CeCe’s goal: Win the annual Top Birder contest. CeCe’s competition: Some new guy named Al Johnson.

This means war.

CeCe’s new problem: Al Johnson, aka Mac, turns out to be a distraction hot enough to melt the snow.

Winning takes on a whole new—and incredibly sexy—dimension in this steamy story from talented erotic romance author Sophie Mouette.

“A Bird in the Hand” originally appeared in Sexy in Your Stocking: Twelve Erotic Tales for the Holidays (Little Kisses Press, 2014).