As Dr. Howard Sterling rode along that wintry night thinking of dark-eyed, spoiled Rose, he was interrupted by a shout of horror from the chauffeur. The young physician looked out of the car to see, lying in a snow bank, the lovely, ethereal figure of a girl. A moment later he knelt beside her looking for signs of life, and reassured by faint breathing, rushed her to his hospital. In the days that followed, as Dr. Sterling worked to save the unknown girl, he found himself wondering what tragedy had taken away her will to live. At the same time that the young doctor found his mysterious patient, on another side of town middle- aged Martha Spicer woke up one morning to find herself a woman of means, but a lonely one. Strangely, the fate of these three people, together with that of a young boy, was to become inextricably mingled and change the course of their lives.

Review taken from a Grosset and Dunlap edition.