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

“He doesn’t have people he cares about. He has you.”


“Why aren’t you turning us in now? Did you come to some sort of agreement with him?”


Kenneth’s warning echoed inside her head. “I’m not turning you in, because I’m a non-Mormon widow who refuses to marry one of the oh-so available bachelors in the middle of a Mormon community. They’re just looking for a reason to get rid of me for good. I’m not about to hand it to them on a silver platter.”


“I think if Kenneth only cared about me, that reason wouldn’t have persuaded him to stick around and risk it. Hell, if I were mobile, it wouldn’t work on me.”


This conversation was getting her nowhere. Amy wasn’t even sure what had dragged her into it in the first place. With a shake of her head, she returned to her cool wash water and bent down to pick up the basin.


“Then I guess it’s a good thing for me you’re stuck in that chair for the time being.”


Chapter 27