When Sophie Bennett arrives in Wild Peaks with her blueprints and her city shoes, her mission is simple: convince a reluctant town that it needs the future she's offering. What wasn't in the plans was Jake Blackthorn. The mountain's silent guardian, Jake has spent years choosing solitude as penance. Sophie is everything he swore to keep out-the noise, the change, the terrifying possibility of having something to lose again. But conflict has a way of becoming collaboration. And collaboration, something far more dangerous. A story about what it costs to build something that lasts-in the land, and in the heart. When Sophie gives up the opportunity of a lifetime to stay in Wild Peaks, the cost of that sacrifice is exposed in the most public, devastating way possible. Now she must decide-climb back to the man who betrayed her, or let the mountain keep him.