Eden Martelli is too busy fleeing the clutches of danger to realize she's running straight into the arms of a new love.

Speeding north through rural Maine, Eden Martelli wonders how her life came to this--on the run with her mute five-year-old son dozing fitfully in the passenger seat. When a breakdown leaves them stranded in Summer Harbor, Eden has no choice but to stay put through Christmas . . . even though they have no place to lay their heads.

Beau Callahan is a habitual problem solver--for other people anyway. He left the sheriff's department to take over...