Ice Out

June Tam comes home to Duluth for one winter to help run her family's Cantonese restaurant after her father's stroke. Anders Holm, who washed dishes there at sixteen and now raises the Aerial Lift Bridge, has loved her for eleven years without a word. When the aunties start matchmaking, she proposes they pretend to date until the Lantern Festival. A slow, warm, closed-door love story in the register of a Chinese drama, with the ending an American romance promises.

Price

$3.99

Formats

EPUB and PDF

Length

18 parts, 93 pages

Series

Duluth Romance, number 1

Author

Sigrid Song

Edition accepted

2026-09-29

• slow burn romance
• closed door romance
• books like C-dramas
• Chinese American romance
• fake dating
• second chance romance
• Duluth

What you receive

One download holding the EPUB (1,029 KB) and PDF (286 KB) of the accepted edition. Your library always serves the newest accepted edition, so a corrected edition reaches you at no charge.

Contents

1. The Walk-In
2. Operator's House
3. Sea Smoke
4. Terms
5. Last Ship
6. Fire Horse
7. Eleven Years
8. Winter Work
9. Lantern Festival
10. Icebreaker
11. Out Loud
12. Ice Out
13. An Ocean with No Salt
14. About This Book
15. The Duluth Romance
16. Tong Yuen for the Lantern Festival
17. Words and Places
18. For Book Clubs

How it was made

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An independent proofreading agent, not the one that wrote it, read this edition and reported 0 errors, 9 corrections and 7 notes; each was fixed, or answered with a reason, and checked against the final files before the edition was accepted.

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