Flint I work in stone. I know what lasts and what doesn’t. I’ve had a piece of granite sitting in my workshop for three months that I couldn’t bring myself to start.
Then a landscape architect showed up on the hillside, crouched down in the dirt beside me, and read the land the same way I do. I made the first cut that night.
Turned out I’d been waiting for her to show me where to start.
Ivy I design gardens for grief. I know how to hold loss, where to put it, how to let it root, and what it needs to become something bearable.
I came to Silver Ridge for four months and a memorial commission. I did not come for a silent, immovable stonemason who says almost nothing and somehow means all of it.
Everything he does is built to last. I build things that grow and change. I didn’t plan on wanting both. –
Kept by the Silent Mountain Man is a short, steamy age-gap instalove romance with a guaranteed happy-ever-after.
It can be read as a standalone or as part of the Blue Collar Men of Silver Ridge series.
