Light on Snow is a beautiful contemporary bestseller by Anita Shreve that explores themes of love and memory. The story is recounted from the perspective of 30-year-old Nicky as she reflects on a vivid December day 19 years ago. On that day, she and her father discovered an abandoned infant in the snow, an event that forever altered her understanding of the world.

The narrative captures the essence of family, as twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her widowed father navigate the emotional aftermath of their discovery. As they encounter a young woman haunted by her own choices, they are faced with a thicket of decisions, each carrying possibilities of heartbreak and redemption.

With tender and surprising storytelling, Anita Shreve unfolds a tale of courage and the ways in which the human heart seeks to heal itself. This novel is set against the backdrop of snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home, adding a touch of winter wonder to the narrative.

Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America... to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.

What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find the key to survival.

At stake are a young girl of extraordinary goodness, a young boy with killers on his trail, and Micky's own wounded soul. Ahead lie incredible peril, startling discoveries, and paths that lead through terrible darkness to unexpected light.