Seraphina Mason returns to New Hampshire to face her past; what she doesn’t expect is to have her past—heartbreaker Sheriff Jake Candellori—get snowed in at her house. Sera has come home to put her past behind her and move on with her life. She fully intends to forgive and forget the mess she made with her ex-lover when her empathic powers overwhelmed Jake during an intimate moment and he took off running. What she doesn’t expect is to have the feelings she’d thought long gone come back with a vengeance. Sheriff Jake Candellori has regretted letting Sera out of his life every minute of the last two years. He completely overreacted when he felt her feelings wash over him during sex, but that didn’t mean he had to run out like his pants were on fire. By the time he calmed down she was gone. When fate traps them together during a freak snowstorm—he has no intention of ever letting her go again .