Rejected Mountain Man Valentine

Five years ago, she ripped my heart out and left me bleeding.

I was thirty-three and stupid enough to fall for a twenty-year-old who made me believe in forever. I offered her everything—my name, my life, a future far from the people trying to tear us apart.

She looked me in the eye and told me she never wanted me.

So I left. Rebuilt myself in a small mountain town where nobody knew my name or my shame. Found purpose with flour-dusted hands and early morning silence. Convinced myself I'd moved on.

Then Chloe Sanders walks into Eden Ridge like she has every right to exist in my space again. She's older now. Curvier. Still the most beautiful thing I've ever seen—and still the only woman who ever broke me.

I should hate her. I should tell her to leave and never come back. But the way she looks at me like she's carrying a secret that's been eating her alive for five years gives me pause.

This Valentine's Day, I'm getting answers. And if the truth is what I think it is, nothing—not her father, not the past, not her own stubborn mouth—is keeping her from me this time.

Rejected Mountain Man Valentine is a second-chance, age-gap romance featuring a gruff mountain man who never stopped wanting her, the woman who shattered him with a lie, and a Valentine's Day confession that changes everything. Guaranteed HEA.