How to Annoy a Mountain Man
(2026)(A book in the Woodbridge Falls Security Romance series)
A novel by Alana Gray
I restore gravestones, not patience.
Jonah Wilder
Celebrity protection, high stakes, high danger...
Nope.
I’m guarding a damn cemetery.
Apparently grave robbing is making a comeback and the wealthy family funding this place isn't taking chances, especially with Halloween around the corner.
Fine by me. Easy money.
Then I start seeing her.
Every night. Same section of the cemetery. Same strange hours. Always dressed like she's attending a Victorian funeral and enjoying herself way too much.
At first, I think she's the problem.
People don't wander historic graveyards after dark unless they're up to something.
But my suspicion starts to… drift.
Because I can’t stop noticing her.
Her grace compared to my bulky muscles.
Her patient, peaceful energy so unlike my world of danger.
The way she smiles at me like she knows exactly what I'm thinking.
Which she absolutely does not.
Probably.
The last thing I need is to get distracted by a woman who's obsessed with all things death, history, folklore and ghost stories.
Unfortunately, she's uncovered a centuries-old mystery buried beneath one of the graves on the property.
And now I can't seem to leave that alone either.
Briar Hart
There's a man watching me.
He stands perfectly still, arms crossed over a chest the size of a mausoleum door, glaring at everyone like he's personally responsible for keeping the dead in line.
Hard jaw. Hard stare. Harder rules.
Which is fine. I’m used to being studied.
Most people don't understand my work.
There's nothing morbid about restoring graves.
It's preservation. History. A refusal to let names disappear just because time passes.
Which is why I can't ignore what I've found.
A grave without a name dating back to the seventeenth century.
My job is restoration, maybe if I dig a little – no pun intended – I can give her back her name.
The problem?
My investigation requires even more time in the cemetery, and with the grumpy mountain-man who thinks I’m the source of every problem.
But he can’t leave the mystery alone either.
And something about the way he watches me makes me think this cemetery isn’t the only thing being guarded too closely.
Can a cemetery be the unlikely place Briar and Jonah find love? Find out in this short, Halloween, mountain man love story, featuring a gruff mountain man and his morbid match. Dual POV, first person, past tense.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Jonah Wilder
Celebrity protection, high stakes, high danger...
Nope.
I’m guarding a damn cemetery.
Apparently grave robbing is making a comeback and the wealthy family funding this place isn't taking chances, especially with Halloween around the corner.
Fine by me. Easy money.
Then I start seeing her.
Every night. Same section of the cemetery. Same strange hours. Always dressed like she's attending a Victorian funeral and enjoying herself way too much.
At first, I think she's the problem.
People don't wander historic graveyards after dark unless they're up to something.
But my suspicion starts to… drift.
Because I can’t stop noticing her.
Her grace compared to my bulky muscles.
Her patient, peaceful energy so unlike my world of danger.
The way she smiles at me like she knows exactly what I'm thinking.
Which she absolutely does not.
Probably.
The last thing I need is to get distracted by a woman who's obsessed with all things death, history, folklore and ghost stories.
Unfortunately, she's uncovered a centuries-old mystery buried beneath one of the graves on the property.
And now I can't seem to leave that alone either.
Briar Hart
There's a man watching me.
He stands perfectly still, arms crossed over a chest the size of a mausoleum door, glaring at everyone like he's personally responsible for keeping the dead in line.
Hard jaw. Hard stare. Harder rules.
Which is fine. I’m used to being studied.
Most people don't understand my work.
There's nothing morbid about restoring graves.
It's preservation. History. A refusal to let names disappear just because time passes.
Which is why I can't ignore what I've found.
A grave without a name dating back to the seventeenth century.
My job is restoration, maybe if I dig a little – no pun intended – I can give her back her name.
The problem?
My investigation requires even more time in the cemetery, and with the grumpy mountain-man who thinks I’m the source of every problem.
But he can’t leave the mystery alone either.
And something about the way he watches me makes me think this cemetery isn’t the only thing being guarded too closely.
Can a cemetery be the unlikely place Briar and Jonah find love? Find out in this short, Halloween, mountain man love story, featuring a gruff mountain man and his morbid match. Dual POV, first person, past tense.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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