January Thaw

She thought she was broken. She thought she was fine. Newfoundland doesn't care what you think.

Maren is still cleaning the wreckage. Three months after escaping a man whose love turned out to be a performance, she can't tell the difference between intuition and paranoia anymore. The Rosé Rescue Protocol sends her to Newfoundland in January — the most brutal, beautiful, unlikely place to heal — because the squad doesn't do gentle when gentle isn't working.

At a frozen research station on the coast, she meets Cal — a marine biologist who studies seabirds, speaks in near-silence, and has never once tried to convince anyone of anything. He's a widower who still sets two mugs out of habit. He doesn't chase. He doesn't perform. He just stays.

And Maren — who learned in Montana that charming men are the most dangerous kind — doesn't know what to do with a man who means exactly what he says.

Meanwhile, Diane sits in a pew at the Basilica and cries for the first time in twenty years. She doesn't know why. She just knows that being "fine" has been the longest lie she's ever told — and Newfoundland, with its raw wind and honest strangers, refuses to let her keep telling it.

January Thaw is the second book in The Rose Rescue Protocol, a mid-life romance trilogy about the women who won't let you disappear — even when you're trying to. Perfect for readers who love Susanna Kearsley's atmospheric romance, Sarah Addison Allen's magic realism, and Kristin Harmel's emotional depth.

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