Returning to her family home after serving as a nurse in the Second World War, Kate Drew is unable to put her mind at rest. So much is as she left it - her parents are as loving to her and to each other as ever, the countryside is as welcoming and refreshing as she remembers. Is it simply that the years of conflict will be difficult to forget, or has the world changed for ever? Or is Kate's unease more personal than that? To put it bluntly, does she, or can she, love the man she is soon to marry - the fabulously wealthy, sometimes charming but often cold Gregory Roslyn?The situation becomes more complicated as she finds herself drawn to a considerate, handsome stranger, Hugh Graham. He, too, is already engaged to another. And the last thing she needs is an alternative marriage proposal from the seemingly odious local vicar! As her wedding day approaches, Kate's anxieties multiply.Through Mists of Darkness is an intelligent, sensitively told story of romance; of the uncertainties and aspirations of the heart; of decisions that have to be made between loyalty and blossoming new love.There was a great void in Phyllis M Snow's life when her husband died. She needed to keep busy and her children had their own families. Her daughter read something Phyllis had started writing years ago and said, 'Well, finish it - I want to know the end.' She did and has been scribbling ever since.