About the Author
Kelsea Fox is the contemporary romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Authors Krysta Fox and K.A. Fox. She writes sweetly steamy instalove romances that offer the perfect escape from the day to day where the HEA is always guaranteed. When not writing, she's likely sneaking bites of chocolate covered caramels or cuddling with her puppy Remi.
Sneak Peaks
KNOX
After failing the ones I loved the most, this feels like my last chance to do something good.
I've lost a lot of people, from my mother to the friends I made on the battlefield, and even my own brother.
My failure to save them still burns through me.
So when I arrive in this small town to take a job promised to me, I don't expect to find a place I want to stay. Or a woman I want to keep forever.
This curvy beauty has given me something I believed I'd lost.
Hope.
But once she realizes her dreams for the future aren't truly gone, will she still want to stay with me?
CORINNE
Everything I worked my whole life for is gone, and there's nothing left for me to salvage.
So when an old friend called to ask me for help at her animal shelter, there's no reason for me to say no.
It's a chance to get back on my feet.
Except I wasn't prepared to fall for the scarred soldier living and working beside me.
When I look in his eyes, I see a loss I recognize, and a desire that mirrors my own.
This handsome veteran has made me question everything I thought my future would be.
But if I choose a different path, will he choose to walk it with me?
GRIFFIN
As a soldier, I had one job - protect the people around me.
When a mission goes wrong and the group I was assigned to guard are killed, I'm nothing but a failure.
That legacy haunts me, and I hold myself apart from everyone, unwilling to risk losing anyone ever again.
Until a curvy redhead storms past my defenses with her sunny smile, and I can't stop myself from falling for her.
She's everything I'm not, and willing to give me her heart.
But accepting her love will require the one thing I'm sure I no longer have...
Courage.
And once she sees how afraid I am of losing her, how could she ever choose to be with me?
VICTORIA
Coming back to the small town I grew up in is temporary.
I'm here to help my family with their restaurant until my sister is back on her feet, and then I'll head back to the city to continue building my future as a graphic artist.
It's a good plan.
Until I lock eyes with the growly veteran who says very little but haunts my dreams when I fall asleep.
He's big, brooding, and protective.
And every smile I pull from him feels like another battle won.
He makes me believe the life I'm looking for starts here. With him.
I'm brave enough to seize a chance at love, to find a way we can fight any challenge side by side.
But in the end, will he stand with me? Or walk away after all?
LAUREL
I shouldn't have been out on the road that night. I knew it, my co-workers knew it.
When I believe in something, I will stop at nothing to do what needs to be done. The shelter I interned at last summer needs the charitable donation my boss promised to make. At least until he decided that a ski trip was more important and took off without signing the final paperwork.
Which is why I was creeping up an unfamiliar mountain road, went around a curve and slid into a tree. I'm fine, but my car isn't, and help is a long, cold, hike away.
Until a man pulls up and offers me a ride. He's big, grouchy and irritated, but there's a warmth hiding behind his defenses.
And maybe, just maybe, the heat I see in his eyes means something I never expected.
MERRITT
I came to this mountain to get away from people and their constant need to hurry through their lives. All the racing around and constant pressure chased me away from the city to the peace of a home surrounded by nature.
Finding a stranded woman in the middle of a snowstorm, I do the decent thing and offer her a lift into town. When she has nowhere to stay and refuses to leave without accomplishing the task that brought her here, I find myself opening up my own home to this stranger.
It's supposed to be a temporary situation. Wait out the storm, get her car fixed, and send her on her way. The only problem is, the more time we spend together, the less I want her to leave.
I'm nobody's hero. But maybe, just maybe, I could be hers.
Anders
I came to this mountain to hide from the world.
From the people who stare at my scars, who whisper when I walk in the room, and even those who thank me for my service.
Because it's all a reminder of what I went through and the ones I failed to save.
But when a call comes in that there's a lone woman stranded with a winter storm bearing down, I can't keep hiding.
And once I find the curvy beauty and bring her safely home, will I ever be able to let her go?
Eva
Running from the past seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but when my car breaks down on a lonely mountain pass, I'm sure I made the wrong choice.
Until my handsome rescuer appears through the whirling wind-blown snow, and leads me to his safe, warm cabin, where I find we both have scars that mark us.
He helps me confront the fear I was hiding from, and shows me what's possible when I let myself give in to pleasure.
But when the storm blows over, will he want me to stay or let me go on my way?