Hannah Trevor's fierce independence and disregard for convention sets her apart from the other women of her small town in Maine in 1786. Yet as a midwife, Hannah is intimately involved in the lives of people deeply scarred by the terrible War of Independence against the English. Now in the midst of a merciless winter, a young wife and mother has been murdered, and in a heartbreaking note, written as she died, she named her three attackers. And one of them is Daniel Josselyn - a wealthy Englishman, a wounded war veteran, and Hannah's secret lover...
