I didn't come to Eden Ridge to find anyone.
I came to help my brother with his guest ranch and return home. Unlike my siblings, who scattered years ago, I actually show up. That's the plan—help out, keep my head down, leave.

Then I find her.

Trina Harford, all sunshine and soft curves, stranded on a trail with a busted ankle. She's too young, too sweet, too bright for a man like me. I help her because I'm not heartless.
That should be the end of it.

Except her best friend Harper has decided we're some kind of cosmic love story. Now I can't turn around without being shoved into the same room as the one woman who makes my chest tight and my walls weak. So we decide to give them what they want, but only pretend.

Trina blushes every time I look at her. I glare at everyone who notices. And the more we pretend, the harder it gets to remember why I built these walls in the first place.

Reluctant Mountain Man is a small-town, age-gap, mountain-man, grumpy/sunshine romance, with a meddling best-friend matchmaker who refuses to let these two stubborn people ignore fate. Guaranteed HEA.