The Mountain Man's Mail Order Secret
(2026)(A book in the Mountain Man Sanctuary Season Two series)
A novel by Demi Wilder
I love Bear Creek Valley the way some men love women—completely, irrationally, with my whole chest.
These cabins have been in my family for generations. I've poured everything into keeping them running. But the money's drying up, a developer is circling, and apparently my family has decided the real problem isn't the finances.
It's that I'm alone.
I don't know which one of them did it. Mabel swears it wasn't her. My cousins won't make eye contact. But somebody posted my profile on a matchmaking site—the old-fashioned kind, where mountain men looking for wives write letters to women looking for a different life.
I didn't write a single word of it. I didn't ask for this.
Then Carmen Reyes shows up.
She's an ER nurse from Houston who responded to that ad thinking she was applying for a live-in caretaker position at a mountain retreat. She's running on fumes—compassion fatigue, she calls it. I call it being emptied out by caring too much for too long. She barely eats. Sleeps at strange hours. Startles when I knock.
She came here to disappear into quiet work. Not to be some mountain man's mail-order bride.
She's furious. I'm mortified. And she should leave.
But she's got nowhere else to go. The cabin's already paid for. And I need help with this place more than my pride wants to admit.
So we make a deal. One month. She helps with the cabins, I give her the solitude she came for, and we pretend the ad never happened.
Except I keep leaving soup on her porch. She keeps fixing things I didn't ask her to fix. And every time she smiles—rare, slow, like sunrise after a long shift—I forget this wasn't my idea.
She's learning how to rest. I'm learning that some things are worth more than money.
And whoever wrote that ad? They might just be the smartest person in Bear Creek Valley.
Because every day she stays, selling this place becomes more impossible. And letting her go becomes unthinkable.
The Mountain Man's Mail Order Secret is a mail-order mix-up romance featuring a cabin owner who didn't place the ad, the burned-out nurse who didn't know she was answering one, and the meddling mountain town that somehow got it exactly right. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
These cabins have been in my family for generations. I've poured everything into keeping them running. But the money's drying up, a developer is circling, and apparently my family has decided the real problem isn't the finances.
It's that I'm alone.
I don't know which one of them did it. Mabel swears it wasn't her. My cousins won't make eye contact. But somebody posted my profile on a matchmaking site—the old-fashioned kind, where mountain men looking for wives write letters to women looking for a different life.
I didn't write a single word of it. I didn't ask for this.
Then Carmen Reyes shows up.
She's an ER nurse from Houston who responded to that ad thinking she was applying for a live-in caretaker position at a mountain retreat. She's running on fumes—compassion fatigue, she calls it. I call it being emptied out by caring too much for too long. She barely eats. Sleeps at strange hours. Startles when I knock.
She came here to disappear into quiet work. Not to be some mountain man's mail-order bride.
She's furious. I'm mortified. And she should leave.
But she's got nowhere else to go. The cabin's already paid for. And I need help with this place more than my pride wants to admit.
So we make a deal. One month. She helps with the cabins, I give her the solitude she came for, and we pretend the ad never happened.
Except I keep leaving soup on her porch. She keeps fixing things I didn't ask her to fix. And every time she smiles—rare, slow, like sunrise after a long shift—I forget this wasn't my idea.
She's learning how to rest. I'm learning that some things are worth more than money.
And whoever wrote that ad? They might just be the smartest person in Bear Creek Valley.
Because every day she stays, selling this place becomes more impossible. And letting her go becomes unthinkable.
The Mountain Man's Mail Order Secret is a mail-order mix-up romance featuring a cabin owner who didn't place the ad, the burned-out nurse who didn't know she was answering one, and the meddling mountain town that somehow got it exactly right. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance