Winter Cole is twenty years old, freshly released from a five-year prison sentence, and already drowning. The world outside has changed-and so has she has. Hardened, numb, and reckless, she returns to the same streets that raised her, and the same chaos that ruined her. Her past is tattooed on her skin and carved into her mind. Trust feels like a joke. And love? That's for people who haven't seen what she has.
With a heart iced over by trauma and betrayal, Winter slips back into her old hoodlum ways-fast money, cold nights, and fists thrown before words. She doesn't care who she hurts, including herself. She can't feel anything anymore. And that's the way she likes it.
Then she meets him.
He's not like the others-too patient, too calm, Everything about him pisses her off. She wants to hate him. She tries. But the more she pushes him away, the more he shows up-seeing her, really seeing her, in a way no one else ever has.
Coldest Winter is a gritty, emotional journey through pain, rage, and redemption. A story about a broken girl with nothing left to lose, and the one person who refuses to let her slip away. Raw, real, and unapologetically human-this is not your typical love story.