Before the snow melts

They say that time blunts everything, and I am stubborn enough to still believe it.

After narrowly escaping a sexual assault and watching my life fall apart at home, my main focus is just to keep moving. I work, save up for my own bakery, and hope that one day my fear of being touched or getting close to men will stop making decisions for me.

Unfortunately, instead of peace and quiet, I end up with another complication.

A part-time job at Tristan Kerrigan's café. He is the man who saw me at the absolute worst moment of my life. A guarded café owner who keeps his distance from people, just as I do from anything that could hurt me again. But something I definitely do not expect soon starts to build between us.

With the arrival of his family and an unexpected trip to Scotland, I realise that this winter is going to be neither peaceful nor simple, and if the past year has taught me anything, it is that disasters always find me.

Only this time, they look a lot more attractive.