Widow Amy Northe hasn’t known a man’s company in the six years since her husband died. That all changes the night her son comes in from chores with two strangers in tow. Kenneth and Leon are seeking shelter, and though Amy wants to turn them away, she can’t. There’s a blizzard moving through the Utah mountains, and Leon’s busted ankle has him teetering on the edge of consciousness. She does the only thing she can and takes them in, unaware of the secrets these young men hide.
Kenneth doesn’t want to take advantage of the older woman’s hospitality, even though she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. But Leon needs help and Amy is a nurse. If he has to satisfy his desire for her with covert trysts with Leon, then that’s what he’ll do, especially since he’s too much of a gentleman to ever think of making advances.
Until she makes one herself. Then everything changes. For all of them.
Chapter 1Whistling wind made Amy Northe anxious, especially when it was as frigid as the gales whipping through Yellow Rock. It always presaged change, whether it announced a storm that would keep them locked away for days on end, or something else entirely, like the winds that had blown the side off her parents’ house when she was only seven. They’d had to move after that. Her mother had never been the same. The January storm that had blasted through the tiny Utah mining town two days earlier looked to be turning back. Clouds rolled thick and black overhead, while the winds erased the fresh dusting over the packed snow. Temperatures had dropped drastically since lunchtime, giving Amy no choice but to haul in more firewood. She needed to stock up for the night. If the snows returned, it w