No cell service. No Wi-Fi. No way she’s falling for him.
After a meltdown on a live earnings call, Seattle tech CEO Sloane Whitaker is ordered by her own board to take thirty days off. Her assistant books the most remote place in America that still has indoor plumbing: a fishing lodge on the upper Boulder River in Montana, with no signal and a rotary phone in the kitchen.
Her Tesla dies sixteen miles short. The lodge’s owner tows her in behind his drift boat.
Eli Brandvold is the lodge’s only guide, its only handyman and, as of this summer, three months from losing it to the bank. He needs her $40,000 deposit more than he’ll ever admit. He thinks she’s a phone with legs. She thinks he’s a hick with a boat. Every morning at six, he puts her in that boat anyway.
She climbs a cottonwood looking for one bar of signal. She hooks him in the ear on her first cast. And somewhere between a moose in the vegetable garden and dead last in the county fair pie contest, Sloane starts doing math in the middle of the night, and it isn’t about her company.
Inside you’ll find
- Enemies to lovers
- Forced vacation, no cell service
- A workaholic heroine and a grumpy fishing guide
- A moose named the Board of Directors
- A hailstorm and a cabin on the river
- A phone thrown into the Boulder River
Hooked on the Fishing Guide is Book 3 in The Cowboys of Sweet Grass County. Standalone, with a guaranteed happily ever after.