Say Yule Stay

Arriving to a wall of canceled flights home from her friend’s wedding, Lily rents a car to make it back before the winter solstice. But as the snow begins to fall, she uses a navigation spell to divine a faster way, taking her on a desolate mountain road and away from the highway. A glance away from the road proves to be a mistake as she comes upon a downed tree. Unable to stop fast enough, she hits it with her car and ends up in a ditch. As the snow piles up, she doesn’t know if she will make it home. Using your magic to keep warm only goes so far when it depletes your energy, and she soon falls asleep, hoping someone might find her before she freezes to death.

Elsewhere, Cade, a werewolf, anxiously awaits his mate’s arrival home after a week away for work. Having already cleaned the cabin from top to bottom, he decides to go for a run in the snow to take the edge off. On his run, he comes across a downed tree and a crashed car with a pretty woman inside, seemingly dead. Breaking into the car and finding she still had a pulse, he gets the woman out and takes her back to his cabin to warm her up and hopefully save her.

Ending his week away from his mate, Thane, a demon, returns home to find Cade making dinner. In the middle of their passionate greeting, Thane sees a witch coming aggressively at him and his mate. Thane attacks the witch, pinning her to the wall by the throat and threatening to devour her heart.

While Cade quickly reassures him that Lily isn’t a threat, as Cade and her develop a rapport, Thane’s not so sure. Things take a turn when Cade scents Lily’s ovulation, and it drives him to want her. Confessing his feelings to Thane only makes things worse. Thane is quick to assert his claim on his mate and remind Lily she has no place there with them. But when Cade discovers his mate is just as attracted to the witch—despite Thane’s irritation over her presence in their home—things get complex.

As things turn physical between the three of them, mixed feelings result. Cade, isolated in a mountain cabin, comes to realize just how lonely he’s been with Thane away so often and doesn’t necessarily want Lily to leave once the snowstorm ends. Thane begins to recognize cracks in his own relationship as he grows to care for Lily. Meanwhile, Lily deals with her developing feelings for the pair of mates and believes that Cade and Thane have too much love in their hearts for each other to have room for her, too.

With the end of the snowstorm, will Lily return home for good, or will she stay in the one place where she finally feels like she belongs?