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

“Maybe I can’t, but I’ll still try.”


She turned into his palm, her mouth brushing over the rough calluses on the heel. Her heart had chosen that moment to start racing, thudding in her ears loud enough to drown everything but him out. It was ridiculous to be so overwhelmed by his declaration. Nothing had really changed.


Nothing had really changed. Kenneth was still the same gentle soul who had risked life and limb to save his friend. He was still the trusting man who had believed her when she’d said she wouldn’t turn him in. He was still the careful lover who made her feel beautiful when she knew she was anything but. It wasn’t in him to kill anyone. She knew that now.


And she believed him when he vowed to try.


“What do youwant?” she said softly. “Forget what you think I want. Do you want to stay because you’re tired of running?”


Chapter 29