After choir practisc for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she hears is a tenor voice singing Silent Night.Several hours later, the police find Rose lying in a ditch. Badly beaten — but alive.As she recovers in hospital, Rose is told she’s pregnant. She has a terrible choice to make. She decides to keep the baby.Nine months later, she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. She names her Mary.Rose lives quietly in her small Connecticut hometown raising her daughter — the one good thing to come out of her horrible ordeal. She begins to get her old self back.But her evil attacker has never been caught. He strikes twice a year. Once on Christmas Eve, once on Christmas Day.And until he’s behind bars, Rose and her baby can never be safe.But now he’s found out he has a daughter. And that changes everything . . .
