Blizzard - The Kingston Tales, #8

Widow and mother, Michelle Lindgren, clips a mysterious stranger with her vehicle during a blizzard of epic proportions. Weather impaired first responders are unable to assist the unconscious man. As the only medical help around, Michelle brings the wounded man into her home. To her surprise, the worst of the damage done to him was not by her vehicle, but by a gunshot.
Alessandro Giancarlo is delirious with fever. Fleeing from his Mafia family, he struggles through a frozen hell and tries to stay alive. While bound and beaten by his family in a cellar, he begged the gods to grant him his freedom and to allow him to experience that elusive thing poets wax about and heroes do extraordinary things for. He wants to love a beautiful woman and be loved in return. After that, he can die a fulfilled man. He awakens to find a beautiful angel tending to him. Assuming the persona of a remorseful gangster named Alex, he lures Michelle into an affair for it is her gentle ministrations that warm his cold soul and makes him feel that elusive thing called loved.
Derek Jorgenson is a hunter of men. Employed by the FBI Financial Crimes Division, he is seeking Alessandro, known to be a vicious psychotic assassin, and tracks him to Michelle's refuge. After interviewing the beautiful mother of two young boys, he knows the brilliant Alessandro has used her unmercifully to elude his vengeful family. To his dismay, Derek falls in love with the girlfriend of a mobster.
Michelle finds herself torn between the two alpha men and their respective organizations. She is caught up in elaborate plots and double-crosses. With hers and her children's lives on the line, can she replace the love she lost when her husband died or will death overtake her because of her efforts to free Alex from his criminal past?