Someone -- or something -- is causing magical blizzards at Fairleigh Hall. The estate is suffering, and the Earl has requested assistance. Constable Kit Thompson, of Bow Street’s Preternatural Division, isn’t especially thrilled to be sent out to the country. At least the assignment gets him away from fashionable London society and his own unwanted celebrity after successfully solving a notorious case. Of course, he’s now trapped at a country estate due to closed roads, snowstorms, and magic, but Kit’s always liked solving puzzles. He’s good at using empathic skills for investigations, and this is definitely a challenge. Besides, the Earl’s younger brother is an irritating and delicious temptation, all blue eyes and muscles and boundless enthusiastic optimism. Kit wants to either shake sense into him or kiss him senseless -- and can’t trust him, either, because if someone’s genuinely sabotaging the weather, everyone’s a suspect. Harry Arden, younger brother of the Earl of Fairleigh, has never met a Preternatural Division constable before, much less a famous and celebrated one. He wants to help. And he wants to make that attractive but cynical constable smile, at least once. But the estate hides a family secret, and Harry knows perfectly well Kit doesn’t trust him ... and for good reason. Still, Harry offers to do what he can to assist with the investigation, and if that means spending more time with Kit, that’s a bonus. When Harry and Kit end up caught by those magical storms, snowed in together at the old hunting lodge, they’ll have to trust each other with their secrets ... and their hearts.

Snowed In: Kit and Harry

Aloud, he only said, “For now I’ll attempt to discover the actual cause behind the weather. I should be able to do that from here, if you don’t mind.”


“Please do,” Edward said. “We’d appreciate it.” Elizabeth glanced at him, wordless and supportive, and nodded.


Harry asked earnestly, “Is there anything you need? Any way we can assist you?” He was sitting forward more; the offer was truthful, stamped in eyes and shoulders and hands. “Anything at all.”


“No.” Kit shut both eyes. Was surprised at how much something in him wanted to answer yes. To find out whether Harry meant that offer, and how much would be given, if Kit pushed at that anything at all. “Be silent for a moment, if you would.”


Chapter 7