Snowbound by Janice Johnson

Snowbound is a romantic novel by Janice Johnson. I am not in the habit of reading romance novels but I read it as the Kindle edition was free. In Snowbound Fiona the heroine is a single high school teacher who becomes stranded at a resort with a handful of students she has taken to an academic event. Stranded in the Cascade Mountains, Fiona meets John Fallon, a Iraq war veteran who has been traumatized by an attack that killed a handful of teenage boys he was coaching in soccer.

Over three days, the reader follows how Fiona and John fall in love. Though they are falling in love there is a barrier between them, the unspoken trauma that haunts John and drives him to seek privacy. When Fiona returns to home the two correspond via email and which gives John the courage to do something about his trauma. This quick read ends with the couple announcing their wedding.

As mentioned, I rarely read romances and am therefore no expert on the genre. On the whole I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the novel. The story reminded me how trauma of what a soldier sees in a war zone can continue to haunt him/her and impact how they interact with others. The story also reminded me how patient love can become the catalyst for healing.

You may wonder why was the book free? The publisher has other books for sale and was offering the free book as an introduction.