After ten years chasing horizons through a camera lens, travel photographer Riley Harper comes home to Evergreen for one reason: her mother needs care. Snow piles at the curb. The house smells like pine cleaner and old photos. Riley plans a brief stop. In, help, out before memories get loud.
The first night ruins that plan. She collides hard with Jordan Wells, the woman who walked away ten years ago without a word. Now Jordan runs community events, steering the town's Valentine push: a Winter Romance festival built on cozy lights and snow-dusted smiles. The mayor pairs them up. Riley shoots the images. Jordan runs the schedule.
Blizzards trap them together. Old streets. Closed diners. The past keeps tapping their shoulders. A look held too long. A brush of gloves while hanging lights. Heat they thought was gone. Riley carries the anger of being left. Jordan carries guilt she never named. Between laughs over burnt coffee and late-night planning, the walls thin.
As the festival closes in and the snow keeps falling, Riley has a choice: keep distance, or step closer to the one person who knew her best. Jordan works to show she's not the same woman who fled, that what they buried still breathes.
In a town selling romance, can they rewrite their own story before winter decides for them?
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Valentine in Her Arms is a standalone romance set in a shared Valentine-themed world, where each story can be enjoyed on its own while belonging to the same series.
Every February, love shows up sideways. In Valentine in Her Arms, five women learn that romance doesn't stick to calendars or clean plans but it does answer when the heart's open. From pretend dates that stop feeling pretend to reunions shaped by cold air and winter light, each standalone story follows women pulled together when they least expect it.
These stories linger on small moments: shared coats by the door, breath fogging a window, hands finding each other in quiet rooms. Longing deepens. Tenderness grows teeth. Desire takes its time. Warm, intimate, and openly sensual, the series centers women loving women with honesty, heat, and endings that leave room to breathe.
Love doesn't follow rules it finds you anyway.
