Today's the day! The last of the Jones brothers is getting his happily ever after.

Running to the Mountain features:

Age gap

Dual virgins

Off limits

Forced proximity

And just one bed sleeping bag!

Along with more Jones family fun-- the Joneses have really stolen my heart when it comes to my own found family fantasies.

River Jones

Cinnamon says I'm off limits but she's the woman I've been waiting for.

Growing up, my brothers and I all heard the story of how Mom and Dad knew they were meant to be together the moment they saw each other. Somehow, I always knew that's how it was going to be for me too.

That's why I never took the opportunities I had to get more experience with any of the girls that came up to the river every summer.

Then I see Cinnamon; the cutie that got hired to help with camp support for the river rafting outfit my family owns.

One look at her honey-colored hair and the curves that have me dreaming of holding her close and I know I'm looking at my future in those sky-blue eyes of hers.

Too bad I'm her boss's son.

Cinnamon tells me she ran to the mountains looking for a fresh start, but we both know you can't run from fate.

Cinnamon

It's hard trying to start over when you haven't even started to begin with.

Not even twenty-one yet and I'm already trying to out-run my past. I can't afford to lose this job if I have any hope of getting the fresh start I desperately need.

River Jones is the handsomest man I've ever seen in my life, but the boss's son is strictly off limits.

Too bad no one seems to have explained that to him.

I'm doing my best to avoid getting too close to the tempting mountain man but when a sudden storm leaves me stranded with him overnight; there's just one tiny tent, just one sleeping bag, and just one need burning inside me.

***

Welcome to Moonshine Ridge and the rugged wilderness surrounding the remote mountain community where the history is long, the local lore is deep, and the men are as wild as the mountains they come from.

Protective, possessive, totally obsessed; the men of Moonshine Ridge will do anything necessary to claim the women they love and give her the happily ever after she deserves.

The Moonshine Ridge books contain a lot of insta-love, some swearing, some steamy scenes, zero cheating, and a lot of swoon-worthy happy endings. They're interconnected with recurring characters but can be read as stand-alones in any order.

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If you're one of the 16 people who follow me on either Facebook and/or Instagram...you still probably wouldn't have gotten to see any of the photos I share there because Meta won't even show my posts to most of the people who follow me! #socialmediaproblems

But this week's photos are so awesome that I've been stopping strangers around the campground to show them off!

A few of you know I got to stay a few months in Alaska back in 2021 and before I left, I was able to catch a really good Aurora show!

I tell everyone-- the northern lights (or southern, since they happen at both poles!) should absolutely, ten million percent, be on everyone's bucket list!

Back in April, I was dismayed to emerge from one of my offline campsites to discover I had missed an epic solar storm that brought a Kp 6 show of the aurora as far south as Mammoth Lakes, CA.

My friend near Colorado Springs had captured some nice photos from her property even.

I was pretty bummed I didn't know it happened -- I'd been outside of Las Vegas and even another nomad not far from me had managed to catch it on camera.

So, fast forward to just this past weekend.

There I was, around 10 pm, sitting at my desk in the hobo house, trying to get River and Cinnamon's story wrapped up.

My phone kinda/sorta/sometimes gets signal up in my current camp but I was shocked when it lit up with a notification that I have not seen since I was in Alaska!

It said there was a Kp index 6 in my area with a 1% chance of seeing the Aurora.

My first thought was that the app obviously had my location wrong! But I remembered that there had been activity farther south than this back in April, so I double checked.

Then I ran outside in my pajamas while trying to put the big camera together in a rush!

These were taken from just south of Ely, NV. The lights weren't really visible to the naked eye, but the camera saw them plenty well (and maybe I would have too if I could keep my eyes open for 15 seconds without blinking like the camera can!)

I love the way the moon lit up the foreground too.

I'm really proud of the way these photos came out.

If you're one of the people who saw them on the social feeds-- thanks for following me there!

Next up in photos: I start trying to take pictures of the Perseids meteor shower.

Next up in the Moonshine Ridge Mountain Men: Vale Diaz and his little Sparrow...I'll tell you more about them next week!

~Rocklyn