More than Friends with the Mountain Man
(2026)(The third book in the Second Chances in Silver Ridge series)
A novel by Celia Skye
PORTER
Every August, I come back to Silver Ridge for the Timber Festival. Every August, I walk into Walker's hardware store and fall into the easiest friendship of my life. Every August, I leave. This year I'm single for the first time in four years — and the thing I've been pretending is friendship is suddenly very much more than that.
WALKER
Fifteen years. That's how long I've been in love with Porter Lane. I've watched her build a life that doesn't include me except for one week a year and the phone calls that get me through the other fifty-one. If I kiss her, I risk everything. If I don't, I spend another year pretending I'm not dying every time she leaves.
One festival. One friendship. Fifteen years of almost about to become more.
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More than Friends with the Mountain Man is a short, steamy friends-to-lovers romance featuring fifteen years of almost, a single week that finally breaks the silence, and a guaranteed happy-ever-after.
Every August, I come back to Silver Ridge for the Timber Festival. Every August, I walk into Walker's hardware store and fall into the easiest friendship of my life. Every August, I leave. This year I'm single for the first time in four years — and the thing I've been pretending is friendship is suddenly very much more than that.
WALKER
Fifteen years. That's how long I've been in love with Porter Lane. I've watched her build a life that doesn't include me except for one week a year and the phone calls that get me through the other fifty-one. If I kiss her, I risk everything. If I don't, I spend another year pretending I'm not dying every time she leaves.
One festival. One friendship. Fifteen years of almost about to become more.
-
More than Friends with the Mountain Man is a short, steamy friends-to-lovers romance featuring fifteen years of almost, a single week that finally breaks the silence, and a guaranteed happy-ever-after.