Alaskan Explorer Mikhail Amos can count the number of bad decisions he's made in his life on one hand. But when he's called out on the cusp of winter to track down and rescue a team of lost botanists in the wilds of Alaska, he can't say no. It doesn't matter that every last instinct tells him he won't get the team out before winter. The scientists on the expedition are someone's father and brother. Mikhail knows what it's like to lose both of those, and he'd never wish that loss on another person.

But as Mikhail soon discovers, the team also happens to include the lead scientist's daughter, Bryony Whetherby, whose ability to survive in the wilderness and knack for drawing maps intrigue him in a way no woman ever has before.

But people on the team are carrying secrets, and Mikhail soon isn't sure what holds the most danger, the encroaching Alaskan winter, the secrets between the members, or lowering the walls he's built around his heart. Can love survive when survival itself is uncertain?

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a frontier family saga filled with a rugged explorer, a dangerous journy, and love that heals wounded hearts.