She thought Christmas would save her. Instead, it stranded her in a town that watches too closely and asks nothing out loud. What do you do when the man you trusted becomes a stranger in one sentence? When the forest feels awake and aware of you? When something follows you through the snow, not to hunt, but to wait? Is fate a promise… or a sentence? Can you survive a bond you never agreed to? And what happens when the monster isn’t the thing with teeth but the truth you can’t outrun? This winter, running won’t save her. Staying might cost everything.