Snowbound by Janice Kay Johnson
This book was free! So I wasn't expecting much to be honest. But it was better than anticipated. The story starts when a teacher and her students get trapped in a snowstorm and become stranded (snowbound?) at a lodge owned by a veteran semi-recently returned from Iraq. He is, of course, damaged both physically and emotionally by war. Nevertheless, he is able to fall in love with the FMC in the short period of time she is stranded at the lodge. The feeling is mutual and she even returns to stay with him over the Christmas holiday.
But (and here is where things get kind of annoying) she gets pissed off when he won't tell her the terrible things he experienced during the war. I thought she was a jerk for trying to make him relive things that he clearly wasn't ready to deal with yet. So they kind of break it off for awhile. Later he decides he is ready to get some psychiatric help (maybe something a loving girlfriend could have proposed as a solution rather than breaking up with him?) and goes back to her after he is less crazy.
In sum - it was okay, better than I expected but I still thought the FMC was annoying. I am sensing an unpleasant trend. I might need to read some old favorites before the year is over to end on a good note!
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