Enchanted Snow — A.J. Cronin

Originally published in Redbook magazine (January 1940), ENCHANTED SNOW is A. J. Cronin's romantic and thrilling tale of Lewis Merrid, a young American shipping company owner, who, while traveling by train to Vienna, becomes irresistibly attracted to pale, frightened fellow-passenger Sylvia Ullwin. In trying to help the object of his affection, Merrid becomes involved in an adventure that unfolds atop the snowy peaks of Austria -- an adventure with unpredictable consequences that threatens not only Merrid, but Sylvia's father and her fiancé.