The Mountain Man

Tom only made the four-hour drive from his remote Yukon claim to Keno City once a year, and this year he only stopped at the mercantile long enough to load up some fresh supplies before he once more embarking on that seven hour race against Winter to get back home. The good news was, he made it back to his cabin just before the storm of the century touched down, pretty much guaranteeing he'd be snowbound for the next six months. The bad news was, there was a woman tucked into the back of his trailer, right between the coffee and the canned peaches, and Tom was pretty sure she hadn't been on the shopping list. Blonde hair, blue eyes, too much spirit and not enough sense, Nora was everything a placer miner did NOT need complicating his life. Tom had six months before the snow melted, and then he could drive her back to town and find someone else's doorstep to dump her on...Six months to take feisty Nora in hand...That is, if his hand didn't tire out first