Escaping Winter, Finding You: A Novel About Escaping Winter and Finding Something Unexpected. (The Winter Hearts #4)

Liam Archer is done.
After six months of carrying a project that gets handed to someone else, and a boss who calls his exhaustion a “learning opportunity,” he books a last-minute escape to Thailand—impulsive, irresponsible, and absolutely necessary. For once, he’s choosing himself.

Claire Donovan is also done.
Three years of running her boss’s life have erased her own. After yet another late-night demand and a denied vacation request, something inside her snaps. When her roommate texts a photo of a boarding pass and dares her to come along, Claire clicks confirm before she can talk herself out of it.

They’re strangers on parallel escape routes… until fate seats them side by side for seventeen hours.

What begins as small talk and shared airplane meals becomes something unexpectedly tender—laughter in turbulence, confessions in the dark, and a warmth neither of them expected to find before they even land.

But Bangkok is bigger, brighter, and more chaotic than anything they imagined.
Street markets, temples, tuk-tuks, and mango sticky rice pull them into a world where life runs warmer, slower, freer. And somewhere between navigating scams, sharing sunset views, and learning how to breathe again, Liam and Claire stop being two travelers running away—
and start becoming two people running toward something.

The question
When the vacation ends, will their connection end with it?
Or is this winter escape the beginning of something that can survive long after the flight home?

A heartwarming, funny, slow-burn travel romance about burnout, bravery, serendipity, and the unexpected magic of meeting the right person at the wrong time.