Thermal Runaway: An Engineering Romance

By Cheyenne Sterling

For two years, the distance between Mara Kovic and Elias Thorne has been exactly twelve feet, four inches.

Mara is a woman of constants: precise calculations, color-coded pens, and a heavily structured life. Elias is the entropy across the aisle: a handsome, brilliant engineer whose commanding presence and guarded silence constantly test her focus. They are colleagues who stick strictly to business, using polite conversation to mask the undeniable pull that has been growing between them since they first met.

Sent to the edge of the Arctic Circle to stop a disaster, Mara and Elias find themselves stranded in a landscape of blinding snow and dangerous heat. Far from the safety of their corporate high-rise, the rules of the office no longer apply. As the storm rages outside and the pressure of the job mounts, the walls they've built between them begin to crack.

Trapped together in the isolation of the frozen north, Mara and Elias must finally confront the connection they've been denying for years-before the heat between them burns everything down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKW4MW54
• ISBN13: 9798246304983
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"