She fled with a secret in her arms. He promised he would never let her go. Katarina's only crime was giving birth to a daughter with a cleft lip-a "flaw" her husband, a powerful guildsman, called a curse. The night he declared the child unwanted, Katarina ran, escaping into the frozen wilderness with her newborn, Nada, and nothing but a desperate mother's love... Carrying Hope is a slow-burn historical romance about survival in the wild, the quiet strength of found family, and the lengths we go to protect what-and who-we love. For fans of The Bear and the Nightingale and The Price of Salt, this is a story where love is the most dangerous journey of all.

Lexi Grayson is a normal teenager, as normal as she can be with her unobserving skills and her overthinking mind. But she might need the overthinking if she wants to unravel the smirking mystery that is Blake Eaton.