Rust and Marrow - Brea Holden

Harper Hayes would rather freeze to death than accept help from Cade Lawson.

She inherited a failing Montana ranch and a mountain of debt the day her father's heart stopped beating. For six years, she has held it together alone - starving herself to feed her cattle, patching fences with frozen hands, refusing every offer from the ruthless land baron next door who wants to swallow her property whole.

Cade Lawson doesn't make offers. He makes inevitabilities. He owns eleven thousand acres, a hundred men, and the patience of a predator who has been circling Harper's boundary for six years, waiting for her stubbornness to break. He tells himself it's business. He tells himself it's strategy. He's been lying since year four.

Then the worst blizzard in a century buries the valley.

Harper's truck dies in a snowdrift. Her body is shutting down. And the only man for miles rides through the whiteout to drag her - screaming, fighting, half-frozen - into his remote hunting cabin.

No power. No radio. No rescue coming.

Twelve days. One room. A fire that keeps dying. A hatred that won't.

Trapped together in a space barely big enough to breathe, their six-year war turns into something far more dangerous. Every shared blanket is a battlefield. Every accidental touch is a detonation. And when the cold forces them skin to skin, the line between survival and surrender disappears completely.

He saved her life. Now he refuses to give it back.

RUST AND MARROW is a scorching enemies-to-lovers dark romance featuring forced proximity, a possessive alpha hero, and heat levels that will melt the snow off your screen. This is Book 1 in the Whiteout Sins series.

Content warning: explicit sexual content, aggressive possession, survival situations, emotional intensity. Intended for readers 18+.