Wilderness guide Mitch Gallagher was hard as iron. Gruff as granite. A loner to the bone. Yet fragile, fiercely maternal Perrie Matheson and her young son needed refuge from her ex and from the Wyoming winter. And Mitch's cabin was straight ahead...

Mitch reluctantly offered sanctuary and nursed delicate Perrie to health, and soon Perrie's honeyed heat sparked a hunger in Mitch's soul. Stole his rusty, unused heart and made his broad shoulders ache to shelter mom and mite forever. But dare a lone wolf warm himself by a family fire?