After my eighteenth birthday, my gorgeous twenty-one-year-old stepsister, Isabella, invites me on a trip to Aspen. She wants to show me there’s more to adulthood than just music and video games.
When we arrive, the snowy mountains are breathtaking—but nothing prepares me for how close we’ll become. I didn’t expect to share a cozy bed with her—or to fall on top of her while she teaches me how to ski.
During warm evenings by the fireplace, barely dressed and pressed close, we confess feelings we never would have admitted.
And when we go off the grid and get trapped in a cave, there’s only one way to stay warm—skin against skin, sharing body heat.
That’s when I realize … she has far more to teach me than just skiing.
