Gale Devereaux’s picture can be found in the dictionary next to the word introvert.

Her work as a forensic scientist keeps her busy and lets her stay tucked away in her safe space—her home.

Her parents were murdered when she was a child, and she has struggled with people-ing ever since. Two decades later, she still prefers emails to eye contact, and silence to small talk. But Dean—insurance investigator, extrovert, and professional boundary-smasher—won’t leave her alone.

When they’re assigned to work a case together in person a blizzard traps them under the same roof.

She’s spent years building walls to keep people out, but Dean might just be the one to slowly chip away at her icy exterior.