Melynda falls for a lowly ranch hand whose steel-blue eyes seem able to "look clean through to the bone."
~ turns out ... they can.
~ not exactly the "drifter" she thinks he is, though.

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To Touch Ice is a different kind of love story.
~A story about the deepening of lover-bonds.
~Written for the reader who likes an extremely intuitive, virile, matter-of-fact, yet mysterious, sort of hero. --With a bit of 'odd' for good measure. And a rush-off-into-the-unknown, somewhat metaphysical, kind of sappy romance fantasy.

Setting: is roughly 1900-ish.

Language: is 'polite,' even when subject matter is not, with descriptive emphasis focused more on emotion than body parts -- making love-scene details more implied than graphic.

212 text pages ... roughly 77,500 words