From USA Today bestselling author of Dangerous Secrets comes another story in the Heartbreak Falls series. A small-town protector romance about two people who'd stopped hoping — and the blizzard that gave them no choice but to start.

Kit O'Shea has rebuilt her life exactly the way she wants it: a rambling inn near Lake Tahoe, a loaded shotgun by the door, and no room in her heart for another man who'll leave. She survived one betrayal.

She's not giving anyone the chance to deliver a second.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Luke Elliott has been chasing fugitives long enough to stop thinking about home. He has a job to finish and a rule about getting attached. He's not planning on stopping long enough to break it.

Then a blizzard locks them inside Falls View Inn with a dangerous man circling in the dark, and all the rules go out the window.