Sophie Bennett is running from her past. A failed engagement. A cheating ex-fiancé who left her at the altar. A life in Boston that fell apart. She books a solo trip to Pine Ridge Lodge in the Colorado mountains?two weeks of skiing, hot chocolate, and healing in solitude.Then a blizzard hits. Roads close. The airport shuts down. Sophie is stranded at the lodge with a dozen other guests. Including him.Ethan Cole. Her ex-fiancé's best friend. The best man who tried to warn her. The man she hasn't seen since the wedding that never happened. The man who broke her heart by not stopping the wedding when he knew the truth.They're trapped together. Snowed in. No escape. Just forced proximity and a lot of unresolved feelings.Sophie wants to avoid him. Stay in her room. Wait out the storm in silence. But the lodge is small. Meals are communal. Activities are group-based. And Ethan keeps trying to talk to her. To explain. To apologize for not telling her about the cheating sooner.Sophie doesn't want his apologies. Doesn't want to hear excuses about loyalty and friendship. Doesn't want to remember how she'd started falling for Ethan before she even got engaged to his best friend.That was her secret. Her shame. She'd been engaged to Marcus but attracted to Ethan. Guilty about feelings she couldn't control. Relieved when Ethan kept his distance. Heartbroken when he didn't fight for her at the wedding.Ethan has his own regrets. He should have told Sophie about Marcus's cheating months before the wedding. Should have admitted his own feelings instead of watching her marry his best friend. Should have been brave instead of loyal to the wrong person.Now they're stuck together for two weeks. Sharing meals. Participating in group activities. Sitting by the same fire every evening. Forced to confront everything unsaid between them.Long conversations by firelight turn into confessions. Shared pain becomes understanding. Anger softens into forgiveness. And somewhere in the snowed-in isolation, two wounded hearts start healing.Sophie realizes Ethan tried to protect her. That his loyalty was misplaced but his intentions were good. That he's been carrying his own guilt and regret for three years.Ethan realizes Sophie never loved Marcus the way she should have. That maybe she'd felt the connection between them too. That maybe they've wasted three years being apart when they should have been together.The snow will eventually melt. The roads will open. They'll have to leave the lodge and return to real life. The question is: will they leave together? Or let fear and the past keep them apart?SNOWED IN TOGETHER is a heartwarming mountain lodge romance about second chances, healing from betrayal, forced proximity that leads to love, winter mountain magic, learning to forgive, and discovering that sometimes the person you're meant to be with was there all along?you just weren't ready to see it.Perfect for fans of snowed-in romance, mountain lodge settings, second chance at love, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, ex's best friend romance, forced proximity, emotional healing, and happily ever afters that prove love is worth the wait.
