The Ice Hasn't Decided

She came to sign the papers. He lit the stove anyway.

Eighteen years after leaving the eastern lake country, a Helsinki professional drives back to her late grandmothers red cottage with a developers offer in her passenger seat and a plan to be home by Saturday night. Instead she walks into a warm kitchen, a pot of soup on the stove, and Tuomas Aalto, the boatbuilder she left behind on the dock when they were nineteen.

With the lake one cold night from freezing, the sauna fired up, and a house full of her grandmothers things, every reason to sell starts to feel like a reason to stay. As the ice thickens and the weekend deadline closes in, old wounds, unspoken promises and a slow-burning second chance come to a head. Some things you can only decide when the ice does.

A steamy, atmospheric second-chance romance set in the Finnish lake country, for readers who love small-town settings, slow burn, and a hero who shows his love with his hands. Contains explicit scenes.