Grace is a new arrival to the mountainous beauty of the Colorado Rockies. Haunted by a lifetime of memory lapsess, she is determined to start fresh and make the most of her new position as administrator of a local girl's school. Her heart was what initially compelled her to come here, but when she tries to remember the practical reasons for the change, her head begins to pund with a searing pain that dissuades her from thinking further. Only her close relationship with the girls at the school can distract Grace from the cold and compensate for five lost years of her own childhood. That - and singing. For it was Grace's song that first summoned Pierce Rourke into her newly burgeoning life - the handsome Denver architect who was also the first person in years that was able to hold her, drive away the cold, and bring the pieces of her shattered past flying back to her.