A grumpy protector. A fiercely independent woman. One snowy Christmas neither of them expected.
Hope is perfectly capable of looking after herself. She's organised the town's Christmas fair for years, she's got a career she loves, and she certainly doesn't need a six-foot-something, ridiculously handsome Protector growling every time another man gets too close. Matthew has other ideas. He's grumpy. He's protective. He's a panther shifter with instincts that don't always listen to reason.