He is rich, successful in business, and has an adult daughter. She is a young widow, earning her living by the sweat of her brow. But they have something in common: fate treated both of them unkindly, depriving them of faith in love, making loneliness their lot. So they would have dragged out their joyless existence if one cold winter evening, in a snowstorm, he had not found her freezing in a broken car.

Note 2022: Published under the pseudonym Sally Lanning, but by Sandra Field.< /p>