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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.