Northwind

When her sister Shannon was killed in a sudden and tragic accident Courtney rushed to the North Dakota ranch to help the grieving family. Shannon and her husband Adam were living in a large historic ranch house named <i>Northwind.</i> The US Government had bought the property and built a nuclear missile storage site on it. With the Cold War over the government assigned Adam the task of dismantling the site. Their four-year-old daughter Megan loved to ride horseback with her mother and couldn't understand why her mother didn't come home from her recent ride.</p><p>From her upstairs bedroom window at <i>Northwind</i> Courtney could see the small stone house in the distance. The town gossips described the handsome dark man who lived there as a wife-beater with a mysterious violent past and advised Courtney to stay away from him. Her life took a desperate turn when she found herself falling deeply in love with him.</p>