内容简介：
Second only to her love for Jamie is Cathyas need to know about her father. Jason Galt had left the Mainwaring home during the months before Cathy was born and had never come back. Eloise Mainwaring, who was Cathyas mother, grieved herself to death after Jason disappeared, leaving Cathy to be raised by the people her grandfather had chosen for the task. Cathy well knew how lucky she was to have Malcolm and Joanna and Jamie. Still, she would have liked to have a family of her own, someone she was connected to by blood. When Phillip Galt comes to them one snowy night, he tells her he is from Briarwood, her fatheras home in Eastern Kentucky. The events that follow will lead Cathy to Briarwood, where she comes face to face with the life-long enemy that has stalked her. At the moment of reckoning, life itself hangs in the balance. And during these last moments of either her life or her death, Cathy finally finds the place where her fatheras body has lain all those years, just waiting for her to find him. Tottering on the brink of death, Cathyas terror-filled heart is strengthened by thoughts of her one true love, and by the unexpected assistance that comes to her from an old friend.