I accidentally fell for my best friend’s brother… while rehabbing his career-ending injury.
I’m supposed to be his physical therapist, not the woman memorizing the sound of his laugh.
Jaxon Reed is off-limits, broken, and temporarily hiding out in my world—four hours away from the life he used to live.
He’s famous. I’m a single mom. This was never supposed to be personal.
Then we’re trapped together by snow, proximity, and a healing schedule neither of us can escape.
Late nights turn into quiet conversations.
Professional boundaries blur into lingering looks.
My daughter adores him before I can stop it.
I tell myself it’s temporary.
He tells himself he’s just passing through.
Somewhere between progress reports and porch conversations, I fall anyway.
Right before his past crashes back in—beautiful, polished, and ready to take him home.
Because if he chooses the life he used to live…I lose more than my heart.
One unexpected storm, and one completely off-limits boss…and I’m right in the middle of it.
Taking this temporary assignment in Evergreen Falls was supposed to be a fresh start—for me and my daughter.
Instead, I drive straight into a thunderstorm, my car breaks down on a remote gravel road, and the first person I meet is Andrew Langley—my new boss and the grumpiest man I’ve ever encountered.
He’s powerful, guarded, and impossible to read. And thanks to a weather-induced power outage, we’re suddenly stuck in the same cabin. With only one bed. And a whole lot of tension.
He doesn’t do small talk, and I don’t do cold shoulders. But the more time we spend together—over candlelit dinners, quiet lakeside mornings, and laughter sparked by my daughter’s crayons—the more I see cracks in his walls.
He’s off-limits. Untouchable. But every glance, every almost-touch, makes me wonder… what if the life I never dared to imagine is starting right here?
Even the iciest hearts can thaw. And sometimes love shows up in the middle of a storm- melting his walls, unraveling my guard, and making me fall just as hard.
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Sophie Toovey 