When Ruth overhears the highwaymen discussing murdering one of the Star Elite, she knows she has to do something to save the unsuspecting victim. Blizzards stop her from fetching the magistrate, and with nobody in the village she can trust Ruth has to try to rescue him herself. With help from an unexpected quarter, she puts herself in a very perilous and scandalous situation! What she doesn't expect is for Elias to plunge her into the most danger she has ever been in. She finds herself quickly surrounded by a completely different set of problems to the ones that have been making her miserable. Can she find the strength to embrace them, or will her doubts and fears cost her Elias forever?