Winter Mountain(Book One of The Winters Series) Winter Mountain is a beautiful romance with in depth characters, and a thrilling, action aspect to it. Alease Taynes cannot walk into a room unnoticed. Her stunning beauty has become a dangerous obstacle to her ability to feel safe. Alone and untrusting, she flees her old life in New York and moves to the remote little town of Big Sky Montana, in the hopes of freeing herself from the past and fading into the background. Fate, however, has other plans, and sends her directly in the path of the one man who can reach into her soul and slip through all her defenses regardless of her battle to keep him at a distance. When love & passion collide with the very thing that caused her to run in the first place, Alease must face her ultimate challenges without allowing harm to come to the man who has won her heart forever... Cal Winters, the gorgeous Navy SEAL, has lost his faith in love and marriage. Convincing himself that his SEAL team friends, and his sister with her son, are enough family for him, he resigns himself to a solitary life on his mountain ridge home...until he meets Alease. In one instant, his whole world changed. With his love for her deeper than he ever thought possible, Cal finds himself in uncharted territory as he struggles with how to handle the mystery beauty who seems determined to keep him at a distance. He must use all his resources to gain her trust, win her heart and ultimately save her from the very dangerous situation that is about to overtake her. When the evils from both their pasts swirl together and threaten the life of the woman he has vowed to protect, Cal must race into action to save her.