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Coles A Slow Thaw: Grumpy Meets Sunshine in Maple Country at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Two years ago Wren Amory buried her father and shut the door on the whole town. She has been fine ever since. Ask anyone. Actually, don't.
She runs the family sugarbush alone now, the way she does everything, boiling maple sap through the short brutal weeks of a Vermont thaw and keeping her grief exactly where she likes it: private, frozen, and nobody's business. She doesn't need help. She definitely doesn't need the relentlessly cheerful stranger who just bought the old general store down the hill.
Micah Dunne is warmth on legs. He learns everyone's name inside a week. He brings coffee she didn't ask for and fixes gates she never mentioned and refuses, flatly refuses, to be scowled off her land. His dog has three legs, no concept of boundaries, and has decided Wren's sugarhouse is home.
Wren wants him gone. She really does. She just also can't stop listening for his truck at the end of the day.
But warm people are hiding something too, and the harder Micah insists he is fine, the more Wren knows that look, because it's the one she wears. When the sugaring season goes wrong and the whole town turns up to save what her father built, she has to decide whether letting people in is the bravest thing she will ever do, or the thing that finally breaks her.
A Slow Thaw is a tender grumpy-sunshine romance about grief and gladness sharing the same house, a prickly woman and a sunny man who are far more alike than either will admit, and the long, sweet, stubborn way a heart comes back to life. Some things only thaw when you stop trying to freeze them.
Two years ago Wren Amory buried her father and shut the door on the whole town. She has been fine ever since. Ask anyone. Actually, don't.
She runs the family sugarbush alone now, the way she does everything, boiling maple sap through the short brutal weeks of a Vermont thaw and keeping her grief exactly where she likes it: private, frozen, and nobody's business. She doesn't need help. She definitely doesn't need the relentlessly cheerful stranger who just bought the old general store down the hill.
Micah Dunne is warmth on legs. He learns everyone's name inside a week. He brings coffee she didn't ask for and fixes gates she never mentioned and refuses, flatly refuses, to be scowled off her land. His dog has three legs, no concept of boundaries, and has decided Wren's sugarhouse is home.
Wren wants him gone. She really does. She just also can't stop listening for his truck at the end of the day.
But warm people are hiding something too, and the harder Micah insists he is fine, the more Wren knows that look, because it's the one she wears. When the sugaring season goes wrong and the whole town turns up to save what her father built, she has to decide whether letting people in is the bravest thing she will ever do, or the thing that finally breaks her.
A Slow Thaw is a tender grumpy-sunshine romance about grief and gladness sharing the same house, a prickly woman and a sunny man who are far more alike than either will admit, and the long, sweet, stubborn way a heart comes back to life. Some things only thaw when you stop trying to freeze them.
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