At a university where reputations are dismantled without confrontation, Sung Hung becomes the target of rumors no one admits to starting. As her social world narrows and silence replaces confrontation, she begins noticing patterns others refuse to acknowledge. When a strange man appears in places he shouldn’t—inside her home, at the edges of her campus life—he confirms what she fears: the rumors are intentional, and waiting will not stop what’s coming. Truth is already shifting. And inaction has consequences.

“I returned home that winter to sell what remained of my past. I never expected the buyer to be the boy my life broke away from — and never healed from.” Will she finally face the past she ran from — or will she let winter take it away for good?