The last place Kaylie Fletcher wants to be is Alaska, but her family has been lost while climbing Mount McKinley. When she gets a strange call, saying her mother is alive, she has no choice but to leave her senior accounting job in Seattle for the harshness of Alaska.

Kaylie lands at the airport. Instead of meeting her best friend Sara as she steps from the plane, it is Cort McCaine. Here is a man used to pushing the limits and getting his way. And just like her parents, he is a thrill seeker until death claims them. Cort's the last man she wants to feel sexual attraction for.

The feeling is mutual. Cort feels that no woman from 'below the 48' belongs in the severe northern Alaska territory. He sees her jewelry accessories and fine clothes as values like his ex-wife, and look what a disaster that turned out to be. Knowing it is so wrong doesn't stop him from appreciating her feminine curves against his better judgment.

Before Cort can leave her at the airport for other transportation, Kaylie checks her voice mail. There's a hysterical message from Sara. They fly through near blizzard like conditions only to find Sara and Jackson, her husband and Cort's good friend, brutally murdered. The wounds inflicted upon them indicate a crime of passion by a deranged killer.

They return to Cort's place. With the aftermath of witnessing the scene, she leans into Cort's magnetism, and they have sex. Once was enough to let her know that he could easily become a habit she doesn't want to form. Once isn't enough to banish the nightmares coming from the anniversary of his parents tragic death in an accident that nearly took his life. Kaylie is great for sex, but that's it.

The next day they return to the cabin with the police only to find that all evidence of any crime being committed has been cleaned up. The cabin is spotless. Without the bodies the law won't help. Kaylie is determined to find her best friend's murderer even if she has to put her life on the line, which is exactly what the killer wants. If the weather doesn't kill them, then the killer will.

Stephanie Rowe's, ICE, is a romantic suspense that will keep you up at night turning those pages. Just when you think the stakes of life and death couldn't be any higher, she does it.