Where Frozen Hearts Found Spring

He came home to save a palace he had spent years trying to forget.
She came to restore its walls before anyone noticed how badly her own life had fallen apart.
Rishi Thakur is cold, controlled, and dangerously unreadable. Returning to his family's snowbound palace to transform it into a heritage hotel should have been a practical decision, one he could manage with contracts, schedules, and distance. But the palace holds too much of what he has spent years refusing to face: the shuttered rooms, old grief, and a history that still feels too close to touch.
Siya Malhotra comes to the mountains with a reputation to rebuild. After heartbreak that shattered her confidence in front of the people who were supposed to love her, and nearly derailed her career, this restoration project is more than work. It is her chance to prove that she is still capable, still steady, and not as easy to discard as she has begun to fear.
As Siya fights to preserve the palace's character against budgets, shortcuts, and easy replacements, Rishi is forced to see her differently. What begins with sharp arguments, guarded silences, and a reluctant professional partnership slowly becomes something far more intimate.
Stolen glances across the palace corridors. Conversations that linger too long. Small acts of care disguised as routine. Touches charged with unbearable tension. A desire neither of them knows how to control anymore.
Because beneath Rishi's cold restraint lives a man capable of loving with terrifying intensity.
And beneath Siya's inquisitive softness is a woman learning that being chosen should never require her to become smaller.
As the palace comes back to life, so do they.
And somewhere between emotional scars, aching vulnerability, and chemistry that burns hotter with every passing moment, two frozen hearts find their spring.