Carla Murdoch had learned what it was to be alone, growing up on different army posts. But now her loneliness is terrible--for her officer father met a mysterious death on a foreign battlefield, and Carla has been sent to live in her new guardian"s New England mansion . . . a remote, snowbound place where she finds she isn"t really wanted. Together with her dog, Merlin, Carla must make a new start and face demons within and without--for her father"s killer is now on her trail, too! A thrilling novel of romantic suspense by one of the world"s favorite storytellers.