Branded Mountain Man

He branded himself off-limits. She lit the match anyway. Former smokejumper Colt's rebuilding a fire tower alone on the highest peak, branded by scars and guilt from the fire that killed his best friend. When wilderness therapist Sloan hikes up for a mandated wellness check, she finds a man determined to punish himself forever. Too bad she specializes in healing the unhealable. He tells her to leave. She tells him she's not scared of his scars. Sloan's job is helping isolated workers process trauma, but Colt's different. He's not just hiding from people—he's hiding from himself. When a blizzard traps them in his tower, the fire between them ignites everything he's tried to bury. She sees past his scars to the man underneath. He sees past her professional mask to the woman who heals others because she understands being broken. Can a woman who fixes broken souls save a man who's convinced he's beyond repair?