Frost and Fortune
Ethan Cole spent two decades earning a place in a family that only ever saw him as insurance — the placeholder son they adopted before they could have a "real"....
Ethan Cole spent two decades earning a place in a family that only ever saw him as insurance — the placeholder son they adopted before they could have a "real" one. When an unprecedented cold apocalypse begins closing in on the city of Meridian, his adoptive mother strips the survival gear off his back to save his golden-boy brother and throws him outside into a killing storm in his underwear. He dies on the front step, cursing every one of them. He wakes up fifteen days earlier — with his own death still frozen in his bones, the winning lottery numbers burned into his memory, and no intention of begging anyone for anything ever again. He cuts every legal tie to the family that threw him away, buys the mansion next door with his first fortune, and turns it into a fortress against the disaster only he knows is coming. But the closer the deadline creeps, the clearer it becomes that Ethan isn't the only one who saw this coming — and that the cold sweeping toward Meridian might not be as natural as everyone's been told. Now the countdown is running for everyone. And when it hits zero, only one house on Riverside Drive is going to still be warm.