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The Boy from the Other Side of Winter
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Publisher: Norma Yanez Chula Vista
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every night at two o'clock, Emily Sullivan watches a stranger standing at the edge of the frozen woods.He never calls out. He never knocks. He simply stands beneath the falling snow, keeping silent vigil over the crumbling Sullivan estate.For Emily, the old house has become a prison of grief. Since the death of her beloved sister Brooke, she has barely managed to move forward. Surrounded by memories, family expectations, and the suffocating silence of winter, Emily has convinced herself that staying behind is the only way to keep Brooke alive.Then the stranger finally steps out of the darkness.His name is Noah Reeves, and he carries a secret that will change everything Emily believes about her sister. Years earlier, Brooke had loved Noah in secret-a man her wealthy family would never have accepted. Before her death, Brooke made Noah promise that he would watch over Emily and make sure she was never left alone.For years, Noah has kept that promise.But Emily soon discovers that being protected is not the same as being free.As the long winter continues, midnight conversations and shared cups of tea draw Emily and Noah into an unexpected emotional bond. Noah begins to see Emily not as Brooke's fragile sister, but as a woman struggling to discover who she is beneath years of guilt and family expectations. Emily, in turn, begins to wonder whether the man standing in the snow is guarding her because of a dead woman-or because he has developed feelings of his own.Then Emily discovers the truth.A photograph reveals Noah and Brooke together, exposing the secret love Brooke kept hidden. Emily is devastated by the realization that the mysterious man she trusted first came into her life because of a promise to her dead sister. Their growing connection suddenly feels like a betrayal, and Emily fears that Noah has never truly seen her as herself.But Noah confesses that the promise was only the beginning. Somewhere along the way, Emily became the reason he returned. He admits that he stopped seeing Brooke in her and began seeing the woman Emily had become. Yet even that revelation cannot erase the uncomfortable truth: his devotion has become another kind of cage.Emily finally chooses herself.She tells Noah that the promise has been fulfilled and that she cannot spend the rest of her life being someone's responsibility. She needs to discover whether she can survive the winter without a sentinel standing guard.Noah leaves.For the first time since Brooke's death, Emily is truly alone-but the loneliness no longer feels like a tomb. She begins dismantling the old life that kept her frozen in place, refuses to let others decide her future, and chooses a modest home where she can finally live by her own rules.The winter does not end because someone saves Emily.It ends because she learns to save herself.The Boy from the Other Side of Winter is an atmospheric emotional romance about grief, secret love, survivor's guilt, and the difficult journey from being protected to becoming free.
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