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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spicy but female narrator annoying

The story was fine, adequately spicy. The male narrator was good, but the female narrators 's tone was soooo annoying. She ended every chapter with the same inflection, and there are a LOT of chapters. Listener beware.

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.

Loved the duet narration!

Loved the story! It was sweet and Sterling was the best grumpy cinnamon roll mountain boss with a dirty mouth 😂 The duet narration was awesome and both of them did an amazing job! The only thing that I really hated was the constant chapter changes with each POV! It was like, “I looked at her and thought she was cute”. CHAPTER 5,846- Courtney: “I stared into his handsome face thinking he was so grumpy, but I loved it!” CHAPTER 5,847…… It was so frustrating and was really distracting! Overall though, it was a good book 👍

Mr. Black

The ate this up in just a day!! I was smiling and kicking my feet the whole time. SJ Tilly truly knows how to write the best boyfriends. I love how hard Sterling fell for Courtney!! I might just listen to this whole audiobook again😍🙌🏼

Just OK

It was okay. Cute plot, but predictable. I really did not like how weak the author made FMC sound, always crying over every little thing, when she was actually supposed to be quite strong given her upbringing and how she persevered despite everything. It was also super choppy with all the very short chapters and messed up the flow. This could have easily been much less chapters. The narrators were the best part about this book. I will listen to Connor Crais any day!