title: A Gift Beyond Price
author: Seger, Maura
description: A Gift Beyond Price...
  
  Freedom was one such gift. Having grown up in the vast spaces of Wyoming, Erin Hennessey had always known and appreciated it. For Mikhail Demertov, though, it was a rare and precious privilege. Mikhail was newly freed from a Siberian prison when he met Erin, whose efforts had, in part, earned his liberty.
  
  How ironic, then, that, despite the Christmas season, she was afraid to give him the greatest gift of all: her love. For though he pledged his freely in return, might not it, too, one day become his prison?