About the book

It turns out a man can absolutely flirt his way into your life using sarcasm, a deck of cards, and a stuffed shark.

When James O'Malley shows up half-frozen on her mountain road in the middle of a blizzard, Sara Katsaros makes a choice that unravels her carefully crafted world: she pulls over. She tells herself it’s just humanity, that while she might despise him for his role in stifling his sister Daisy’s independence for so many years, she can’t leave him to die.

Stuck with him while the snow piles up outside, Sara discovers that James isn't the arrogant jerk she's built him up to be in her mind. He's funny. Thoughtful. Dangerously easy to want. And genuinely remorseful for not speaking up for his sister sooner. The longer he stays, the more impossible it becomes for her to remember all the reasons she should keep him at arm’s length.

Then a killer starts hunting in Pine Ridge. And when James disappears, taken by the same person behind the murders, what is left of Sara's carefully constructed walls shatters. She'd learned to be okay alone, but losing him terrifies her in ways solitude never could. Now she has to fight to bring him back alive.

And she refuses to consider any other option.