Twelve years apart has changed Eli Hawthorne. Now, hurting from a broken engagement and fed up with city life, Laura returns to her family's ranch. Laura and Eli have a chance to fill the empty places in each other’s heart unless pride keeps Eli from trusting God and fear blinds Laura to the miracle she’s been looking for in the boy she left behind. Twelve years ago she left her home behindbut she could never forget the boy next door. But he’s half a man now, and his scars may be too much for her to accept. But when his dog, Goldie, leads him to her at the base of the old burned-out oak tree, a teenage boy’s unanswered prayers come rushing back. He’s grown into a sharp-edged former Marine with secret wounds of his own.Įli Hawthorne doesn’t recognize the slicked-back city gal as his scrawny little tag-along from twelve years earlier. Everything is the same at her family’s hilltop home-except it isn’t. Devastated by her husband’s infidelity, the resulting divorce, and her mother’s lost battle with cancer, she comes home to the Sierra Nevada foothills to heal and start over. Laura Bell is looking for a second chance, not another romance.
(“Director’s Cut” - Revised second edition, first published in 2013 as The Rancher’s Second Chance.) and ends up a ranchers wife facing snakes, scoundrels, and second chances.
Laura and Eli have a chance to fill the empty places in each other’s heart unless pride keeps Eli from trusting God and fear blinds Laura to the miracle she’s been looking for in the boy she left behind.She’s back and everything is the same except the boy next door. Western romance author Davalynn Spencer is partial to telling the cowboys. But when his dog, Goldie, leads him to her at the base of the old burned-out oak tree, a teenage boy’s unanswered prayers come rushing back. This week Im hosting Julianna Deering with Rules of Murder (US only), Davalynn Spencer with The Ranchers Second Chance, Liz Tolsma with Snow on the Tulips.
She’s back and everything is the same except the boy next door.
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