Snowfall — Suzanne Cass

Once you pick up this book, it's incredibly difficult to put it down…She's a helpless romantic.He's an enigmatic loner.Surviving the treacherous, mountain wilderness might be the least of their problems.French pastry chef, Stella Pereira has come to Stargazer Ranch to spend a year working as the assistant cook, hoping to sort out her troublesome feelings of restlessness and get back to living her perfect, planned life…until she meets Wyatt.Fresh out of prison—accused of a murder he didn't commit—Wyatt Wilson is trying to get his life back on track. The last thing he needs is more trouble, and he never anticipated rescuing a clueless French girl stuck in a storm.Just as things heat up between them, an acquaintance from Wyatt's prison days comes to visit, bringing trouble in the form of stolen diamonds and a gang of hired hitmen. When Wyatt's boss is murdered, Stella is caught up in the battle for survival, as they're forced to run into the mountains in the dead of winter to evade the murderous gangsters.For Wyatt, protecting the woman he's falling in love with might well be the biggest fight of his life…**Each book in the Stargazer Ranch Series can be read as a STANDALONE.While the characters overlap, each book tells a different, separate story with a happy ever after ending.**