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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Until she makes one herself. Then everything changes. For all of them.

Stealing Northe

“I can’t believe I let you touch me. I can’t believe…” She swallowed against the tightness of her throat. “My son looked up to you. You actually made me believe that you cared about us.”


“I do care about you. I care about both of you more than…more than you would probably believe right now.”


“Because we were a means to an end. You needed me to keep you safe. To help Leon.”


Kenneth shook his head. “You were never a means to an end. If I just wanted to use you that way, I wouldn’t have…I know that I should have just…kept to myself. I know that we should have left as soon as the snow stopped. But I…I just wanted…I just wanted to know you.”


Know her. Oddly enough, she believed him when he said that. He was too young, too green, to be quite crafty enough to deceive her in that regard. He had held himself back until she’d prompted him to ask for more, and it had taken Leon’s taunting inside to move beyond the kissing.


Chapter 25