He spent thirty-four years being chosen second. Then a vampire and a mountain went to war over who got to keep him first.
Jace Warren arrives at Black Pine Mountain Retreat hollowed out — divorced, broke, and running on bourbon and a brochure that promised renewal. What he finds is Canyon Thibodeaux: six-three of scarred, silver-eyed wilderness guide with three rules and a voice that makes Jace’s pulse do things it never did in eleven years of marriage.
Don’t go into the forest alone after dark. Don’t question his decisions. Don’t ask what happens after midnight.
Jace breaks all three within twenty-four hours.
Because Canyon isn’t a man. He’s a three-hundred-year-old predator who has spent centuries refusing to love what he might destroy — and Jace’s heartbeat sings at a frequency Canyon’s blood recognized before the bus even stopped. Now the wolves are watching. The mountain is whispering. And a beautiful golden-haired rival has arrived with an offer, a warning, and a thousand-year-old master who collects rare things.
Jace Warren just became the rarest thing on the continent.
“Tell me to stop and I stop. Whatever else I am, that holds. Always.” (bold)
Inside this book: (then a compact trope list — these are your binge-trigger signals)
🖤 A possessive alpha vampire who claims in public and worships in private
🖤 Touch him and die — enforced by teeth, wolves, and geology
🖤 A sexuality awakening written with tenderness, not shame
🖤 Fated mates, a blood bond, and a ritual with a devastating cost
🖤 Found family: a retired CFO with a shotgun, an anxious man who becomes a watchtower, and a rival who breaks your heart
🖤 Three seconds of silence that will make you throw your Kindle
CLAIMED BY THE MOUNTAIN VAMPIRE is Book One of the Black Pine Guardians series: a full-length, scorching-hot MM paranormal romance with a hard-won HEA for Jace and Canyon and a series-arc villain who just learned what losing costs. Explicit content, blood play, dominance dynamics. 18+ only.
The mountain keeps what it chooses. One-click and let it choose you.
