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

Leon scowled. “That’s not the point.”


“Yes, it is. You’re telling me I’m going to get tired of her or get distracted. Now you need to tell me the last time I tired of somebody I cared about or was distracted by a pretty face.”


He looked down at the wood in his hands, turning it over to work over a different section. “You make it sound like it’s more than the coupling.” His voice sounded different. Distant. Too controlled. “Is it?”


Leon wouldn’t like to hear this, but Kenneth wouldn’t lie to him either. “It is. Much more than that.”


A log fell in the fireplace, sparks crackling as the flames danced for a moment to adjust to the new arrangement before settling again. The steady scrape of Leon’s knife over the wood had always been a comforting sound to Kenneth, something soothing he’d fallen asleep to more than once under the stars. Now, it abraded his nerves, a reminder that Leon had yet to agree to his wishes.


Chapter 34