Chapter One
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the more you try to ignore an attractive but unavailable man, the more often you run into him.”
Isabelle Rockwell had a habit of talking to herself while skiing, especially on cross country runs where no one could hear her. And especially on her favorite trail that wended twenty-five miles through the pristine forests surrounding Rocky Peak Lodge. Skiing was her favorite way to work things out in her head; she’d been skiing-and-ranting since she was a little girl.
“Sorry for the rewrite, Jane Austen, but times have changed. Welcome to the twenty-first century. Some things are great here, like medicine and so forth. Thank God I’m a doctor now and not back in your day. But other things have gotten a lot more complicated, such as male
