The Mercy of Cold Ebook (The Maple Lake Collection - Smitten Season - Book 2)

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She lied her way into a family. He's sworn to protect them.

Maya Foster was left at a fire station when she was a week old—the coldest start a life can have. Thirty years and one DNA test later, she has a name, a town she's never heard of, and a half-brother who never answered her message. So she drives to Maple Lake just to look. Just once.

Then the Donovans mistake her for a job applicant—and before she can find the words, she's shaking hands on a position inside the very family she came to claim. It's not a lie. She'll tell them who she is. Eventually. Once they like her enough that the truth won't send them running.

The complication has a badge. Deputy Sheriff Sawyer Matthews is fighting to win an election he isn't sure he wants, in a town that thinks his late father handed him the job. The Donovans are the closest thing to family he has left—and he'll protect them from anything. Even the woman at their table. The one he's falling for. The one whose story doesn't quite add up.

But Maya isn't the only one in Maple Lake keeping a secret. And when both come loose at once, Sawyer has to choose: the family, the badge, and the life he's built—or the truth she drove all this way to find.

She's spent thirty years wondering where she came from. He's holding the answer.

The Mercy of Cold is the second standalone novel in Maple Lake: Smitten Season—four cozy winter romances from Sunrise Publishing. Cold hands. Warm hearts. Come get smitten.

READERS WILL LOVE…

●        A found-family romance about an abandoned girl who drives to a strange town just to look—and accidentally gets hired by the family she came to find.

●        A protective small-town sheriff living in his late father's shadow, who'd guard the people he loves from anyone—including the woman he's falling for.

●        A secret that grows heavier with every family dinner, and the ache of belonging somewhere you're afraid to claim.

●        Two people keeping secrets to protect the people they love—and one truth that could give one of them everything and cost the other everything.

●        Clean, closed-door romance. Big heart. No spice. And the coldest moments that turn out to be the greatest mercies.

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About the Author:

Alyssa Schwarz is a Colorado native who attended the Colorado School of Mines, got her master’s in geological engineering, and promptly became a watercolor artist and author (as one does). She loves writing heartfelt romances with happy endings, a bit of mystery, faith, humor, and second chances. When she’s not writing, you can find her cooking, quilting, painting, or doing any number of crafty activities.

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