Surprised by the Loner Mountain Man
(2026)(The sixth book in the Summer Heat in Silver Ridge series)
A novel by Celia Skye
LARA
I'm not running from anything. I've done the work. My marriage ended two years ago, and I healed. Quietly. Completely.
I'm in Silver Ridge for work. The mountains feel like home. I didn't come here looking for anything.
What I didn't expect was Shaw Garrison.
He's not broken. Not brooding. Not waiting to be saved. He's just whole on his own, living a life he chose on purpose, and for reasons I cannot explain, that is the most devastating thing I've encountered in years.
He doesn't need me. I'm not offering.
But he keeps finding reasons to be wherever I am.
And I keep letting him.
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Surprised by the Loner Mountain Man is a short, steamy age-gap instalove romance featuring two people who have no business falling this hard, accidental courtship, and a guaranteed happy-ever-after.
I'm not running from anything. I've done the work. My marriage ended two years ago, and I healed. Quietly. Completely.
I'm in Silver Ridge for work. The mountains feel like home. I didn't come here looking for anything.
What I didn't expect was Shaw Garrison.
He's not broken. Not brooding. Not waiting to be saved. He's just whole on his own, living a life he chose on purpose, and for reasons I cannot explain, that is the most devastating thing I've encountered in years.
He doesn't need me. I'm not offering.
But he keeps finding reasons to be wherever I am.
And I keep letting him.
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Surprised by the Loner Mountain Man is a short, steamy age-gap instalove romance featuring two people who have no business falling this hard, accidental courtship, and a guaranteed happy-ever-after.