Chapter 1
Just between you and me, I actually like winter. It's my favorite season of the year.
I know, it's not popular to say that. And don't say it because I used to play hockey. The hockey I had played was all indoors. It didn't matter what the weather was like outside. I skated when it was over ninety degrees outside, and I skated when it was thirty below zero. Inside the rink, it was all the same.
But for me, there was nothing better than coming out of the locker room after an afternoon on the climate-controlled ice into a world filled with gently falling snow. The way it brushed against my cold-chapped cheeks was like a fairy's kiss.
But when it's just the cold and the wind and no snow? I admit even I find it less than thrilling. And that's what we had had lately, cold wind and
