Registered nurse Brynn Norseman hasn’t had the easiest time in her career. Her days at work are spent in the quiet telemetry monitoring station instead of where she truly wants to be -- caring for patients.<br><br>All Nikki Mortelli ever wanted was to become a lawyer, but bailing out trust fund brats and corporate sharks wasn’t what she had in mind when she’d passed her bar exam.<br><br>A late night spent perusing through the aisles of the local co-op ends in a chance meeting between the two women. Though instantly infatuated with the other woman, Brynn worries her tattered past will get in the way of a meaningful connection. When they’re forced together during a freak snowstorm, can Brynn put her fears aside and open up to Nikki?

Snowed In: Nikki and Brynn

She hit the ground hard on her back, the air in her lungs being forced out on impact and she coughed, rolling to her side. Her body was numb from the waist down and she wouldn’t have known her phone was ringing if her sound hadn’t been turned on high. Still on her side in the falling snow, Brynn fished her phone out of her pocket and tried to answer the call. She snatched her glove off before finally being able to answer it.


“Hey, what did you mean you were on your way home now?” It was Nikki Mortelli’s soft voice on the other end, causing a heat to flutter to life within her despite the cold temperatures. She shifted her weight on the ground, attempting to push herself off the ground but failing.


“It means I’m on my way home right now,” she grunted as she sat up in the thick snow, a full body tremble raking through her.


“The roads are impossible. There’s no way you’d get your car through the snow. You aren’t walking, are you?”


Chapter 14