Fish Out of Water

Dahlia Weathersby’s sister Rose has gone missing on a hike in the Colorado Rockies. The local police aren’t worried, but an SOS text that Dahlia received at the time of Rose’s disappearance suggests something nefarious has happened. Rose is the only family Dahlia has, so she drops everything, travels to the small town of Howling Falls (Rose’s last known location), and starts asking questions. The trail leads her to local hermit Winston Dane. Winston has no answers for Dahlia, but she manages to convince (okay, blackmail) the hot, grumpy mountain man to be her guide as she tries to track Rose’s path through the mountain wilderness. Her attraction to Winston helps distract her from her worries about Rose, and when they’re trapped in a tent during a snowstorm, things heat up between them. The mystery of the missing sister, while the catalyst for the plot, soon takes a back seat to the growing relationship between Dahlia and Winston.