What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow filled woods near their home. Through the days that follow, Nicky, her father, and a visitor who unexpectedly arrives at their doorstep - a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices - face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction. Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.