A chef running the cafeteria for an Antarctic science research facility finds herself caught in a deadly trek across the ice with the one man she couldn't stand after rogue mercenaries try to kill everyone to obtain ice cores holding a deadly virus.

Both thrilling and steamy, this is a delicious forced proximity romance.

I adored the awkward, tall scientist Ford Cooper, who is so afraid of his own feelings he had to run away to the Antarctic to escape them, until he finds Angel Smith who is also a sheer delight. Bonus points to Anders for making frozen sex super hot and the tension between these two fun and also with light-hearted moments, despite being basically on a death race. This reminded me of the X-Files episode Ice, minus the deadly ear worms (and that is high praise from me).

CW for gun violence, on page murder (not of main characters), sleeping bag sexy times.