Maya came home with a finalized divorce, a bruised sense of pride, and no desire to spend Christmas explaining where her marriage went wrong. So instead of forcing herself through another familiar holiday, she escapes to Evergreen Ridge Retreat in snowy Pinehaven, Colorado, determined to be alone. Then she meets Caleb. Quiet, capable, and far more perceptive than Maya wants him to be, Caleb has his own reasons for treating second chances carefully. What begins with shared meals and winter outings slowly becomes the kind of connection Maya thought she had lost the right to trust. Sleigh rides, hot springs, quiet evenings, and a mountain town glowing for Christmas make it easy to forget that both of them arrived carrying histories they would rather not revisit. But attraction is simple compared with honesty. Maya is still learning who she is outside a broken marriage, while Caleb's past has taught him how quickly a life can unravel and how hard it is to build one again. The closer they become, the more impossible it is to pretend their holiday escape has no consequences. Christmas was supposed to give Maya room to breathe. Instead, it may ask her to risk the one thing she came to Pinehaven to protect: her heart.
Maya came home with a finalized divorce, a bruised sense of pride, and no desire to spend Christmas explaining where her marriage went wrong. So instead of forcing herself through another familiar holiday, she escapes to Evergreen Ridge Retreat in snowy Pinehaven, Colorado, determined to be alone...