Frost for Words

CAMILLE

I've sold eleven million spicy romance novels. Women write to tell me that I know their bodies better than their husbands do.

Here's what they don't know. I've been faking it for fourteen years.

My ex-husband won a very big prize for a novel about that. I owe my publisher six hundred thousand dollars and a book I can't write. So I've rented half a bunkhouse at the bottom of a ski hill in Montana, where nobody's ever heard of me, to read my sex scenes out loud at three in the morning and find out where they went wrong.

The wall's a quarter inch thick. The man on the other side has started giving notes.

He needs a date for his ex's wedding. I need a body. Every scene that I can't write, we go and act out. It's only research. I've put it in a contract.

Feelings: there will be none. He signed it on a goose.

COLTON

I'm a ski patroller. I find people under the snow. I've got a dog who's better at it than I am, and I've never in my life stopped talking.

Everybody thinks that's charm. I've got a whole town that's real sorry for me, and a very funny story for every one of them.

Then this woman moves in next door. She's the meanest person in Montana. She corrected my grammar on an open radio channel, in front of the Forest Service. She tells me where to put my hands, and she takes notes.

She's the first person who ever looked at me and asked me a real question.

I've got one thing that I've never told anyone. I'm starting to think that I might tell her.

She's got a pen. I should probably be more careful.

This is the second book in The Frost Hollow Series. Reading order:

Frost Cause.

Frost for Words.

Frost Without You.