Seven Letters of Winter by Maatla Marie

Seven weeks. Seven letters. One unforgivable truth.

Fifteen years ago, Elowen Vale's mother vanished from the storm-darkened cliffs of Wrenhaven.

The last person Elowen trusted that night was Callan Voss, heir to the fire-scarred mansion overlooking the sea.

By morning, he had betrayed her.

Now a funeral has brought Elowen back to the town she swore she would never see again.

Her estranged grandmother is dead, leaving Elowen half of Vesper House, seven sealed love letters, and one impossible condition:

Elowen must live inside the ruined mansion with Callan for seven winter weeks. Every Sunday at midnight, they must open one letter together.

If either of them leaves before the final letter is read, Vesper House and everything hidden inside it will be destroyed.

Elowen believes the letters will prove that the Voss family was responsible for her mother's disappearance.

Callan knows they could expose something far more dangerous.

Once, Callan was the person Elowen trusted most. One secret night inside Wrenhaven's dark lighthouse nearly changed everything between them. But the following morning, Callan denied it had ever happened, leaving Elowen with a broken promise and a wound that never truly healed.

Now winter has trapped them beneath Vesper House's shattered glass roof.

As they search locked rooms and restore fire-damaged letters, old resentment begins to resemble longing.

Callan becomes the only person who understands Elowen's grief.

Elowen becomes the only person who recognizes the fear beneath his cold, controlled exterior.

But the letters are not merely revealing a forbidden love affair.

They are exposing a conspiracy someone in Wrenhaven is willing to kill to protect.

And Callan has been keeping the one secret Elowen may never forgive.

Then they open the fourth letter.

It is addressed to Elowen.

It was written three months ago.

And the handwriting belongs to the mother everyone believes is dead.

Seven letters brought them back together. The final one could tear them apart forever.

Some love stories are written in ink. Theirs was written in fire.

The Seven Letters of Winter is an atmospheric gothic contemporary romance featuring enemies to lovers, forced proximity, second chances, a protective hero, forbidden letters, buried family secrets, and a slow-burning love story with a hopeful ending.