The picturesque montain ski lodge is the perfect place to spend winter break...if you have a boyfriend! Otherwise, that cozy leather couch in front of the crackling fire looks a lot less inviting. Good thing that there are lots of cute, blond, sweater-wearing ski instructors around to choose from....

This fun, sweet tale of holiday romance on the slopes is the perfect wintertime read!

I woke up and it was still a soft bluish pink in the room. I looked at the clock.

5:48.

I guess that’s what happens when you go to sleep before ten o’clock.

I tried closing my eyes again but it was pointless. I was wide awake. And famished. All right Levy. Have to make the best of this situation. Start over. Try to be civil to Kathy. Or maybe just ignore her. But first, food.

I crept into the bathroom and splashed some cold water on my face, then dug through my duffel to find my favorite hoodie sweatshirt and grabbed my copy of Catcher in the Rye. It was my favorite book. I had read it about twenty times, but I had finished the other book I bought in Florida and all I had from the airport were trashy magazines about women eating their way to being younger and celebrity couples splitting up. I crept downstairs.

There was already a fire going in the fireplace in the lobby, and there was classical music playing, but I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. I wandered through the lobby area into the dining room. There were about a dozen tables set, and floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides of the room. The sun was coming up over the snow-covered peaks, turning everything the most incredible color. It was somewhere between orange and pink and purple and it made the snow gleam.

Phil came out of a swinging door on the side.

“Whoa! We’ve got an early riser! What can I do for you?”

There were bags under his eyes and the gristle of a new beard growing in, but he still gave a huge smile. His teeth were long and thing, just like the rest of him.

“Oh, I’m fine. I just couldn’t sleep,” I said.

“Well, let me set you up with a cup of coffee, huh? Breakfast will be coming up soon.”

I could hear Mom saying, “Don’t drink coffee. It’ll stunt your growth.”

But I loved the taste of it with just a little whole milk and sugar. Mmm. I was on vacation, right?