What happens when the troubles you leave behind-along with the winter weather-tag along on your journey like sneaky little stowaways? Whether the women and men in these stories are abandoning the warmth of the south to head into a blizzard or escaping cold and snow to seek solace in desert or tropical paradise, what awaits them is definitely not what they expect. But could it be exactly what they need? Valor Passage - Candace West Only the Ocean Knows - Sara Davison Pause That Thought - Angela D. Meyer Adrift - Deb Elkink L'il Trip to Paradise - Eleanor Bertin The Butterfly Sisters - Stacy Monson Skipping Winter is a collection of six stories about wandering through darkness and finding light in the most surprising of places.