Donna Steele

Ox has spent years isolated from the world beneath the silence of the mountain. His days are predictable, his world deliberately small, until the crack of a gunshot and a desperate scream force him back into the life he abandoned. It was supposed to be a romantic little getaway. Hike in, camp under the stars, and hike back out. Unfortunately for Jordan, she'd missed the memo that her fiancé had no intentions of her returning.
Bleeding, alone, and miles from civilization, Jordan's last hope arrives in the form of a mysterious mountain man. He carries her to safety, tends her wounds, and asks for nothing in return. But the more time she spends with the quiet stranger, the more she realizes she's falling for a man that not quite human.