Audio Book Description:
Etna Bliss has just moved to the New England town where her uncle teachescollege when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in ahotel downtown when a fire forces her toescape to the snowy streets outside. Amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed, standing under astreetlight, by a man who was dining in the same room - a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal:to marry Etna Bliss. That man is Nicholas Van Tassel, and all he everwanted is his account ofhow twolives changed from thattumultuous night forward. A proud and orderly man, Van Tasselis ill equipped to deal with the ferocity of love. But he is determined to have Etna, no matterwhat the cost. Riding a train south manyyears later, he unwindshis memories of the drama that followed and struggles tounderstand the mystery his life becameon that night.
