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William Langdon looks like a man preserved from another era. He has all the soft grain of old cinema, a man cut from a cloth no one wears anymore. He's polished, refined, effortlessly charming, and it makes people lower their guard around him without ever quite knowing why.
Maple Bennett knows better than to accept a ride from a stranger, especially on a deserted road, in the middle of a raging storm, far enough from the nearest town that the shape of it feels like a memory. And yet, when Will pulls up beside her lonely bus stop, rain streaking his windshield and concern in his gaze, something in her is set on edge.
Refusing him should have been simple. But simple is for kind men. Normal men.
By the time Maple understands what she's stepped into, the road has disappeared behind her, the storm has closed in, and the man at her side has all the patience of a man who gets what he wants.
The most terrifying thing about Will Langdon is not how far he can bend her, it's the loving hands that refuse to let her break.