Love Befalls in First Snow

She ran from one marriage and fell into another. Pregnant from a one-night stand she barely remembered, Alba agreed to marry the Cole family's third son—only to discover her real protector was Nicholas, the formidable patriarch everyone feared. Bound by a lie, he watched from the shadows, loving her in silence, waiting for the moment she'd finally see. All the accidents weren't accidents at all. In the first snow, their fates were already sealed. And he'd risk everything to claim her.