Dannie Marino is hiking with colleagues when a sudden blizzard separates her from her group. She’s rescued by Lee, a dangerously sexy stranger who leads her to a remote cabin to weather the storm.
When the night inevitably ends in an intense erotic encounter, Dannie is both shocked and liberated by her response. But being intimate means letting herself be vulnerable, which isn’t her style. Lee tries to reach out to her, but she avoids any emotional entanglement by pushing him away.
Snowed in and unable to hide from each other, Dannie and Lee must both face up to their most closely guarded emotions. When the storm abates, will they be able to stop running from the past and live fully in the future?
Dannie is on a hike trying to decompress when she gets lost after stopping from a potty break when she gets lost. Unfortunately its started to not only snow but quickly tuns into a blizzard. Dannie quickly realizes that she’s getting farther away from where she should be by trying to find her way off the mountain. She decides to stay put and eventually she is saved by a fellow hiker and friend of the hiking guide, Lee.
Lee and Dannie manage to get to a cabin nearby (that belongs to the hiking guide) and they hunker down to wait out the storm. Lee is trying his best to make Dannie comfortable in the cabin but Dannie is incredibly uncomfortable. You see, Dannie had noticed Lee the minute he got out of his car at the start of the hike and she’s highly attracted to him. Being cooped up in a cabin alone with him is making her a bit crazy with lust. Little does she know that Lee is just as crazy with lust as Dannie is.
Lee and Dannie decide to act on their lust but soon after the first time they’re together Dannie starts going back into her shell and tries to push Lee away. What follows is not only Lee trying to break through Dannie’s emotional barriers but breaking down some walls of his own as the couple gets closer and closer during their three days in the cabin.
This was an unexpectedly emotional read. I really expected an erotic story read and got something so much more.
Dannie is a nurse and had emotionally closed herself off from personal relationships. She used up all of her emotion on her patients that were only in her life for a very short time. Her marriage had failed because of it and she was stuck in this dark cut off place in her life. Though I could kind of understand the reasons she was closed off it was hard for me to understand her continuing resistance to Lee. Most of the time he was being all that was good and kind and she still stood her ground. I guess there are those people in the world that it takes an anvil falling from the sky before the understand something.
Lee was emotionally stilted as well. He had lived through 9/11 and the death of his wife and though he had dated in the past 9 years since her death he hadn’t had a serious relationship since then. Dannie, though was different and he felt something more for her than just lust. Even though he wasn’t standing on solid ground himself he knows that he wants more than three days with Dannie – he wants more. I really liked Lee so very much. He was an all around nice guy. He did admit to knowing a little bit more about Dannie than he lets on which was a tad weird but it was all good in the end.
Overall it was a very good book and a story that I really enjoyed. Definitely worth the read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
