Thawing Winter: A Holy Love Age-Gap Ice Queen Healing Novel

She crossed an ocean to disappear. The woman hired to fix her house could already hear what she refused to say.
Winter Van der Meer built a life on control—voice, rooms, distance. Then the instrument that made her famous betrayed her, again and again, until the stage went quiet and the press would not. She buys an antique villa on a Dalmatian island and tells herself that solitude is the cure.
Mira Knez is the last person Winter meant to let in. Thirty-four, blunt, brilliant with wiring and water, the only daughter in a house of men who still treat her skill like a favor. She has antennas most people call a gift. Mira calls it a curse. She has spent years putting other people’s houses back together. She is done being diminished.
What begins as a renovation becomes a problem neither woman can plaster over. Winter’s ice is old, expensive, and almost grown to her soul. Mira’s seeing does not ask permission. Twenty-two years sit between them. Want sits closer than either of them planned.
On an island that heals what cities ruin, an ice queen who no longer trusts love must decide whether disappearing is still the point—or whether she’s already attached.
Thawing Winter is a slow-burn, age-gap sapphic romance about a ruined voice, honest work, clairvoyance, and the kind of love that does not arrive politely. A Holy Love novel. Stands alone. Guaranteed HEA.
Perfect for readers who want mature heroines, emotional heat, and a thaw you have to earn.