Bound By The Mountain Man

I've pulled forty-seven people from the ocean.

I know their names. I know their faces. I know the ones I chose to save.

I know the ones I left.

I came to the mountains to outrun the water. Rescue dogs are my penance — training them, deploying them, sending them into the places I can't make myself go anymore. It works. Most days it works.

Then Lydia Brooke arrives on my land with a Belgian Malinois named Scout and a methodology that makes mine look like punishment.

She's gentle where I'm rigid. Intuitive where I'm controlled. She reads dogs like I used to read water — like the answer is always there if you look the right way.

She also reads me. And I am absolutely not ready for that.

Her own past isn't clean. Her family is under investigation and she's been asked to testify against them. The woman who looks like she's made of sunlight and patience is holding herself together with both hands.

But when a rescue goes wrong and the only way to save someone involves water — I'm going to have to decide if I trust her enough to let her talk me through the thing I've been running from.

Bound by the Mountain Man is a steamy standalone mountain romance and series finale featuring a Coast Guard rescue swimmer haunted by an impossible choice, a canine behaviorist who heals broken creatures including the man who thinks he's beyond it, and a Grizzly Ridge community that proves family is built, not born. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.