Trust Fall

Freshly fired and newly homeless, twenty-eight-year-old Sophia Olsen is certain life can’t get worse. So when her best friend offers sanctuary in her family’s unused cabin, Sophia is horrified to find it already occupied by her best friend’s wretched step-brother, Will. What’s worse than sharing a remote cabin in the woods with her least favorite person on this godforsaken planet? Living with the secrecy of their former fling.

Abandoned by his mother at age thirteen after the reveal of his father’s affair, the last thing Will expects is to find a mysterious letter attached to his mother’s will, dangling the closure he’s never had in front of his eyes. The problem? Said closure is essentially a needle in a haystack, which would be much easier to search for if not for being stuck sharing a house with his step-sister’s best friend—who reinforced his lifelong distrust of people after she played him like a fiddle two years ago.

As Will and Sophia live with one another, secrets inevitably surface, creating a bond between them they never could have imagined. Can the two of them, still ladled with their past traumas and current struggles, overcome their histories to create a future together?

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