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After losing everything in a single day - her job, her home, and the last illusion of love - Michelle Reynolds finds herself numb, broke, and alone. When a last-minute live-in nanny position opens in a secluded estate owned by the Blackwood family, she takes it. Not out of hope. Out of necessity.
She doesn't expect the silence.
She doesn't expect the secrets.
And she definitely doesn't expect him.
Dominic Blackwood is a man sculpted by grief and chained to duty - a widower in name only, father to a daughter who hasn't spoken to anyone in months, and too cold to care about anyone new.
Michelle is not here to fix him. She's here to survive.
But silence can be intimate.
And distance isn't always enough.
As days pass and quiet moments turn to glances, then to words, a question rises in the spaces between them:
What happens when two broken people stop pretending they're fine?
A slow-burn romance of grief, guarded hearts, and the impossible softness of learning to trust again.