Light on Snow

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I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams; unable to make the legs move fast enough. i ran to the place where he knelt. i looked down into the sleeping bag. a tiny face gazed up at me; the eyes wide despite their many folds. the baby was wrapped in a bloody towel; and its lips were blue.' the events of a december afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old nicky dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. written from the point of view of thirty-year-old nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful december; hers is a tale of love and courage; of tragedy and redemption; and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.