Top chef Katrina Sherrer should have left Marc Johansen out in the cold. That's where she is headed if she can't change his mind. The All-Star defenseman is determined to buy the family-owned Acadia Restaurant and Inn and tear it down. But the gods of blizzards and power outages have other ideas—they want to have fun. They strand Marc at the inn and Katrina in his room. Cognac, fireplaces, cold showers, wrong medication, and scones need to work their magic to prove that Marc can be more than Katrina's arch-enemy and business is not all about money.

Franca Pelaccia lives in Toronto, Canada, where by day she teaches and by night she writes. Under the pseudonym of Kirsten Paul, Franca has written two romantic comedies, entitled The Hockey Player & the Angel and The Detective & the Burglar. She had also written an action/adventure/mystery novel entitled Moses & Mac, which is the first book of the Vatican Archaeological Service series and soon to be published. The second book is tentatively entitled Mac & the Crusaders. Writing as Francesca Pelaccia, Franca self-published The Witch’s Salvation, a historical paranormal novel, which won the Beck Valley Reviewers’ Choice Award for 2013. An avid reader, Franca reviews novels for the Historical Novels Society.

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