When Liv Sinclair flees in the dead of night with her twin boys and nothing but a bruised face and a tattered plan, she isn’t chasing a dream—she’s running from a nightmare. Landing in the remote mountain town of McCall, Idaho, with little more than hope and a nearly empty tank, Liv is desperate for a safe place to start over.

What she doesn’t expect is the gruff, guarded firefighter in the neighboring cabin.

Derrick Callahan is a man who’s buried his past in silence and sawdust, hiding from the ghosts of a life lost too soon. The last thing he wants is a fragile woman with haunted eyes and two curious boys upending his hard-won solitude. But when a storm takes down part of her cabin—and the walls around his heart—Derrick finds himself stepping in to help more than just with repairs.

As danger from Liv’s past begins to creep closer, what started as cautious kindness becomes something neither of them expected: trust, healing, and a chance at something real. But love built on broken foundations is never simple—and facing the future means finally confronting what they’ve both been running from.