Season Washington used to be a pretty, confident, and strong woman until she met her fiancé, Coleman Caldwell. The man who started out as a handsome, rich tv star soon turned to a down-and-out, manipulative, and abusive loser. Fed up, Season escapes him one night, fleeing back to her hometown of Cherry Oak Bay. Little does she know, there is a sexy, thuggish savior that will soon touchdown and put the pieces of her severed self-esteem back together. Ezra Black despises his small hometown of Cherry Oak Bay, which is why he moved away years ago to Los Angeles. However, the sudden death of his father brings him back home just before Christmas. When he learns his immediate flight back out has been canceled due to a heavy snowstorm, he has no choice but to stick around until all is clear. Having nowhere to go, he is forced to take shelter at Season’s family-owned lodge, where he soon finds himself compelled to protect the broken and fragile beauty. Will the two create a romance built to last for many more Christmas’s to come? Or will Ezra’s playboy lifestyle and Seasons’ shattered interior tear them apart? This is a standalone novella. These are all new characters and nothing needs to be read prior. *Trigger The prologue of this book does show a slap. If you’d rather not read that, skip straight to chapter one.*