Bearskin & Bad Manners - A Grumpy Mountain Man Protector Romance #989882

**He wanted solitude. She arrived with a backpack, a bad attitude, and absolutely no survival instincts.**

Bramble Calder likes three things: his cabin, his mountains, and being left alone.

Unfortunately, Elowen Pike has just stumbled into all three.

She comes to Blackpine Ridge to document a rare mountain animal before its habitat disappears. Bramble considers her presence a nuisance, her questions unbearable, and her habit of wandering into dangerous places downright suicidal.

Elowen considers Bramble rude, overgrown, and annoyingly attractive.

Then the Blackpine Whiteout hits.

With the mountain buried beneath snow and the trail home erased, Bramble has no choice but to drag the stubborn woman back to Bear's Hollow and keep her alive until the storm passes.

One night becomes several.

Arguments become teasing.

And somewhere between chopping firewood, sharing a tiny cabin, and discovering that the terrifying mountain man has a surprisingly gentle heart, Elowen begins to wonder if Bramble's bark is hiding something far more dangerous to her than the wilderness.

Because Bramble has spent years protecting his mountain from everyone.

Now he's determined to protect her.

Even if protecting Elowen means risking the one thing he swore he'd never give anyone again:

His heart.