Aged 22, Rebecca Grenville, is given her first big interview - William King, 25 year old internet billionaire. Haunted by an episode from her Amish childhood, Rebecca battles to make her relationship with Will King work only for happiness to be snatched away from her by a series of unforeseen events that threaten her very existence.

Left on her own on Black Mountain, Vermont, in January when the North Eastern states are experiencing one of the heaviest snow storms for years, Annie is slowly recovering from a hysterectomy. Her husband, John Jackson, is attending a conference in New York City. Her two grown-up children live a long way away, her daughter in Montana and her son and his family in Florida. Annie is exhausted both from the operation and the problems of trying to deal with her husband's inattentions and the fact she is unable to work at the job she loves: teaching children in an all age school in rural Vermont....

Rebecca is inevitably drawn back to the Conewango Valley and her childhood Amish community. After dealing with her parents' death Rebecca has the continuing problem of Ben's coma to deal with. The secret of Boopsie is eventually revealed but something from Rebecca's past prevents her from becoming as close to Will as she wants to. Ben's eventual recovery seems likely but it is going to take a long time. Slowly Will and Rebecca's relationship develops until it is shattered by an incident that totally wrecks Rebecca's growing trust in Will.