose.
But watching her sing alone in my kitchen when she thinks I can't hear, seeing the real woman underneath the headlines, feeling her curl into me during a thunderstorm like I'm the safest place she's ever been? Something in me that's been silent for a decade starts writing songs again.
She thinks I gave up. I think she's killing herself for an industry that doesn't deserve her.
We're both wrong. And when the threats follow her into my mountains, the man I used to be and the man I've become agree on one thing.
Nobody touches her. Nobody breaks her. And nobody takes her from me.
She came here to save her career. She's going to save my soul instead.
Unplugged with the Mountain Man is a steamy festival romance featuring a reclusive former rock star living off-grid, the curvy country singer hiding from scandal in his cabin, forced proximity that strikes a chord neither expected, and a protective hero who'll burn every bridge to keep her safe. Rock the Ridge Festival setting, touch her and die energy, and a guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance