He Was My Salvation, My CurseMaeve Willow Holloway learned early that love is a dangerous illusion. After losing her parents in a tragedy that shattered her world, and being raised by the last fragile piece of her family, she built her life in silence. In a quiet, snow-covered town in Norway, she carved out stability with nothing but her bakery, her discipline, and the promise she made to herself—to never fall in love again.That promise breaks the night she finds a wounded stranger in a mountain cave during a violent snowstorm.Lucien Vale is everything her world is not—wealthy, polished, and from a life she never belonged to. He is also a man running from something he refuses to name. Maeve saves him without hesitation, not knowing that he is tied to the very past she has spent her life trying to bury.What begins as survival becomes closeness. What begins as gratitude becomes something far more dangerous. In the isolation of winter, where the world feels distant and time slows beneath endless snow, Maeve begins to feel again.But truth does not stay buried forever.As hidden family histories surface and long-guarded secrets unravel, Maeve is forced to confront a reality she never imagined: the man she saved is connected to the destruction of her own family. Love and betrayal collide, and every truth uncovered fractures the life she rebuilt piece by piece.When heartbreak turns into irreversible loss, Maeve disappears with what remains of her world—leaving behind a man who once saved her just as much as he destroyed her.But in a story built on secrets and silence, nothing stays finished.Not love.Not truth.Not the past.