THE CRESTON RIDGE ALPHAS

Some storms don't just strip away visibility. They strip away everything you've been hiding.

Eli Vance doesn't do exposed. Two years ago, a judgment call on the mountain cost him the co-founder of his search-and-rescue team and his best friend. Since then, he's run Creston Ridge's elite Alpha Team on precision and protocol, kept his rope taut, and made sure nothing and no one gets close enough to matter again.

Sloane Archer doesn't do exposed either. Seven years documenting the world's worst days taught her exactly how to point a camera at anything and feel nothing at all. A quiet mountain assignment should have been the easiest job of her career: two weeks, a few warm photos of rugged mountain heroes, then back to her life. Simple.

Then the weather turns.

A rescue gone sideways strands them together at 11,200 feet with a dying radio, one heater, and seventy-two hours until the storm breaks. No team. No cameras. No distance left to hide behind.

What Sloane finds when she stops photographing Eli and starts actually seeing him will undo two years of careful control. What Eli finds when he stops managing Sloane and starts letting her in will cost him the one thing he swore he'd never risk again.

The storm will clear. The question is whether either of them will still be standing behind their walls when it does.

Zero Visibility is Book One in The Creston Ridge Alphas, a slow-burn, forced-proximity romance series about the search-and-rescue team that saves everyone but themselves until they don't.