After the Ice Melts

Eight years after she last saw Jack Godley, Mia Collins runs into him in a hospital corridor. The bleached-blond boy she once knew is now a cold, aloof tycoon, and beside him stands a pregnant woman he treats with gentle concern. Mia, meanwhile, has just been told her cancer has spread too far for further treatment, and she walks out carrying her own death sentence.

When the script she wrote is rejected by the investor backing it, Mia learns that investor is Jack himself. He demands she rewrite the ending; she refuses, until the breach of contract fee leaves her no choice. Then his assistant, Mark, informs her that Jack wants her working from his offices, and a producer named Chloe warns that walking away would end both their careers.

Hiding her illness and rationing her painkillers, Mia must finish a story whose ending feels too personal to change, while the man who once knelt in the snow begging her to stay now watches her with open loathing.