Guarded by the Grieving Mountain Man
(2026)(A book in the Kincaid Mountain Men series)
A Story by Demi Wilder
Eight years.
That's how long it's been since I held my wife's hand while she took her last breath. Eight years of going through the motions. Guiding hunts because it keeps me in the woods. Avoiding town because pity in people's eyes makes me want to break things.
I wasn't looking for anyone. I'd made peace with being alone.
Then Vera showed up.
She picked Bear Creek Valley at random—stabbed a map, she said, trying to escape the wreckage of a marriage she thought was real. Her husband's dead, but his betrayal isn't, and she's carrying it like stones in her pockets.
I know about carrying weight.
She doesn't want to be rescued. Good—I'm not a hero.
But I can't stop watching her. This silver-haired woman who's too elegant for a mountain town, too wounded to smile, too stubborn to break.
I thought I'd buried my heart with my wife.
Turns out it was just waiting. For her.
Guarded by the Grieving Mountain Man is a second-chance-at-love romance featuring a widower who forgot how to feel, the elegant woman rebuilding herself from betrayal, and a mountain that proves some hearts are worth thawing. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
That's how long it's been since I held my wife's hand while she took her last breath. Eight years of going through the motions. Guiding hunts because it keeps me in the woods. Avoiding town because pity in people's eyes makes me want to break things.
I wasn't looking for anyone. I'd made peace with being alone.
Then Vera showed up.
She picked Bear Creek Valley at random—stabbed a map, she said, trying to escape the wreckage of a marriage she thought was real. Her husband's dead, but his betrayal isn't, and she's carrying it like stones in her pockets.
I know about carrying weight.
She doesn't want to be rescued. Good—I'm not a hero.
But I can't stop watching her. This silver-haired woman who's too elegant for a mountain town, too wounded to smile, too stubborn to break.
I thought I'd buried my heart with my wife.
Turns out it was just waiting. For her.
Guarded by the Grieving Mountain Man is a second-chance-at-love romance featuring a widower who forgot how to feel, the elegant woman rebuilding herself from betrayal, and a mountain that proves some hearts are worth thawing. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
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