First published 2023
Charles Vincent drives toward his family's Normandy château, trapped in an empty marriage and meaningless job. He falls asleep at the wheel and plunges thirty feet down a rocky cliff. He survives the crash and climbs to safety, bloodied and desperate. In the darkness, he finds a cabin where Aude Saint-Martin tends to his injuries. Their attraction grows as she nurses him back to health. Charles realizes he can simply vanish. His car will be found, and everyone will assume he drowned. He can start fresh with Aude and experience the passion missing from his life. But Aude carries her own secrets. Their pasts eventually surface, putting their new relationship at risk. Charles must choose between the safety of his old existence and the uncertain promise of love with a woman whose history threatens to destroy everything they have built together.
Genres: fiction, drama, romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Normandy
Period: contemporary
Hardcover · MacMillan