"'Those snowflakes are the sand in our hourglass. Eventually, they’ll stop falling and then our time will be up.'"
Who'd have thought a snowstorm and being snowed in would be a good thing? Especially between two people who are obviously still hung up on each other? Well, Jessica Lemmon did, and I totally agree. This is a wonderful, heartwarming, second chance story.
"How could a man’s hand be sexy? Because it’s attached to the rest of him."
Ever since I got a first glimpse of Chase Ferguson in the first book of this series I was left wondering what would rock his world and mess with his Mayor-of-Dallas, nothing-can-rattle-me composure. He is kind of standoffish, and seems to be a bit cold at the beginning of the book. I am so glad Miriam is able to get to him like no one else.
"Whatever it was, she’d left a mark. An indelible one."
Miriam is a tough girl, with her own career and her own dreams and aspirations. She is stubborn, but she is also loving and kind. And yes, she still remembers Chase, but she has moved on and built a life for herself. Or maybe...
"Beyond attraction, his pull was more like gravity."
So Chase and Miriam met ten years ago during Summer in Montana and they had a Summer love of sorts. Everything was perfect. She didn't know who he was or what his aspirations were, and he wasn't thinking about it either. However, once reality sank in in his home state of Dallas, Miriam was sent home alone and heartbroken.
At first sight, they're nothing alike. The way they try to have something in common, the fact that his family owns an oil company and she's an environmentalist, understanding Chase sent her home for the right reasons but maybe he should just have asked her before... this all weighed on my heart a bit. The flashbacks of what once was were sweet and heartbreaking as well.
"Nothing mattered—not the past or the future—apart from the woman in his arms."
Chase and Miriam can avoid the past, walks down memory lane, and the 'what ifs', but they had it all once, and revisiting the past proves to be just the thing that kickstarts their future into their happily ever after.