Safekeeping — Peg Sutherland

EIGHT MONTHS AND COUNTING...

The last few weeks of her pregnancy seem interminable to Quinn Santori. Which is why she planned this pleasant diversion -- a fall afternoon with her two young companions. Never in her wildest dreams did she think they'd be trapped by a snowstorm in an isolated mountain cabin. Especially a cabin already inhabited -- by a man toting a gun. They make an odd foursome -- Quinn, the two little girls in her charge and ex-con Whit Sloane. And chances are their numbers will increase to five before the snow melts.

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