Éomer of Rohan returns to Gondor to visit his sister and Faramir in Emyn Arnen. There also he finds a changed Lothíriel, or a changing Lothíriel - something unexpected and inconvenient, anyway. Amidst diplomatic disasters, chats about the weather, and the fair woods of Ithilien, Lothíriel ponders what she wants in life, and Éomer must decide what he wants in love.

Set in the North in the 1860's, at the start of the Civil War. Gone with the Wind themes throughout. Sansa is a young woman from a prestigious family, Sandor is a roguish man of questionable background. How will the war bring these two together? (Rating may change later).

He was haunted by what he'd failed to do. He'd not been granted a night of sleep without seeing her—not the Little Bird in her radiance, the object of his affection, the focal point of his desires, but the beaten child—the little girl with cuts and gashes meant only for men, the prisoner, the captive. And now he was stuck with his prayers. That is, until she finds him.