This Long Winter Past — Jeanne Stephens

After watching the disintegration of parents' marriage, Liann McDowell had vowed never to fall in love with a cop, but Cody Wakefield seemed all too able change her mind.

They were thrown together by a local murder trial, Liann as the prosecutor and Cody as the investigating officer, but he didn't seem content to let their relationship stop at business. Cody wanted to get to know her on the most personal level of all, and when she finally gave in to her own desires, she realized that the long chill of winter was over at last.