While the Town Sleeps

In the quiet coastal town of Bluefin Bay, everyone knows two things: you go to Pasta Pulse for the best custom bowls in the county, and you go there to see Katrina. Sweet, helpful, and undeniably the most beautiful girl in town, Katrina is the girl everyone loves-and the one person Brandon knows he should keep at a distance.

Brandon already has the "perfect" life. He has a steady job and a steady girlfriend, Avery. For months, the three of them have maintained a careful, professional balance at the shop-strictly coworkers, strictly platonic, strictly safe.

But in a town of only 2,350 people, the smallest shift in routine can change everything.

The balance shatters one night when Avery calls out sick, leaving Brandon and Katrina to close the shop alone. It was supposed to be a quick exit, but a routine inventory check goes sideways. When the heavy steel door of the walk-in freezer jams, it locks Brandon and Katrina inside the small, frosted room with no one left out front to hear their calls for help.

As the temperature drops, the "just coworkers" walls they've built begin to thaw. Amidst the shivering and the silence, long-buried truths are whispered, and a single night of survival turns into a turning point that could ruin Brandon's relationship, Katrina's reputation, and the peace of Bluefin Bay forever.

In the cold, things get honest. But when the door finally opens, can they ever go back to the way things were?