In the grip of a ruthless Minnesota snowstorm, Eve Engels stumbles through the cold, seeking shelter from more than just the weather. When she collapses in the warmth of a secluded cabin, she doesn’t expect to be found—let alone cherished.
Nine-year-old Joey Prescott sees only beauty and kindness in the mysterious woman asleep by the fire. “She looks like an angel, Pa,” he whispers. “Can we keep her?”
For Sam Prescott, a man carved by hardship and silence, the presence of this stranger awakens something long buried. Her touch, her laughter, her haunted eyes—Eve stirs a longing he thought he’d forgotten. But Sam carries a heavy truth: Joey is half Native, and the world has never been kind to families like theirs.
As passion simmers and barriers begin to fall, Eve must choose between running from her past…or embracing a future wrapped in a love as fierce and untamed as the blizzard that brought her to their door.
Will she stay—and become the angel they both need? Or will the cruel winds of the past steal her away once more?
Jane’s first historical romance, Secrets of a Midnight Moon, was heralded as ‘sensitive and sensuous, violent and tender.’ “I found the plot to my first novel in a little-known history of Northern California Indians when I learned that Native Americans were being taken as slaves by the settlers, their families threatened with death and dismemberment if they tried to leave. Yes, one can weave a romance around such an appalling event!” Since then, she has published thirteen full-length novels and four anthologies, all dealing with the perils and passions of romantic historical fiction.
She graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in American and Russian History revealing that, “while all of my stories are set in the US, I had hoped one day to set one in Russia, though in my opinion, the best ones have already been written.”
Jane continues to write and also edits for Melange Books, LLC. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Richard Noer.