When Hell Freezes Over by Hailey Klier Decker

Johanna
I don’t believe in love.
Not the kind that lasts. Not the kind that stays.
Six years ago I walked away from Brandon Jackson—the heavily tattooed, golden retriever bassist of Catastrophically Charismatic—and when I did, I thought I’d lost my one chance of having it all.
He was my brother’s best friend. No matter how good it felt, what we had was too complicated. Too messy. Too much.
I told myself leaving was the only way to save him—let him chase his dream without the fallout… without the chaos that comes with loving someone like me.
But now my brother’s wedding has pulled us back into each other, and Brandon is done letting the past stay buried.
He wants answers. Closure. Maybe even more.
And me?
I’m just trying to survive it without needing him—especially now that I’m the one who might need saving.

Brandon
She left without a word.
No goodbye. No explanation. Just silence and a trail of questions I was never supposed to ask.
Six years ago, Johanna Harris—my best friend’s little sister, the one person I was never supposed to fall for—walked away from me like what we’d had that summer meant nothing.
I told myself it didn’t matter. It was just bad timing… something we were never meant to hold onto.
But even though I should have, I never fully let her go.
The truth is—I would’ve taken the complication. The chaos. All of it.
As long as it meant I got to keep her.
Now my best friend’s wedding has put her back in front of me, and this time, I’m not letting her disappear without answers.
She thinks she can shut me out again. Pretend none of it mattered after a year of almosts and near misses
She’s wrong.
Because whatever this is between us?
It’s far from over.

When Hell Freezes Over is a dual timeline, dual POV contemporary romance about unfinished love, second chances, and the kind of connection that refuses to stay buried. As the past and present collide in the lead-up to Mia Alexander and Grayson Harris’s wedding, this second installment in the When The Lights Go Down series of interconnected standalone novels proves that some love stories don’t end, they just linger like a song you can’t forget… even after the last note fades.