A cozy autumnal retreat in the Scottish Highlands is the perfect escape for city girl, Harper… Until she is stranded in the forest with nowhere to stay. Fraser, a gruff local woodcutter, reluctantly offers her his lumberjack’s cabin on one condition—she mustn’t distract him from his duties. But Fraser is finding his beautiful guest annoyingly hard to ignore. And the way he chops firewood—dogged, powerful and precise—is distracting Harper too.

Soon, as the flame-red leaves fall overhead, Harper and Fraser are both forced to wonder: Am I falling faster?