desperate and determined maggie stanley grabs her small baby and runs into the snowy idaho night in her loneliest blackest hour she unexpectedly finds a warmth and comfort she has never known in the tender compassion of a handsome downandout stranger in rafe kendrick maggie recognizes a soul wounded like her ownthough she knows she must never trust any man ever againrafe is more than he seemsan enigmatic man of secrets who could give maggie the moon had he not vowed to spend his life alone but sometimes loves flames can transform a cold world into paradiseand a man whos lost nearly everything a woman whos forgotten how to dream and the helpless child who needs them both can become that most wondrous creation a family