Everyone in Maple Lake thinks they know Ledger Nash. They’re wrong.

Ledger Nash is a widower, a single dad, and—as far as Maple Lake knows—a guy who tinkers in his garage. Nobody knows he’s the self-taught entrepreneur behind the ice-fishing shelters half the lake is sitting in. He’d like to keep it that way.

Enter Dakota Edwards. Two days ago she had the title, the corner office, and the color-coded life to prove she’d earned all of it—until her boss fled the country with the money and left her holding the paperwork.

Now she’s got fifty dollars, a frozen bank account, her name on a federal investigation, and a sister getting married in a week in a Minnesota town she’s never heard of. What she does not have is any intention of letting a single soul see her fall apart.

He needs a nanny for two weeks. She needs a paycheck and a place to hide from the media.

Falling in love is absolutely not in the plan.

But coffee at his kitchen table turns into her fixing the business problem he can’t crack alone. Fixing turns into late-night laughter. And a little girl who lost her mama starts reaching for the woman who’s only supposed to be temporary.

She’s hiding who she used to be. He’s hiding who he really is. And the closer they get, the harder both secrets fight to stay buried.

She came here to disappear. She never planned on being found.

A small-town, single-dad, secret-millionaire romance about the terrifying grace of being fully known—and a love that falls as quietly as snow.