Winter Is Past

by Ruth Axtell Morren

Published 1 December 2003
Simon Aguilar, a rising MP of Sephardic Jewish origin, falls in love with Althea Breton, a Methodist nurse who's the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Althea cares for Simon's dying daughter and puts his household in order. Against the backdrop of the glittering ballrooms and the quiet parlors of Regency England comes a man's remarkable journey of love and faith.