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Eira Holm has always lived in a world of silence. Hidden behind the gates of her family's sprawling mansion, she spends her days tending to a winter garden that mirrors her own cold beauty - fragile, untouchable, and alone. At twenty-one, she has grown used to the emptiness left by her parents' absence and the distance she maintains from everyone else. To the town, she is a mystery: the pale girl who never leaves, the snow queen locked away in her icy palace.
But her quiet life begins to shift the day a young delivery worker, warm and open-hearted, arrives at her gate. His name is Adrian, and where Eira is winter, he is spring - persistent, kind, and unafraid of her silence. At first, she resists his presence, certain that her solitude is safer than letting anyone close. Yet Adrian keeps returning, each encounter softening the walls she has built around herself.
As the days pass, Eira learns to laugh again, to share pieces of her past, and to imagine a future beyond her empty halls. But love does not come without fear. Haunted by old wounds and the belief that happiness is fleeting, she pushes him away, only to realize that isolation has never truly protected her - it has only kept her from living.