A Sparrow Imprisoned in Snow

Sweet romance + childhood sweethearts + a plan years in the making

From the moment she was born, he began a gentle tyranny that would last twenty years.

“She wasn’t stolen from me. I simply claimed my share of fate ahead of time.” Clinically speaking, he is a “high-functioning antisocial personality,” with virtually no capacity for empathy, yet he plays the “perfect empath” in front of the heroine. No one is allowed to maintain physical contact with him for more than ten seconds. She is the one exception: he can pull her into his arms and hold her so tightly she can barely breathe.