McKinlee James thought she was about to get her happily ever after. Instead, her romantic getaway ends in heartbreak, and she flees into a Colorado snowstorm with nowhere left to go.

Liam Bennett, a widowed linebacker for the Renegades, is hiding in his mountain cabin after grief cost him his temper and his season. When a blizzard throws a stranger into his path, it traps them together with no power, no way out, and nothing to do but talk.

Two broken people. One storm. And a love neither of them is ready for. Can they heal enough to hold on to each other, or will the pain they carry pull them apart?

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