ROCK
Six years ago, Harper Tench vanished without a word. No note. No goodbye. Just an empty apartment and a dead phone line.
I poured concrete over the memory of us and moved on. Built a life. Raised my daughter alone.
Now she's back. Walking into Kat's Corner like a ghost. She's thinner than I remember. Shadows carved under her eyes. A flinch that tells me someone taught her to be afraid.
She says she needs help. She says a man is hunting her.
I should turn her away and protect what's mine. Let her deal with her own mess.
Instead, I bring her home to my cabin. To my daughter and the life she doesn't get to be part of anymore.
Harper Tench is still the only woman who ever brought me to my knees. And I'd burn the whole mountain down before I let anyone touch her.
So, whoever's hunting her is about to learn what happens when you threaten what belongs to a Hotshot.
HARPER
I witnessed a murder, and it cost me everything. Six years in witness protection. Six years of fake names and forgettable towns, erasing myself so completely that the man I loved thought I was gone forever.
Now the killer is free, the marshals have cut me loose, and the only person I trust to keep me alive is the same man I destroyed when I disappeared.
Rock Layfield is harder than I remember. Colder. He's a single father now, with a little girl who already calls me by name.
He thinks I left because I got bored. Because he wasn't enough.
He's wrong.
I left because wanting him would have gotten him killed.
But I'm done running and done hiding. When the monster from my past finally comes for me, I'm not going to be the victim anymore.
I'm going to be the trap.
Hard Mountain Hotshots: Climbing Rock is a high-heat, small-town romance featuring forced proximity, a protective single dad hero, and a woman in danger who refuses to break. Contains possessive alphas, found family, and a curvy heroine who fights back. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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