The night after Jared Ellis kisses her under the mistletoe, nineteen-year-old Sarah Naylor dreams she is standing by the window of Fairfield Hall, waiting for him to come to her. In her dream, she is wearing a pale green silk gown and meeting him as an equal, but in reality she is a servant at the Hall and Jared Ellis is the cousin of the owners wife. As a result, Sarah knows theres little chance that the dream will ever come true and even less chance after tragedy strikes on New Years Eve and she is forced to leave Fairfield. But some dreams are impossible to forget and, as Sarah starts a new life away from everything shes ever known, her dream and memories of Jared continue to haunt her thoughts, despite all her efforts to dismiss them.