Sarah Sandlin is obsessed with genealogy and uses it to hide from life after losing her husband to cancer. To this thirty-something, auburn-haired, blue-eyed American, the world is limited to her computer, her parents who live nearby, and one best friend in another state.
She takes every opportunity to dodge interruption to her self-imposed solitude so when a letter inviting her to conduct research arrives from an old and respected family in the U.K., she forgets to open it.
She finds the letter buried on her desk and her natural curiosity pushes her to call its author, Thomas Smith.
Something in his voice leads her to a first step out of her comfort zone and she accepts his invitation to the family's country estate Highbridge, in North Yorkshire.
A celebration of Christmas at Highbridge, a reestablishment of family tradition and the healing of Sarah's heart begins.
About the Author: LINDA J PIFER
This Ohio-born author began writing at the age of five, encouraged by parents and later by teachers.
Definitely the independent type, artsy from an early age and avid reader, she grew up reading authors Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Pearl Buck, and Mark Twain. Favorites in later life have included Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Maeve Binchy, and who can resist J.K. Rowling.
I'm a Christian; my husband and family come first always, but sitting down to write a new book, cooking a good meal, shooting beautiful pictures and some occasional travel are big on the list along with an annual trip home to Ohio to reconnect with family and the inner me.
