Sheltered By The Mountain Man (Spring in the Mountains #14)

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He rescued her from the storm. He never meant to keep her.

When elementary school teacher Poppy Whitaker gets lost in the Blue Ridge Mountains during a sudden spring storm, she expects cold, fear, and one very long night alone.

Instead, she finds Stone Mercer.

Former wildland firefighter. Mountain recluse. A man carved from silence, solitude, and scars he never talks about. He lives off the grid, keeps his distance, and trusts no one to stay.

Until her.

From the moment Stone carries Poppy out of the rain and into his remote cabin, something shifts. She is warmth in his cold world, light in the quiet he built to survive, and the one person who makes him want more than isolation.

Poppy didn’t come to the mountain looking for a man. Especially not one so guarded, so steady, so dangerously easy to trust. But as the storm traps them together, lines blur, walls fall, and one night changes everything.

Because sheltering her was never the real risk.

Losing her is.