Centuries ago, by a scaffold in Manhattan, rose petals drifted gently to the ground......like snow on a wintry Massachusetts night. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a manclad in Revolutionary War-era costumeappears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car. Shaken, she takes the injured stranger in, listening with concern to Jake Mallorys fantastic claim that hes a Patriot soldier, sentenced to death by British authorities. The last thing he remembers is the tug of the noose.Safe at her parents house, Melody concocts a story to explain the handsome holiday guest with the courtly manners, strange clothes and nasty bump on the head. Mark, her close friend who wishes he were more, is skeptical and her family is fascinatedthough not half so fascinated as Melody herself.
