Usually they get over watered, and die off. Here in zone 9 they can be planted in the garden in a mostly shady area. They do disappear until next winter when they start growing again and they will flower again. If your soil is very well drained, you may be able to plant yours in the garden, digging it before the freezing weather and repotting it. Al

Al is right about the overwatering - they are sensitive to it, but they also use a lot of water while they are blooming as the flowers unfurl, so it can be tricky to find the right watering schedule. Also, the average home is really too warm for Cyclamen to last very long - they want daytime temperatures between 60 and 70 and nighttime temperatures between 50 and 55 to do their best. If it's too warm at night, they stop setting buds. If you can provide the right temperature balance, you can keep it blooming, in your zone I would think, until May. Pick off any flowers or leaves that dry up.

If you do want to keep it, cut down on the watering once it stops blooming, and water just enough to keep the foliage from wilting. This may result in a couple of panicked moments when you walk in and the whole plant is flat with the leaves flopped over the side of the pot, but Cyclamen is forgiving, and will recover from a few of those without too much damage (as long as it's not blooming at the time - let it dry out to that point when there are a bunch of buds setting, and the buds will dry up). Come the warm weather, it will stop growing completely and die back so all you have is the tuber in the pot. Put pot with tuber in your basement or the coolest dark place you have and don't water at all. When you start getting night-time temperatures in the low 60's, repot in fresh soil, put it outside and start watering. It will grow lots of leaves and flowers (although probably won't be as flashy as when it was purchased from the greenhouse grower) and can stay outside until you're getting temperatures quite near freezing - they will actually do fine through a light freeze, although flower buds that are close to blooming may be damaged. When it gets too cold, bring it in to enjoy in a sunny cool window and start all over again.

- Steve

Thanks for the responses. I will see what i can do...and hope it lives!