mayprud
After a summer that took everything from him, Neil isn't looking for love-only quiet, stability, and a way to breathe without remembering what hurt. Healing, he believes, should be orderly and predictable.
Jaanki is none of that.
Practical, warm, and quietly persistent, she enters his life without drama and without promises, forcing Neil to confront what he's been carefully avoiding, that moving on doesn't mean forgetting, and loving again doesn't mean betrayal.
Tender Winter is a story of denial giving way to acceptance, of grief softening into trust, and of two people finding something steady and real-when they finally stop running from it.