A virtuous lady, a dashing soldier, and wicked weather...(Please Note – This novel contains graphic love scenes.)Christmas, 1814, on the road from Rockleford...Miss Eleanor Pritchard, long-time companion to an aging noblewoman, learns too late that a Christmas invitation does not include her. But with deadly weather looming, a lonely holiday is the least of her concerns.Home from war, Major Hugh Dalton plans to spend Christmas with his mother, but an ice storm forces him to seek shelter in the ruins of an abbey—a delay with the potential to change two lives.