Colorado Rescue by Caridad Piñeiro

Author:Caridad Piñeiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-02-03T20:59:41+00:00

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 1

Snow hid a lot of things, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Ryder Stewart mused as he watched the wrecker back up to the white, box-shaped clump near the top of Dixon Pass. Christy O’Brien, a sturdy blonde with chin-length hair beneath a bright red knit beanie, stopped the wrecker a few inches from the snow clump, climbed out and brushed at the flakes with a gloved hand, revealing the bumper of a brown delivery truck. She knelt and hooked chains underneath the truck, then gave Ryder a thumbs-up. “Ready to go.”

Ryder glanced behind him at the barrier he’d set up over the highway, and the Road Closed sign just beyond it. Ahead of Ryder, a cascade of snow flowed over the pavement, part of the avalanche that had trapped the truck. “You’re clear,” he said.

Slowly, Christy eased the wrecker forward. With a sound like two pieces of foam rubbing together, the delivery truck emerged from its icy cocoon. When the truck was fully on the pavement, the wrecker stopped. The door to the delivery truck slid open, clumps of snow hitting the pavement with a muffled floof. “Took you long enough!” Alton Reed grinned as he said the words and brushed snow from the shoulders of his brown jacket.

“How many times is this, Alton?” Ryder asked, looking the driver up and down.

“First one this year—fourth overall.” Alton surveyed the truck. “Got buried pretty deep this time. I’m thinking it’s going to be a bad year for avalanches.”

“The weather guessers say it’s going to be a bad snow year.” Ryder studied the pewter sky, heavy clouds like dirty cotton sitting low on the horizon. “This is the second time this week we’ve had to close the highway. Might not open again for a few days if the weather keeps up.”

“You people ought to be used to it,” Alton said. “It happens often enough. Though I can’t say I’d care for being cut off from the rest of the world that way.”

“Only four days last winter,” Ryder said.

“And what—three weeks the year before that?”

“Three years ago, but yeah.” Ryder shrugged. “The price we pay for living in paradise.” That was how most people who lived there thought of Eagle Mountain, anyway—a small town in a gorgeous setting that outsiders flocked to every summer and fall. The fact that there was only one way in and out of the town, and that way was sometimes blocked by avalanches in the winter, only added to the appeal for some.

“Guess I’ll have to find a place in town to stay until the weather clears,” Alton said, eyeing the cascade of snow that spilled across the highway in front of them.

“You ever think of asking for a different route?” Ryder asked. “One that isn’t so avalanche prone?”

“Nah.” Alton climbed back into his van. “After the first scare, it’s kind of an adrenaline rush, once you realize you’re going to be okay.

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