Mountain Boss

Mountain Men Series, Book 1

By: S.J. Tilly

Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Connor Crais

Courtney

I’m just so exhausted—always living on the edge of desperation, one paycheck away from ruin.

But this new job…

It could be the fresh start I need.

It could change everything.

The contract is only for three months, but if I keep my head down, work hard, and prove myself, maybe I could stay longer.

Maybe I could make Black Mountain Lodge my home.

As I pull down the gravel drive, surrounded by the forest and mountains and bright blue skies, I feel something I haven’t felt in a while.

I feel hope.

Sterling

My new employee is late.

I’m already in a bad mood about having to train him, still salty about my old guy retiring on me.

But while I’m waiting, a woman pulls up my drive.

A woman straight from my damn dreams.

Curvy and pretty, looking at me with wide eyes framed with sooty lashes.

And suddenly, I’m no longer thinking about my late employee.

But then she opens her mouth and asks for me, introducing herself as Courtney, my new hire.

Courtney. Not Court, like the application said.

And I realize there’s been a mistake.

I can’t have this woman working here. Living on my property. Distracting me. I mean, my staff.

No. She can’t work for me. End of story.

Except she won’t leave. She even threatens to sue me.

Fine. If she won’t let me fire her before she even starts, then I’ll just have to make her leave on her own.

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DUET SJ Tilly?!?!?!?! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

FINALLY A DUET SJ AUDIOBOOK!! 🤩🤩
Another great SJ Tilly story.
Took me a while to like Sterling (Kind of like how it takes a while to like Vincent/Mr. Sin) but he's great to Courtney. Not too sad, very funny and cute.
Male narrator sounds like Jacob Morgan / Zachary Webber 😛😛

Fantastic

I read this book as an arc and then immediately jump into the audio on release day. The narrators did such a good job bringing the characters to life & I even caught a few one liners in the audio that didn't stick out in the book originally. Absolutely loved it!

Hot Mountain Boss! ⛰️ 🥵

Courtney Kern (MFC) is struggling financially and has taken a maintenance position with Black Mountain Lodge for three months that includes lodging. She arrives at the lodge without realizing her boss, Sterling Black (MMC), assumed by her name, “Court”, that his new maintenance employee was a man, because all of his employees are men and the only place he has for her to sleep is the barracks with his men and that won’t work!

She’s not having any excuses for why he doesn’t want her working at this lodge so, she stays and their inevitable attraction grows more and more each day until Sterling acts on it.

Sterling is the boss, he’s controlling and demanding of her, but she’s not entirely sure where they are with what’s going on between them, but she does know that it’s not casual to her.

Excellent story, not sure why/who decided to do so many, extremely small chapters in this book and questioning why they also decided to break up smexy times with a new chapter???
The first few times it happened I thought Ms.Tilly was giving us a “fade to black” story, also known as a “closed door” romance 💘. Still no idea why anyone decided to do this 🤔, but alas it did continue to open scenes, just with the interruption of chapter breaks?

Anyway, 5⭐️, I enjoyed the story and all of the characters.

10/10

Oh my mountain boss!!!! SJ has exceeded expectations & this book was amazing. Courtney & Sterling are so beautiful together and the love story is so sweet

The first 1/2 was great

I wanted to like this book more. I didn’t like the hero by the end. I don’t understand when men who obsess leave without communicating which he does multiple times and she never holds him accountable. He wasn’t ill willed but I just didn’t feel the emotional side.

Chef’s kiss!

This has all the things you want in a mountain daddy romance. Period. The spice was super good and way more angsty than I thought it was gonna be but loved that. It’s worth it! 📕5 🌶️4

Yes! I’m all in for this series.

This book was so good. Matured men, realistic situations and reactions. Loved it! I hope the next one comes soon.

Loved it.. but..

The absolute only thing that annoyed me about this book was the constant back and forth narration. I LOVE that its a duet, but after a while, the constant chapter changes even having some that are less than 1 minute were extremely annoying. I loved the story though.

Listen now

Amazing amazing amazing. It’s all I can say. Tilly does it again. Sterling and Courtney are perfect.

I NEED more please and thank you

Two of my favorite narrators did a great job bringing this story to life. I didn't want the story to end. I can not wait for what comes next and hopefully soon 🙏🏻.