Two people find love in the embers of their painful pasts in this slow-burn romance from Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw.

For me, family is a curse. My father and brother made my life hell. My mother's untimely death still keeps me up at night. Now that my brother, Donovan, has been killed in an accident, I can forget the past.

The last remnant is the childhood home I've inherited--and which I intend to burn to the ground. The only obstacle? Anneliese Nielsen, Donovan's fiancée.

Donovan left her destitute, and selling this run-down house is her only chance to recoup her losses. I shouldn't care, but...maybe it's her eyes when she sees me. I look strikingly like my brother, a man she loved despite everything.

So we strike a deal. We'll renovate the house together, but she'll have to convince me to sell--or up in flames it goes.

But the more time we spend in the house, the more its terrible history threatens to come out.

And even more dangerous, the harder I start to fall for Anneliese.

Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw is a bona fide daydream believer. She lives somewhere in the middle of the USA and is rarely seen without her notebook and laptop. When she's not writing, she's thinking about writing. And when she's not thinking about writing, she's living the American dream with her husband, three kids, the laziest puggle this side of the Mississippi, and a busy pug pup that officially owes her three pairs of shoes, one lamp cord, and an office chair.

Renshaw also writes psychological and domestic suspense under her Minka Kent pseudonym. Her first book, The Memory Watcher, hit #9 in the Kindle store, and her follow-up, The Thinnest Air, hit #1 in the Kindle store and spent five weeks as a Washington Post bestseller.

She's represented by Jill Marsal at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Visit her website at http: //winterrenshaw.com, or connect with her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/authorwinterrenshaw or on Instagram (@winterrenshaw).