From the first, Maddie Carlton felt that she'd met mysterious Rory March before. Now he appeared on her doorstep when she least expected--and vanished just as swiftly.

Yet, at each visit, Rory brought Maddie and her boy the warmth and joy their lives had been missing for so long--ever since the tragedy that had taken her husband.

But who was "Rory" really? And could the man who'd restored her faith--and saved Christmas for her son--teach Maddie to love again?