He doesn’t speak. He doesn’t let go.She wasn’t supposed to survive the crash.
Eden Hartley fled everything — her name, her city, and the charming man who spent three years dismantling her mind with words. When her car plunges off a frozen Montana highway, she wakes in a remote cabin belonging to a man who hasn’t spoken a single word in five years.
His name is Vane. He is scarred. He is silent. And he has already decided she belongs to him.
Vane doesn’t charm. He doesn’t explain. He locks the doors, controls the fire, and watches her with a predatory stillness that should terrify her. He leaves handwritten notes instead of speaking. He feeds her from his hand when she refuses to eat. He blocks the doorway with his body when she tries to leave.
Eden knows what a cage looks like — she survived one before. But this cage is different. The man who built it cannot lie, because he cannot speak. His brutality is honest. His silence is the first safe thing she has heard in years.
As the blizzard seals them in together, the line between captor and protector begins to blur. And when the snow finally melts and her past arrives at the cabin door, Eden will face the one question she never expected to answer:
What happens when the most dangerous place in the world is the only place you feel safe?
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WINTER SKIN is a full-length standalone dark romance (~66,000 words) featuring a mute, scarred, morally gray alpha hero and a heroine who chooses her own monster. This book contains mature themes including captivity, psychological manipulation (past), obsessive/possessive behavior, explicit intimacy, and violence. Intended for readers 18+.
