She Built A Shack From Scraps With Her Shaking Hands—Until Her Dead Husband’s Brother Said “Enough.”

She Built A Shack From Scraps With Her Shaking Hands—Until Her Dead Husband’s Brother Said “Enough.”

She was building a shack with scraps… because nobody else would build her a future.

Montana Territory, 1881 — early winter comes like a knife. The wind howls off the mountains, the sky hangs low and merciless, and a young widow is out in the open valley hammering nails into rotted boards with bleeding, shaking hands.

Her shelter is barely standing.
The next storm will flatten it.
And she knows it.

Watching from the ridge is the last man she ever wanted to see again…

Noshi — Cheyenne by his mother’s blood, a Crowley by the name his father gave him… and the brother of the husband she buried alone.
Ten months ago, after the avalanche took Matthew, Noshi vanished like a ghost—leaving Hazel to face grief, hunger, whispers, and a burned-down home with nobody at her side.

Now he’s back…
and he doesn’t come with apologies.

He comes with lumber, nails, tools… and a vow that sounds like it could start a war:

“Enough.”

Because Hazel isn’t just grieving anymore—
she’s freezing.
She’s starving.
And the frontier has already decided she’s expendable.

But Noshi refuses to let the mountain take another life from him.

As the first snow threatens the valley, two broken souls are forced into the same firelight—
one carrying guilt like a wound that won’t close…
the other carrying pride like it’s the last thing she owns.

And when the storm finally hits…

will Hazel accept the only help left in the world?
Or will her dead husband’s brother be too late—again?

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