Macomber, Debbie  
  
  
    Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants
 Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks
 as she becomes a valued part of the local community
 falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man
 in particular
 stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon
 a quiet
 intense sword craftsman
 whose very existence forces her to question whether her heart wants to return to Washington at all--or make Alaska her home.