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This novel is fiction. Nevertheless, when love challenges greed, wealth, and the citadels of power, we often find the sword brandished that cuts deep to snuff out the spark of love before it becomes a fire that will illumine the world. History has become littered with such swords of countless types and has been blackened by the darkness they created. Still, the spark of love remains in spite of the darkness, and so does its promise. When things become so unbelievably evil that no one will believe them, then they will likely happen as it does in the novel amidst the snows of Siberia in winter. And still love prevails. Love comes with a promise worth fighting for. - The novel presented here in preliminary edition is Episode 7 of the epic series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose.