The Weight of Air

She has memorized the sound of his truck in the driveway. Not because she is excited to see him. Because she needs the extra seconds to check her own face in the mirror.

Sienna Marsh has a beautiful life in Creston, Colorado. A charming husband who coaches little league. A house on Spruce Lane that looks exactly like it should. A collection of long-sleeved shirts she wears in July. And a growing awareness that the woman staring back at her in the bathroom mirror looks exactly like her mother did at this age.

Dr. Nate Cervantes came to Creston's mountain hospital to escape the career that was burning him out. He saves people for a living. He reads bodies for a living. And when Sienna comes into his emergency room, he sees everything she is hiding — written in bruise and fracture and the careful way she won't quite meet his eyes.

He wants to save her. She is not ready to be saved. She needs to save herself. But saving yourself is harder when you don't yet believe you're worth it — and harder still when the man across the exam table is the first person in years who has looked at you like you're something worth saving.

At 8,200 feet, there is nowhere to hide from what you are carrying. The altitude strips away everything. Including the lie that this is love.

Content warnings: This book contains on-page depictions of intimate partner violence, emotional abuse and manipulation, and discussions of generational abuse patterns. It is not an easy read. It is an honest one. Resources are included at the back.

Tropes: forced proximity · protector romance · small-town setting · slow burn · she saves herself · dual POV

Book 1 of The Altitude Series. Can be read as a complete standalone. Guaranteed HEA.

For fans of emotional contemporary romance, unreliable narrators, and books that start as love stories and end as truths you weren't expecting.

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