Grizzly Ridge: Veterans of Valor

I didn't come back to Grizzly Ridge to protect anyone.I came back to disappear.Then Erica Clarke crashed into my life-smart-mouthed, stubborn, and convinced she doesn't need a man watching her back.She's wrong.I see the danger circling her long before she does.I feel it in my bones.And once I decide she's mine, there's no walking away.She fights me at every turn.Calls me controlling.Says she's not afraid of the shadows following her.But I am.Because touching her would be the last mistake anyone ever makes.She thinks I'm her enemy.I'll prove I'm her shield. Shielded by the Mountain Man is a steamy bodyguard romance featuring a wounded ex-SEAL, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, slow-burn heat, and an alpha protector who loves like it's a mission.

I don't do soft.I do threats. Risk. Control.So when she walks into Valor Security asking for protection, I already know she's trouble.Clara Hayes smiles too easily. Trusts too fast. And she has no idea how close the danger really is.I tell myself it's just a job.I'm lying.I move her into my cabin. Lock down the perimeter. Take every shift myself.Because if something happens to her, it's on me.She thinks I'm protecting her.What she doesn't know is I'm guarding my own heart, too.Guarded by the Mountain Man is a steamy small-town romance featuring a grumpy ex-Green Beret, forced proximity, rising danger, and a protector who doesn't back down.

I've taken more lives than I can count.Every one of them I remember. Every one of them I carry.I came to Grizzly Ridge for the silence and the sight lines - not for redemption, not for community, and definitely not for a woman who teaches high school English and looks at me like she's trying to read the story underneath my skin.Tina Ackley sees things in people she has no business seeing.She's soft and warm and writes poetry under a pen name she guards like a classified file. She's terrified of me, and she shows up to every session I'm asked to give like she's daring herself to be less afraid.It works. The fear goes first. Then the walls. And somewhere between her classroom and her front porch and the way she says my name like it isn't a weapon-I stop being a ghost.But my past doesn't stay buried. When a threat reaches into Grizzly Ridge, I have a choice: pick up the rifle, or prove I'm the man she believes I am.She taught me that words can heal. I'm about to find out if that's true.Redeemed by the Mountain Man is a steamy standalone mountain romance featuring a legendary Marine Scout Sniper searching for a reason to be more than his body count, a small-town English teacher who writes hidden poetry about longing, and the slow, devastating discovery that two broken people can build something whole. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.