At the tender age of seventeen Tula "Sugar" Dubois had it all, an up and coming ballroom dance career, and a family she loved deeply. In the blink of an eye she lost it all on a cold, snowy Minnesota bridge. Now, ten years later, Sugar has rebuilt her life, but still hides her heart behind the log walls of her lodge on Lake Superior. Drug Task Force Agent Donovan Walsh follows his most sought after drug lord to Duluth, Minnesota. His plan is simple; protect the key witness to McElevain's destruction and track down the proof he needs to put him away for life. What he wasn't planning on was his...

Tula "Sugar" DuBois has never known love like the one she has found in the arms of her new fiance. As the New Year breaks over the shores of Lake Superior, Sugar has a picture perfect life. That life is about to shattered when the mysterious Lillie enters the frame. Van's sister, Lillie, is on the run from a man determined to cleanse her of her sins. Taking refuge with her brother and Sugar she's convinced she's safe, until the letters start arriving. Sugar and Van must call upon their family to dance a dangerous samba to save the young girl before she is delivered to the Father by evil......

As the fall colors swirl around Lake Superior, Tula "Sugar" Dubois's lodge is bright with new love and new life. She's happy being a wife, aunt and sister until Van unknowingly begins a dance that will lead her back through the darkness of her past. Filled with doubt, Sugar struggles to trust her heart, and Van. On the outside Sugar goes through the motions of daily life, but inside the darkness traps her and she questions her priorities, doubts her convictions and struggles with 'why'. Sinking further into despair Sugar sets out to ink a deal that will change her life. She unexpectedly runs...

When Donovan Walsh comforts his wife with the words, Nil aon suailce gan a duailce fein, there are no unmixed blessings in life, he had no way of knowing how quickly he would live those words. Visiting Ireland, Sugar and Van, stay in a familiar place. A place filled with the ghosts and lies of his past. Stumbling through the deception of his early life Van waltzes dangerously close to losing his future. Will a voice from the past be the one to give him the answers, or will he find them in the blue eyes of his forever love? As the ice melts on Lake Superior, Sugar and Van dance together to...

THIS CAN BE READ AS A STAND ALONE NOVEL. Past... Trey Helton moved to Duluth to work as a prosthetist for the local hospital. Leaving behind a personal tragedy, he knew Duluth would be the place he could make a life and start to heal. Allison Drakos was a college senior ready to graduate from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Going to school and working part-time filled her days, but Allison still found time to enjoy her last year with her sorority sisters, until the unthinkable happened. Present... Christmas Eve is a special day for Trey and Allison Helton. Not only is it the day...