Cynthia Sterling

All Elizabeth Matthews wants is to start a new life with her two boys in booming Ouray, Colorado. But when Marshall Garrett Nichols shows up at her door a few weeks before Christmas, 1890, Elizabeth wonders if she'll ever be able to outrun her old life. Garrett is out to catch a killer and recover a stolen fortune, but learns, from Elizabeth, how to take the tattered pieces of a trouble past and stitch them into something beautiful.