Deal with the Mountain Man
(2025)(A book in the Willowbrook Ridge Fire Rescue series)
A novel by Julia Stone
Olivia:
I built a life in the city—selling high-rise condos, and wearing designer heels, all while making deals closed over cocktails. None of that matters when Dad gets sick. Suddenly, I’m back in Willowbrook Ridge, drowning in responsibility, trading power suits for exhaustion and small-town stares.
Then there’s Wyatt Price.
My high school best friend. The boy I once promised to marry if we were both single at thirty. Well, I’m twenty-nine, and he’s no boy anymore.
He’s a firefighter now—bigger, broader, rougher in all the ways that make my breath hitch. When I start to crack under the pressure, it’s his hands catching me, his voice steadying me, being the support I need.
I tell myself he’s just helping. Just being the Wyatt I used to know.
But when he looks at me like he wants to devour me whole?
It makes me wonder if that promise we made is still on the table.
Wyatt:
I’ve battled flames that burn less than the way I want her.
Olivia Harper was my best friend, my almost, my never-had-the-guts-to-take. After all those years, now she’s back—stressed, exhausted, and needing someone to take care of her.
That’s where I come in.
She needs help with her father? Fine. An escape from the weight on her shoulders? I’ll be that, too. But the way she looks at me now—like she wants me as much as I want her—it’s only a matter of time before she stops running and lets herself accept the flame that crackles between us.
She still thinks she’s leaving once she’s no longer needed.
But I know better.
She’s not just my past—she’s my future. And this time, I’m not letting her slip away.
Genre: Romance
I built a life in the city—selling high-rise condos, and wearing designer heels, all while making deals closed over cocktails. None of that matters when Dad gets sick. Suddenly, I’m back in Willowbrook Ridge, drowning in responsibility, trading power suits for exhaustion and small-town stares.
Then there’s Wyatt Price.
My high school best friend. The boy I once promised to marry if we were both single at thirty. Well, I’m twenty-nine, and he’s no boy anymore.
He’s a firefighter now—bigger, broader, rougher in all the ways that make my breath hitch. When I start to crack under the pressure, it’s his hands catching me, his voice steadying me, being the support I need.
I tell myself he’s just helping. Just being the Wyatt I used to know.
But when he looks at me like he wants to devour me whole?
It makes me wonder if that promise we made is still on the table.
Wyatt:
I’ve battled flames that burn less than the way I want her.
Olivia Harper was my best friend, my almost, my never-had-the-guts-to-take. After all those years, now she’s back—stressed, exhausted, and needing someone to take care of her.
That’s where I come in.
She needs help with her father? Fine. An escape from the weight on her shoulders? I’ll be that, too. But the way she looks at me now—like she wants me as much as I want her—it’s only a matter of time before she stops running and lets herself accept the flame that crackles between us.
She still thinks she’s leaving once she’s no longer needed.
But I know better.
She’s not just my past—she’s my future. And this time, I’m not letting her slip away.
Genre: Romance
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