Fireside Love - Alternate Special Edition Cover

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kristy </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I hated my job. I had no social life. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Somehow I had become so predictable after my last relationship ended that the cashier at the local food mart already had my favorite wine bagged and waiting for me behind the counter when I walked in on Friday afternoon. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I needed to get away from everything. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So when my best friend Addie called up and offered me a FREE weekend getaway how could I say no. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Promises of a quiet weekend with a good book warm fires and flannel pajamas? Yes please! </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Austin</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It had been eighteen months. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eighteen months since I had lost my wife in a car accident and learned that our marriage had been nothing but one big lie. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd done nothing but work and mope around my sister's house so when she told me to take her cabin for the weekend. Time alone surrounded by nature and the fresh cold mountain air was exactly what I'd been needing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However my plans of being alone in the wilderness quickly vanished when I walked through the doors of the cabin and found my sister's best friend drunk and half-naked on the floor of the very same cabin. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd hidden my crush on her for years. Perhaps not well enough. After all Addie must have set this up. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The weekend was about to get a lot more interesting. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From USA Today Bestselling Author S.L. Sterling comes this friends to lovers romance that will warm your heart on a cold winters night.</span></p>