THORNBURY RIDGE · BOOK THREE · COMING SOON

Thin Ice

By Tessaly Marchbank · Thornbury Ridge

The woman who left town six years ago, the ice sculptor who never stays, and one cabin with one couch.

About the book

She's the woman who left. He's the man who never stays.

Six years ago, Delia Marsh sent the text that ended her engagement forty minutes before the wedding. Thornbury Ridge, Vermont, has never forgotten it. Now her parents' lake cabin won't sell, a buyer from Connecticut finally wants it, and there's just one problem: her father has rented it for the winter, on a napkin, "until the thaw."

Luc Gagnon carves ice for a living. Moose, mostly. He's made beautiful things in twenty towns and left every one of them before the spring. He's got a commission for the town's 102nd Winter Vows, a lake full of perfect ice, and absolutely no intention of letting a Boston architect with a three-color highlighter throw him out.

There's one couch, one woodstove, and a second bedroom that supposedly has no heat. There's an arch to build, a whole town placing bets in the diner, and a basset hound in a red bow who for some reason has decided he likes her.

And there's the ice, which is always telling you something. Usually where not to go.

Because Delia's due back in Boston on January second, and Luc leaves at the thaw. Every time. That's the deal. Unless a woman who once ran away can learn how to stay, and a man who has never asked anyone for anything can learn how to ask.

Thin Ice is a steamy, big-hearted second-chance-at-everything romance with forced proximity, a grumpy-sunshine-in-reverse sculptor, an architect who's decided, a whole meddling small town, and a guaranteed happily ever after. It's Book 3 in the Thornbury Ridge series and can be read as a standalone, though readers of Snowbound at Hollow Pine and Sugar Season will find some old friends at the bar.