There are certain tropes that populate the majority of Mountain Man romances. The smoking hawt MMC is a strong mountain man who can split wood (often shirtless) and build a cabin with ease and just a light amount of decorative sweat for Fanservice purposes. The heroine is a damsel in distress, they fall in love instantly and he fixes her problems. Then they move into his cabin and live happily ever after.
Mountain Refuge turns these tropes on their head. The mountain man in this book is a mountain woman, Brooke, who is strong and capable of fixing her own problems. The damsel in distress in this story is actually a dude in distress, Adam, on the run with his small children when she saves him. This is a slow burn romance with a depth of feeling rarely found in Mountain Man Romance. There is a scene where they are just holding hands that made me cry. Mountain Refuge is a beautiful book that made me feel joy and despair, laughter and tears, with a happy ending that satisfied my heart and left me with a smile.
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