<P>'As you read my story there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain—past present and that still to come—I wouldn't have done anything differently. Nor would I trade the time I had with him for anything—except for what in the end I traded it for.'</P><P>Beth Cardall has a secret. For 18 years she has had no choice but to keep it to herself but on Christmas Eve 2008 all that is about to change.</P><P>For Beth 1989 was a year marked by tragedy. Her life was falling apart: her six-year-old daughter Charlotte was suffering from an unidentifiable illness; her marriage transformed from a seemingly happy and loving relationship to one full of betrayal and pain; her job at the dry cleaners was increasingly at risk; and she had lost any ability to trust to hope or to believe in herself. Then on Christmas Day as she rushed through a blizzard to the nearest 7-Eleven Beth encountered Matthew a strikingly handsome mysterious stranger who would single-handedly change the course of her life.</p><P>Who is this man and how does he seem to know so much about her? He pursues her relentlessly and only after she's fallen deeply in love with him does she learn his incredible secret changing the world as she knows it as well as her own destiny.</P><P>From the <I>New York Times</I> best-selling author of the beloved classics <I>The Christmas Box</I> and <I>The Christmas List</I> comes a breathtaking story of the transcendent power of love.</P><P>A Simon & Schuster audio production.</P>