Massachusetts State Trooper Ross Huber is giving one last sweep of the roads before heading in for the night. The nor’easter hitting the Boston area is worse than expected by an order of magnitude, and the governor has just issued a travel ban. Ross finds a wrecked car half-buried in a snowbank and rescues its human and canine occupants from carbon monoxide poisoning, but is forced to take shelter with them in a vacant or abandoned house when the roads are blocked. When he gets the victims indoors, he thinks the human looks uncomfortably familiar ... Ash Machado has been through a lot in his career as a war correspondent. Sidelined by an injury, he’s returned to Boston to take up a job as a news anchor. After he loses control of his car on an icy road, he wakes up in an unfamiliar home, looking into the face of the guy who broke his heart in college. Neither Ross nor Ash are the same men they used to be, but now they’re trapped in the abandoned house with no place to go. Can they get past old hurts long enough to get through the storm, or will the same misunderstandings that drove them apart years ago make this confinement unbearable?

Snowed In: Ross and Ashton

He fed Porthos and sank back down to the ground. This room was chillier than the other one, and it would be better if he could share some heat with Ross. Granted, right now he wanted to share body heat with Ross about as much as he wanted to jump right back out into the snow.


That wasn’t true, and he admitted it to himself as soon as the thought popped into his head. He wanted to be curled up around Ross, even though he was angry enough to shake. It had been a long time since he’d been with someone who knew him well enough to get to him that way. He hadn’t been avoiding intimacy, his life just didn’t lend itself to that kind of connection. And to be honest, it felt good to have someone around who could get that pissed off at him, who wantedto get to him that badly, who wanted Ash to feel something.


It also hurt almost as bad as Ash’s stiff joints and aching chest, but he guessed he couldn’t get the silver lining without a few clouds.


Chapter 23