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

It made her skin crawl. He missed nothing. He evidenced that with nearly everything that had ever come out of his mouth. The way he watched her now made her feel like a mouse scuttling about, oblivious to the cat waiting to pounce. She dropped the soap repeatedly, and once, she nearly soaked the bodice of her dress. His gaze finally became too much as she was wringing out one of Woody’s shirts.


“Will you stop that infernal whistling?” she snapped. “It’s giving me a headache.”


“Sure thing, darling. Though I don’t think it’s my whistling that’s got you all knotted up.”


“I’m not knotted up. I just have a lot to get done.” The line she had run over the corner near the fireplace fell beneath the weight of the new shirt she added to it, and she cursed silently. “Now look what you made me do.”


“You’re in quite the mood, aren’t you? Maybe you shouldn’t have let Kenny disappear for the afternoon.”


Chapter 26