Sarah is minding the house alone when she comes across a bleeding man. Propriety would dictate that she leave him there and summon help, but unfortunately the weather causes her to make the more unconventional choice and drag him back to her home on a sled. She spends the next week nursing him back to health and struggling to stay alive. When the wood runs out, cold sets in and she is forced to make a decision. Does she follow propriety and let him freeze to death or do they share her body warmth? She makes the more practical decision but is caught by a self-righteous neighbor who is more than ready to smear her reputation.
Someone wants Alan dead. Quite possibly it could be his own brother. While he is grateful to the woman who has saved his life, he knows that there can never be anything between them. He has a much higher social standing than she does. When she saves his life yet again, he still thinks that there is some way of clearing her reputation without having to marry her. It takes him an annoying amount of time to see what his choices are doing to her.
The story itself was okay. I did have issues with the point of view, though. It was written in the omniscient point of view, where the author ended up switching whose head we were in numerous times. We would be in Sarah's head and then we would pop into her Dad's head for a paragraph and then back to Sarah. To me, that style of writing messes with the flow of the story.
Overall, the core of the story was decent, and I didn't have any issues reading through it in a timely manner. There were elements of it that didn't make much sense, but I read past them. The writing style wasn't to my liking and I don't think I'll pick up any more by this author.
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