title: Until the Spring
author: Raife, Alexandra
description: Emotionally rich and hauntingly evocative, Alexandra Raife's contemporary novels have earned her comparisons to Rosamunde Pilcher and Barbara Erskine--and in this compelling new story of family and fate, she returns once again to the fiercely beautiful terrain of today's Scottish Highlands. In this remote landscape, in a rambling, ramshackle house, a family offers shelter and solace to a fragile young woman who is devastated by a disastrous love affair. But as she grows accustomed to her new life over a rugged Highland winter, she finds the strength to survive a heartbreaking loss--and in the arms of a brusque but tender man, she finds a new season of hope....