To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.

Fate brings them together and violence forges their circumstance, but can love save them? In the early 1800s, even those born to privilege are not immune to the violence of the time. The only thing they have in common is they both have lost everything, and they will need each other to survive. His mind, body, and spirit, hardened by tragedy, Rud knows only isolation and violence. Then she comes into his life. Her love and gentle touch breaks his isolation and quiet his troubled soul. Her strength and determination give him an equal partner who, for the first time, allows him to trust and depend on someone other than himself.

When the small plane she is taking to an exclusive resort crashes, socialite Stephanie is faced with the stark realities of having to survive in the Alaskan wilderness. Through the eyes of the only other survivor, she sees herself as others see her and vows to change. Through the difficulties she must face, Stephanie finds her true self and becomes a strong and powerful partner in their survival. If the woman she is now can survive and reach civilization, maybe she will find the love and the life she only now realizes she needs. Beautiful cover by @MuniWilliams