In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

This is me. Despite our long separation, I know you. You may pretend to be fine, but I don’t buy it.” He stopped her from moving by putting his hands on her shoulders. He pulled...

She was licking something off the end of a wooden spoon. Red froze. His body reacted as if he’d walked in on her twirling half-naked on a pole….Frankie was intriguing. Unsettling. Challenging He wanted to...

Marion’s town slogan was “Where Main Street Meets Mountain.” That was one of the reasons she’d loved the town, with the nearby woods, its colorful shops, and the feeling that time hadn’t touched it the...

You’re pretty low maintenance, as women go.””I am, am I?” She sounded amused.”Yeah. Like a cactus.

I’m resourceful,” she called after him.Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she’d left in the bucket. “A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals,” he called out to her.”If I were so successful,”...

She’d gotten even prettier over the years.And now she was in his house.And he had no idea if this was the best thing to happen to him or the stupidest thing he’d ever done.Kelsey watched...

Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.

It’s nothing fancy, I opened a jar of sauce and cooked the linguine. But there’s fresh Parmesan and I even found a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon.””You found wine.” Earlier he’d been thinking about microwaved Who...

You don’t have any baking stuff, do you? I like to bake when I’m hyper. My mom and I were supposed to make all the Christmas cookies tomorrow, but it looks like I won’t be...

She tossed a handful of snow at his face, then shrieked as the wind whipped it back into her own.Red hooted. “Karma’s a boomerang, sweetheart. Don’t forget it.

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. “Do you have something against happiness?””Yes. Don’t tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

Life’s too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

Mom laughed. “Well that’s why, when it’s real, you do whatever you have to do to work it out. Screw stability. Forget common sense. Make a move.

I hope you brought your handcuffs,” she added. “I won’t go quietly.””I might use them anyway, for fun,” he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his.

Nate came back into the kitchen, his hair slightly messy from having had the beanie on. The gray thermal Henley he wore gave him a rugged, all-man look that made her heart skip a couple...

I’m named after my father, Rudolph,” he said, then shot her a stern look. “But if you connect that with my red nose —

He dipped his head to kiss her again. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he slowly lowered her back to the floor. He took his time tasting her lips, her tongue, memorizing the...

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he’d never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. “So, what then? You’re holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?””I am,” he said, highly amused at her attempt...

Hey, Kelsey.” He squinted at her. “I knew the water in Charlotte was a problem, but I didn’t know it made hair turn purple,” he joked.Kelsey smiled at him, a mischievous glint in her eye....

I did bring a bowl of water, in case you wished to blend with the masses.

Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer,” he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.

She closed her eyes, soaking in the feel of his hand, then opened them and stared at his perfect face as longing wrapped itself around her heart. “If this is a mistake, it’s one I’ll...

I cannot wait another moment to have you in my arms.

Once in rur-al Flathead coun-tyStood a cru-wel Christmas sceneDumped for slaugh-ter were the rein-deerWhen an elf did intervene.

If you could travel anywhere in the US for a vacation, where would you go?”He reached up with his free hand and rubbed his jaw, two creases forming between his eyebrows. She wanted to take...

Because I don’t want you to think I have any reason for doing this other than because I wish to.

Rory’s big labradoodle made a snap judgement that Frankie was everything her life had been missing up until now. She flung herself into the girl’s arms, wiggling and whining, a shaggy mass of chocolate-colored enthusiasm.”Mistral...

Nate wrapped his arms around her, holding her close. “Let’s get you back and I’ll build you a fire.”She liked the way he said it. He’d build HER a fire.” …As they walked toward the...

So how many tattoos do you have exactly?” she asked as Travis met her at the front of her car. It was a question she’d been dying to ask but she couldn’t believe she’d just...

Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

From now on, every Christmas, let’s have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.