Snowbound Summer — Sally Clements

Summer in the snow… Restaurant owner Summer Costello, reeling from recent failures in her perfect life, is hiding out in her childhood home. When she finds an injured dog outside in a snowstorm, she calls the local vet, who turns out to be her younger brother Declan's best friend, gorgeous Nick Logan. She's his secret crushâ€"no woman Nick's dated has matched up to the fantasy of being with Summer, the woman who blazed out of Brookbridge for a new life in London years ago. Now, a dog needs his aid, and despite treacherous conditions he drives out to help. She'll be there with her boyfriend, and surely his infatuation will have burned itself out? Stranded in a snowstorm, Summer sizzles with attraction for the man Nick has become. And when Summer confides her long-term relationship is over, and suggests a clandestine fling, is there any way Nick can resist her, even though she's the one woman Declan warned him to keep away from?