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

Testing Woody on the matter didn’t help at all. At her carefully worded question about how he felt about Kenneth, her son immediately brightened. All he could talk about was all the things Kenneth was doing for him, things his father would have done if he’d lived. He even expressed interest in knowing what Kenneth’s home and family were like.


He never did that with her own family. Or Ernest’s. That told Amy all she needed to know.


It took eight days for her to work up her courage, and even then she waited until Leon had drifted asleep before slipping out of bed and into the warmer main room.


As soon as Kenneth saw her, he untangled himself from the makeshift bed on the floor and stood without disturbing Leon.


Chapter 35