PROLOGUE
Year 2029
A devastating natural tragedy erased everything Sunshine Reyes once called home—her family, her future, the life she knew.
Out of millions, she became one of the few survivors.
Branded as a displaced survivor, someone left alive with nowhere and no one to return to—Sunshine abandons the remnants of her old life and disappears into the cold silence of Norway.
Not to begin again. But simply to continue existing.
In the isolated town of Vinterdal, she spends five years drifting through life like a ghost beneath the northern skies, carrying grief too heavy to bury and a loneliness no passing season could soften.
Then she meets Aleksander Bjørnsen.
A divorced Norwegian man who buried himself in isolation after a failed marriage left him colder than the endless winters surrounding him. Quiet. Detached. Unreachable.
Two broken souls. One waiting to disappear. One is already lost in himself.
All changes the night Aleksander’s life is saved by the very woman who no longer wishes to save her own.
And for the first time in years, something inside him awakens.
An obsession. A need. A reason to search.
And Aleksander knows only one thing: He will find her.
No matter how long it takes.
Because in Vinterdal, Norway, love does not arrive gently.
It arrives like winter—silent, ruthless, and impossible to escape.
