How to Annoy a Mountain Man

The dead don’t cause trouble. The living do.

Jonah Wilder

Celebrity protection, high stakes, high danger…
Nope. I’m guarding a damn cemetery.
Everyone knows the nameless grave.
Ghost hunters. Paranormal influencers. Curious tourists.
Me? I’m just the guy getting paid to keep them out.
That’s fine. Easy money.
Then I see her. Walking among the graves, dressed like she’s attending a Victorian funeral.
At first, I think she’s the problem.
People don’t wander graveyards after dark unless they’re up to something.
Except Briar isn’t looking to exploit the mystery. She wants to solve it.
The last thing I need is to get distracted by a woman who’s obsessed with all things death, history, folklore and local legends.
But the more I learn about the cemetery – and the woman digging up its secrets – the more I can’t stay away.

Briar Hart
There is a presence haunting this graveyard and it’s not paranormal.
It’s six feet of suspicious security guard glaring like it’s his job to keep the dead in line.
That’s fine. I’m used to being judged. Most people don’t understand my desire to document and restore graveyards.
It’s preservation. A refusal to let names disappear just because time passes.
Which is why I can’t ignore the mystery.
A grave without a name. A person erased from history.
Maybe if I dig a little, no pun intended, I can give her back her name.
The problem?
Some people want the truth to stay buried.
Legends get more clicks than history.
If I can’t give this person back their name, the legend will become the only story anyone remembers.
The last person I expected to trust was Jonah.
But somewhere between uncovering the past and restoring it, we might just find a future of our own.

Will these two find love in the most unexpected place…a cemetery?
Find out in this short, Halloween, bodyguard love story, featuring a gruff mountain man and his morbid match. Dual POV, first person, past tense.