Maggie was alone in the cabin when the snowstorm began,

until a half-frozen man appeared on the doorstep.

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On the eve of Maggie Raines’ fiftieth birthday, her husband announces he has gotten his young receptionist pregnant.

 

Months later, newly-divorced Maggie sees an ad for an 1800s cabin billed as the “perfect writer’s retreat.” For years she has wondered if she has what it takes to be a fiction writer.

 

Maggie rents the cabin for the week between Christmas and New Year’s hoping the old log walls will inspire a story.

 

And they do—just not the story she imagines.

 

A ghost. A body. A lonely small town sheriff.

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If Maggie can survive her own story, she might find

her heart’s rhythm again.