Those Who Came Before: a Sweet and Steamy Holiday Romance About Healing and Second Chances

“I want meaningful. He wants meaningless. He desires to stay well away from loves steep cliff, I’m still nose-diving over its edge for my ex-boyfriend. If ever there were two people who wouldn’t work, it’s us.”Ophelia Jones thought her first love would be her last. As she enters the holidays, it’s with a bruised and battle-scared heart. Yet even with the pain, she thinks falling in love, and experiencing love, is worth it. Her only problem – she doesn’t think she’ll ever fall in love again. …Until she meets Adrian Wilde, her best friends notoriously closed-off brother.Adrian Wilde isn’t just someone to be warned against – he’s someone who has sworn off ever falling in love. Gorgeous, protective, and surprisingly soft-hearted, Adrian wears scars of his own and keeps his heart firmly locked away. But Ophelia can see beneath those scars, and she might just be the first girl capable of bringing him to his knees.As the two spend the holidays together in Adrian’s family lodge, they find it all too easy opening up to one another. But as their hearts start opening up with them, can they find the courage to move on?