He came to Granite Peak to disappear. She became the one thing he can’t walk away from. Caleb Hale was a decorated K-9 handler, until a single mistake cost him everything. Now he lives by a code of silence and solitude, his only partner a fiercely loyal Dutch Shepherd. But when his dog is critically injured, Caleb has no choice but to turn to the town vet, Dr. Madison Hayes. Madison is all sunshine and stubborn compassion, the last woman a man like Caleb should let past his defenses. But when the cartel Caleb once crossed tracks him down, Madison becomes their target. A deadly storm drives them into his mountain cabin, where the danger outside is matched only by the fire building between them. He’s sworn to protect her. She’s determined to break through his walls. But as the killers close in, the real battle will be choosing between his badge and his heart.

She called for help. The man who answered is the one who once broke her heart. When single mom Sarah Jenkins dials 911 in terror, she never expects the voice on the other end to belong to Logan Carter, the high school sweetheart who vanished from her life fifteen years ago. Now he is a rugged K-9 cop with a haunted stare and a past he refuses to talk about. Her son has witnessed something horrifying, and the danger stalking them is far more personal than Sarah realizes. Logan has spent years running from the ghosts that drove him out of Granite Peak. Protecting people is the only thing he trusts himself to do, but protecting Sarah and her boy hits a place inside him he thought was long dead. When a brutal blizzard forces them into lockdown in his remote mountain cabin, the walls he has built around his heart begin to crack. The man hunting them is not a stranger. He is a nightmare from Logan’s own past, and Sarah and her son are the perfect bait. Snowed in, cut off from the world, and surrounded by a wilderness that hides every threat, Logan and Sarah are forced to confront the truth they have both been avoiding. He is the only man who can save them, but trusting him might cost Sarah the one thing she has left to protect. He believes he is her shield. She fears he may be the very reason the danger has found them. In a storm with no way out and an enemy who knows every move they will make, Logan and Sarah must decide if their fragile second chance at love is worth the deadly cost. A pulse-pounding romantic thriller filled with danger, redemption, and a fierce second chance at love in a town where secrets never stay buried.