“Surviving the whiteout was the easy part.”
High on a Colorado mountain called Ember Ridge, the cabins are off-grid, the storms come without mercy, and the men who keep the place alive have each sworn never to be responsible for another life again. They live alone on purpose — scarred, silent, and certain that the safest thing they can do for anyone is keep their distance.
Then the blizzards arrive, the grid goes down, and one by one a city woman who came to the mountain to disappear ends up sealed in beside the very man determined not to need her. One mattress. One failing woodstove. One thin wall between survival and something far more dangerous.
Three whiteouts. Three guilt-ridden mountain men. Three women who refuse to be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to them.
Book One — Shelter in the Snow (Clara & Elias)
“One mattress. One failing woodstove. One storm that won’t let them stay strangers.”
Clara Vance came to Ember Ridge to disappear. After her career collapsed in public, a month alone in the most remote cabin on a Colorado mountain sounded like the perfect way to prove she could finally stand on her own two feet.
Then the worst blizzard in a decade takes down the grid, and Cabin Nine — off-grid, drafty, and barely standing — turns into a fight for survival. Elias Thorne, the mountain’s solitary caretaker, won’t let the infuriating, unprepared woman freeze on his watch, even if saving her means being sealed in beside her until the storm breaks.
Because surviving the whiteout was the easy part. Surviving what they feel for each other might cost them everything.
Alternating First Person (Clara & Elias) • HEA
Book Two — Snowbound Hearts (Nora & Gideon)
“She has seven days and a grant deadline. The mountain has other plans.”
Architectural historian Nora Linwood doesn’t have time for the weather. She has a grant deadline, a reputation to rebuild after a betrayal that nearly ended her career, and exactly seven days to survey the oldest cabin on Ember Ridge before her future disappears.
But the storm arrives early and hard, a pine trunk caves in the roof, and suddenly the only thing between Nora and the cold is Gideon Hayes — the broad-shouldered, maddeningly silent man who keeps the mountain running and clearly wants nothing to do with her.
When the thaw comes, Gideon has to decide whether he’s brave enough to be needed — or whether he’ll freeze them both out to keep himself safe.
Alternating First Person (Nora & Gideon) • HEA
Book Three — Winter’s Embrace (Maya & Silas)
“She drove into the wilderness to vanish. He answered the knock anyway.”
Forty-eight hours ago, Maya Rossi ran a nine-figure empire. Then the board needed a scapegoat and handed the press her name. Stripped of her title and the ten-year plan she’d built her whole identity around, she drives into the Colorado wilderness until her phone dies and the road simply ends.
She doesn’t plan to be rescued. Silas Mercer lives at the top of the mountain on purpose — scarred, solitary, and done being responsible for anyone’s life but his own. Then a bloodied hand knocks on his frosted door, and he carries a half-frozen stranger into the one place he never lets anyone go.
Survival makes them allies. The long dark nights make them something neither will name.
Alternating First Person (Maya & Silas) • HEA
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