Secret Nights and Northern Lights by Megan Oliver

A heart-swoony, scenery-soaked romance about finally choosing yourself—and getting stuck on a bucket-list trip with the one person who still knows exactly how to crack you open. Secret Nights and Northern Lights blends career stakes with Iceland adventure, plus that delicious second-chance tension when your childhood best friend/first love shows up like a ghost you never got closure from.

Mona Miller is the queen of “I’m fine!”—even when she’s absolutely not. At her travel magazine job, she’s the dependable yes-person who swallows frustration, smiles through fluff assignments, and never makes waves… until she gets passed over for a promotion. So she says yes to something huge: a make-or-break work trip to Iceland, determined to prove she belongs (even if she has to fake confidence all the way up a glacier).

The only problem? The photographer on the assignment is Benjamin Carter—her childhood best friend, her first love, and the boy who vanished fourteen years ago without a word. Mona’s got years of resentment to bury if she wants to survive the trip, but Iceland has a way of stripping people down to the truth. As the landscapes get wilder and the days get closer, the ice around Mona’s heart starts to melt—and the feelings she thought she’d outgrown come roaring back.

Now she has to decide: protect herself and keep it professional… or risk getting hurt again for a love that might finally be worth the leap.