Some storms disrupt your plans.
Others change the direction of your life.
In Stay Until the Snow Melts, the forthcoming romance from author L. A. Macrae, a journey that begins as one woman’s chance to finally step outside her comfort zone becomes something far more unexpected when a Canadian snowstorm brings two strangers together.
The first book in Macrae’s Between Seasons series introduces Zoe Macfarland, a thirty-year-old woman who is ready for something different.
For once, Zoe decides not to wait for someone else to join her or for the perfect moment to arrive. She books three weeks in Canada on her own, imagining snow-covered scenery, exploration and the freedom to simply do what she wants. The decision feels unfamiliar and slightly frightening but also exhilarating. For Zoe, getting on that plane means proving to herself that she can choose adventure instead of remaining safely in the background.
Canada gives her that adventure almost immediately.
Just not in the way she expected.
Zoe chooses a scenic route through the snowy countryside, stopping to appreciate a landscape that feels almost like a postcard. Then the weather changes.
Snow falls harder.
The road becomes dangerous.
And black ice sends her rental car sliding into a ditch.
Suddenly, Zoe is stranded in deep snow with no traffic nearby and no simple way to continue her carefully planned trip. Then she notices something in the distance: a cabin, smoke curling from its chimney.
The woman who answers the door is Bethany Macdonald.
Beth welcomes the freezing traveler inside, helps arrange a tow truck and offers Zoe somewhere warm to wait. It should be a brief interruption in both their lives.
But the storm intensifies into a blizzard.
Help cannot reach them.
One night becomes several days.
And somewhere along the way, being stranded begins to feel less like a disaster.
Inside Beth’s cabin, the outside world slows almost to a stop. Zoe and Beth begin sharing the small routines of everyday life: coffee and breakfast, cooking together, movies by the fire, conversations and moments of unexpected laughter.
They also begin discovering one another.
Zoe sees beyond Beth’s quiet independence and into the creative world she has built around her stained-glass artwork. Beth begins recognising Zoe’s kindness, humour and instinctive desire to care for others. As familiarity grows, so does an emotional closeness neither woman had planned.
But Stay Until the Snow Melts is not simply about two people falling for each other because they happen to be trapped together.
It is about what happens when isolation gives them permission to become more honest.
Zoe begins exploring feelings that are entirely new to her. Beth allows someone into parts of her life she normally keeps private. Their relationship develops slowly through vulnerability, trust, affection and the realization that ordinary moments can become extraordinary when shared with the right person.
And all the while, the snow keeps falling.
For a while, it protects their little world from everything beyond the cabin.
Eventually, however, it must melt.
The roads will reopen. Zoe’s car will be recovered. The life waiting beyond the storm will return.
That approaching reality transforms a romantic winter escape into something much more emotional: a question of whether an unexpected connection can become something lasting.
For readers who love slow-burn romance, forced proximity, snowbound settings, emotional intimacy and character-driven relationships, L. A. Macrae’s upcoming novel offers a new story to watch.
A storm is coming.
Two lives are about to collide.
And by the time the snow begins to melt, nothing may be quite the same again.
Stay Until the Snow Melts by L. A. Macrae, Book One of the Between Seasons series, is currently in the publishing phase and will be available soon.
