The Toy King

Valente Correa has a simple assignment over the holidays: take his brother's fiancée, Kessina Macias, through the Andes and deliver her safely. He is a member of the House of Correa, a family that runs a toy-running business, and he treats the job as routine.

Then a snowstorm traps the two of them together for two nights. Kessina lives under the tight control of an overprotective father, and she is drawn to Val, not to the brother she is supposed to marry. Forced into close quarters, the attraction between them turns into something neither can step away from.

Val faces a hard choice. One stolen holiday with Kessina would mean betraying both his brother and his father, and the fallout would reach the whole family. Against that stands his duty to his house and the thing he actually wants.

This is a steamy contemporary holiday romance, and the second book in the Toy Runners series by Adriana Herrera. The setup is forbidden attraction in a confined winter setting, with a family loyalty conflict driving the tension. The romance centers Latine leads and leans toward a happy ending.