Seattle debutant Sofi Andersson will do everything in her power to protect her sister who is suffering from delayed shock over their father's drowning. Charles the family busy-body threatens to place her sister in a sanatorium, a whitewashed term for an insane asylum.Like she has always done, Sofi will rescue her little sister, even if it means running away to the Cascade Mountains with only the new gardener Neil Macpherson, a handsome immigrant from Ireland, to protect them.But in a hidden cabin high in the Cascades, just as Sofi has her secrets, she recognizes her gardener does too. Can she trust this man whose gentle manner brings such peace to her traumatized sister, and such tumult to her own emotions?And can their gardener, Neil, continue to hide from Sofi that he is really Dr. Neil Galloway, wanted for murder and on the run from the British police?