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The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging in Hunter Bell, a miniter who heads to Utah's gold-mining towns after his wife dies in childbirth. A man with nothing left to lose, he plays card tables for money to care for his young daughter back home. But in the heart of a driving blizzard, Hunter makes a shocking discovery--and begins to see that a life tested by unthinkingable cruelty can still be rich with faith, love, and hope for a better tomorrow...