He went to the mountains to be alone.

She came to find herself.

A blizzard makes them each other's only choice.

Ex-Navy SEAL sniper Sawyer King built his off-grid cabin with his own hands and walled up his heart even tighter. Haunted by a mission gone wrong, he survives on routine, silence, and the occasional rescue call from the Cedar Springs Mountain Outpost. No attachments. No exceptions.

City girl Brooke Carter is done with toxic love and big-city noise. A solo photography trip is supposed to clear her head-until black ice sends her off an icy mountain road and straight into the arms of a rugged, bearded stranger with glacier-blue eyes and a voice that brooks no argument.

Snowed in. One room. One bed.

What starts as survival burns into obsession neither of them saw coming. Brooke's sunshine warmth slips past Sawyer's defenses, while his quiet strength makes her believe in second chances. But when the storm lifts, old ghosts don't magically vanish. To claim a future, Sawyer must stop running from the past-and Brooke must trust the mountain man who saved her body to safeguard her heart.

Grumpy/sunshine. Forced proximity. Rescue romance. One-bed, snowed-in heat. Insta-lust that deepens into forever. Always a safe, swoony HEA.

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