Where the Ice Ends

About this book

Risk analyst Nora Vance inherits forty percent of a remote Patagonian sheep station and gives herself one week to sell it. Then a rockfall seals the road, the radio dies, and she is weathered in with the glacier guide who means to keep it. A slow-burn contemporary romance.

She flew to the end of the world to sell a place she had never seen. She did not plan to fall in love with it — or with the man determined to keep it.

Nora Vance prices risk for a living. Her rule is simple: love is a variable that leaves, so calculate the cost and leave first. So when her estranged father dies and wills her forty percent of a remote Patagonian sheep station beneath a fracturing glacier, she books a one-week trip to liquidate it and feel nothing.

Then a rockfall seals the only road. A storm kills the radio and the flights. And Nora is weathered in with Mateo Roan — the Welsh-Argentine glacier guide who runs the estancia, who has not set foot on the ice since the day it took his brother, and who is braced to hate the woman who came to sell his home.

What Nora finds at Estancia Las Animas rewrites everything she believed about the father who left her: a decade of secret love poured into this valley, and a hydro company circling to drown it. Her signature is the last thing they need to finish it. The safe move and the right move stop being the same thing.

As the season closes in and a foreclosure clock runs down, two people who have each spent a lifetime guarding against loss have to decide whether the bravest arithmetic is not pricing the risk to avoid it — but choosing it, out loud, one day at a time.

WHERE THE ICE ENDS is a sweeping, emotional, slow-burn contemporary romance set at the bottom of the world — for readers who love a remote and dangerous setting, a found family worth fighting for, and a love story that earns every inch of its hope.

Heat level: warm. A standalone with a Happy For Now you will want to reread.

Rope up. The ice is waiting.