Snowed In at the Mountain Cabin

She travels the world for a living. He'd be perfectly happy if the world stayed off his mountain.Travel writer Isabella Monroe has an itinerary, a deadline, and an assignment in Laurel Ridge.What she does not have is a road.A sudden mountain snowstorm strands Bella miles from town, where her only option is Nash Campbell-the gruff local electrician who pulls her SUV out of trouble, criticizes her footwear, and reluctantly gives her shelter in his cabin.For two snowbound days, Bella is trapped with a man who values privacy almost as much as she values the next destination.She talks.He doesn't.She asks questions for a living.He would rather repair an electrical panel in freezing rain than answer most of them.It should be a disaster.Instead, the cabin gets warmer.But snow melts.Roads reopen.And Bella still has a career built around leaving.The real question isn't whether something can happen while they're trapped together.It's whether it can survive when Bella has a hotel room, a working car, a plane ticket, and every opportunity to go.Because Nash has spent years making sure he never needs anyone.And Bella has spent years proving she never needs to stay.Maybe finding home doesn't mean you stop leaving. Maybe it means finally knowing where you want to come back to.This was originally published as Snowed In, part of the A Charm of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it has been rewritten and expanded for Love in Laurel Ridge