Rescuing Us

She spends her life rescuing everyone else. He's determined to rescue her.

Social worker Poppy Piers is running on empty. Between fighting for emergency placements and surviving on instant noodles, she is perfectly content to carry the weight of the entire county on her own shoulders. She has no time for breaks, no room for help, and absolutely no bandwidth for the quiet, broad-shouldered paramedic who suddenly decides she's his personal priority.

Foster Wilde is the town's load-bearing wall. He spends his days pulling strangers out of wreckage, but the moment he spots the exhausted, ferociously kind social worker swaying on her feet, his protective instincts go into overdrive. It starts with a jumped battery and a warm diner meatloaf. Then it escalates to stolen moments, Sunday family dinners, and a relentless, steady campaign to prove that she doesn't have to face the cold alone.

Poppy has spent her whole life making sure she is useful so she won't be abandoned. But Foster doesn't want her for what she can do-he wants her exactly as she is. When winter storms and heartbreak push them to the breaking point, Poppy must decide: will she keep holding her armor together, or will she finally let a good man catch her when she falls?