I'm on the run. Desperate and afraid. After breaking free from the gilded cage of my abusive marriage, I have nothing to my name but a letter from a long-lost relative. Come home, Willow. Your family is waiting for you. I sacrificed everything to flee for the tiny town of Briar Valley and its promise of a better life for my young daughter. Hope often takes the unlikeliest of forms, but I didn't expect to find it nestled among the rugged, snow-capped mountains. Nor did I intend to surrender my heart to three tortured mountain men hiding from their own grief in the thick forest of pine trees. Briar Valley offers a home to all lost things, but at what cost? I have to make an impossible choice. Do I spend the rest of my life running from the demons in my past, or should I risk it all in the name of love? From the bestselling author of Blackwood Institute and Sabre Security comes a small-town, why-choose romance featuring a determined single mother running from her past and the three smoking-hot mountain men who give her a new home. It is book one in a duet and ends on a cliffhanger.