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Until the Thaw

What begins as hostility becomes intimacy, then hunger, when two academic rivals are reluctantly snowed in together.

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An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella

Snowed in. Cut off. Far too close.

Eva Harper has spent months enduring Matthew Hycross's icy disdain. Oxford's golden boy may be brilliant, polished, and impossible to ignore, but he has made one thing clear: the American guest lecturer does not belong in his world.

But when a brutal blizzard leaves Matthew stranded and half-frozen on a lonely road, Eva has no choice but to bring him home to her remote cottage.

Inside the cottage

Old grievances begin to crack.

Away from the university, Matthew is not the man Eva thought he was. Beneath the arrogance is someone careful, restrained, unexpectedly tender, and far too easy to want.

Academic rivalry Forced proximity Snowbound cottage Only one warm bed
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Eva had survived Michigan winters.

Surely she could survive one English snowstorm, one ridiculous coat, and one unbearable (and unbearably handsome) Oxford professor.

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Sylvia Swan

About Sylvia Swan

Tea, tension, and second chances.

Sylvia Swan writes sophisticated spicy romance set in shadowed libraries, ancient colleges, and secluded Oxford cottages.

Oxford atmosphere Sharp restraint Open-door romance
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