Hot winter nights

Molly Malone manages the office at Hunt Investigations, and this Christmas she is handed a case involving a bad Santa. She welcomes it. Since a night spent at the home of her secret crush, Lucas Knight, she has been plagued by fantasies, and she wants a distraction.

Nothing actually happened that night, though Lucas does not know that. He had mixed whiskey with pain medication for bullet wounds that were almost healed, and now he cannot remember a thing. He is left believing he had a passionate encounter with the hottest, smartest, strongest woman he has ever met.

Her first case comes with a complication. Lucas has been assigned to keep watch over her, and Molly would be furious if she found out. A second danger hangs over both of them: Molly's brother, Joe, would not take well to news of the two of them together, and Lucas could end up shot again.

This is a workplace romance with a comic tone and a Christmas setting. It leans on a misunderstanding between two colleagues, a slow thaw in a guarded man, and a case that keeps them in each other's company.