Rust and Ransom

"I didn't come to save you. I came because the fire you started was the only thing keeping me warm." Three months is a long time to watch someone. Long enough to learn her secrets, her routines, and the suffocating mask she wears as the mayor's perfect daughter. Holden Cross didn't want Wren Gallagher; he wanted her father's ruin. Taking her was supposed to be a simple, cold transaction—a $400,000 ransom to avenge a stolen ranch and a destroyed family. But a massive, unyielding Montana blizzard traps them together in an isolated mountain cabin, shattering every plan. Wren isn't the fragile political pawn Holden expected. She's brilliant, observant, and carrying dark secrets of her own about her father's corrupt empire. As the freezing days turn into weeks, the strict lines between captor and captive begin to blur. The hostility melts into a dangerous, undeniable attraction, and a fragile alliance is forged in the firelight. When Wren uncovers the devastating truth connecting her father to the tragedy that broke Holden's life, she must make an impossible choice: return to the golden cage of her former life, or burn it all down with the man who stole her away.