The Rose Beneath The Ice
"Your father killed my father."She was eleven when he said it. He never took it back.Rosalie Irving grew up under the Carmichael roof as a debt she could never fully repay, raised out of guilt, mocked at every dinner table, and made to understand, again and again, that she would never truly belong. Not a sister. Not a Carmichael. Just the daughter of the man they say killed his father.Now grown, she still calls him Mr. Carmichael. Still lowers her eyes when his find her across a room. Still tells herself the past is settled.It isn't.A stranger's phone call. A house she hasn't seen in thirteen years. A truth someone has spent a decade making sure stays buried, and a man who was never as indifferent to her as he wanted the world to believe.A dark, slow-burn romance of buried secrets, forbidden longing, and a hatred that was never quite what it looked like.…










