title: The Heart of Winter: An Anthology
author:  Maggie Shayne 
description: RITA Award winning, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Maggie Shayne has publishedover 50 novels, including mini-series<em><strong>Wings in the Night </strong></em>(vampires), <em><strong>Secrets of Shadow Falls </strong></em>(suspense)and <em><strong>The Portal </strong></em>(witchcraft). A Wiccan High Priestess, tarot reader, advice columnist and former soap opera writer, Maggie lives in Cortland County, NY, with soulmate Lanceand theirfurry family.
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  Four love stories  
  in one great read
  
  
  
  
  
  Book One
  
  
  [WINTER’S COLD HEART](../Text/part0001.html#Book_One)
  
  
  Book Two
  
  
  [SPRING’S TENDER HEART](../Text/part0005_split_003.html#Book_Two)
  
  
  Book Three
  
  
  [SUMMER’S DISTANT HEART](../Text/part0009.html#Book_Three)
  
  
  Book Four
  
  
  [AUTUMN’S WILD HEART](../Text/part0012_split_000.html#Book_Four)
  
  
  
  
  
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  ©2021  
  ISBN 978-1-952911-13-2  
  Lincoln, Nebraska
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Only a poisonous rumor  
  stood between them.
  
  
  Could Lydia McDowell ignore an entire village and trust the shamed Doctor
  Jarvis? Or would doing so come at the cost of her brother’s life...and her own
  frozen heart?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  Lydia McDowell pulled the hood of her cloak lower over her face. Sleet mixed
  with wet snow pummeled her eyes and stung her cheeks. She could no longer see
  where she was going.
  
  
  Maybe she could use the storm as an excuse to return h