Ice Glen December 10, 2006

Playwright Joan Ackermann sets her new romance at the end of the Gilded Age in a decaying, elegant Berkshire manse now for sale. Among the quirky family of servants soon to be evicted is Sarah Harding, a gifted and unknown poet enthralled with Stonegate's rolling countryside and wildlife. When neighbor Edith Wharton passes Sarah's poems on to a Boston publishing firm, editor Peter Woodburn comes calling. Though initially shocked at her refusal to have her words read by the public, Woodburn discovers a heart in her poetry, and in the Berkshires, that beats outside the commercial world -- in its own creative home.