Overview

She Traded Prada for Parkas... And Found More Than She Bargained For.

Marina Bellinger lives life in the fast lane, bathed in the sunshine and flashing lights of Miami's elite social scene. Or at least, she did. After one spectacularly public scandal involving too much champagne and a ruined penthouse, her furious mother cuts her off.

Exit luxury, enter exile. Marina and her sister are banished to the remote, freezing, end-of-the-earth town of Port Blossom, Washington, with instructions to renovate their estranged grandmother's derelict seaside inn – The Salty Gull. Good luck.

Armed with little more than designer luggage and a dwindling sense of entitlement, Marina is certain this is rock bottom

The town is tiny, the inn is crumbling, and the locals view her with suspicion – especially Selina, the sharp-witted, impossibly reserved owner of the town's only bookstore cafe. Selina thinks Marina is just another clueless city girl who won't last a week, let alone survive a Port Blossom winter. She might be right.

But surviving the leaky roof and questionable plumbing is only half the battle. Close quarters, a raging snowstorm, and Selina's surprising hidden depths lead to sparks neither woman expected. The frost between the fiery influencer and the guarded local begins to thaw, replaced by a simmering tension that heats up faster than the inn's ancient fireplace.

As Marina starts to find her footing, uncovering family secrets and discovering a strength she never knew she had, she questions everything she thought she wanted.

Just as Marina starts to believe she could build a real life, maybe even find real love, in this wild coastal town, a call from her glamorous past offers a tempting escape route back to everything she left behind. Can the fragile connection forged in the heart of winter survive the pull of Marina's old world, or will Selina's carefully guarded heart be left out in the cold?