I should've turned down my sister's invitation to spend Christmas in Aspen Ridge.

In the heart of the snow-covered Colorado Rockies...

With the even more captivating Stone brothers?three decorated deputy sheriffs who command the mountain county with authority and intensity.

After my fiancé abandoned me at the altar last spring, Christmas alone seemed safer than resurrecting old wounds. But my sister insisted. One month. One quiet holiday to heal.

What could go wrong?

The three men who once made my teenage years complicated have transformed into something far more dangerous?protectors. Powerful. Commanding. Impossible to resist. They're deputies sworn to uphold the law, yet I've become their only weakness.

The moment one corners me at the station on Christmas Eve?all dark intensity and raw magnetism?my carefully constructed walls shatter. Their touch ignites something primal within me. Every whispered promise in the darkness is intoxicating. I want them all more than I fear the consequences.

But consequences always find you...

Three weeks later, the clinic's fluorescent lights blur as I read the results.

"All three men show viable genetic markers," the doctor explains carefully. "The paternity test cannot definitively determine which of the three is the biological father."

How did I let this happen?