Beyond Valor

He’s a war hero. She’s the vulnerability he never saw coming. Just days before Christmas, law student Ivy Ashford’s nineteen-year-old sister vanishes without a trace. The police are convinced it’s murder, but Ivy refuses to give up hope. Enter Cody Everson, a battle-hardened investigator who wants a quiet holiday, not another case. Yet Ivy’s determination pulls him into a search as relentless as the nor’easter closing in on them. Forced into a fragile partnership that quickly sparks into something more, they uncover the hidden truths of Willow’s life—and, in the process, confront the scars of their own pasts that make trusting each other so hard. In a storm of lies, danger, and undeniable chemistry, can they find Willow before it’s too late? Or will the truth—and their own wounds—tear them apart?