Rescuing Her Heart (Healing Hearts)

About the Author\nCindy Ervin Huff is a multi-published, award-winning author and 2019 Selah finalist. All the characters who live in her head find their way into her romances. Her passions are reading, watching Hallmark-ish movies, and eating chocolate. Talking to strangers is her secret hobby, and a vacation equals museums and historical sites. Healing Hearts, her novella and prequel to Rescuing Her Heart, is included in The Smitten Romance Collection, The Cowboys.\nAs her husband’s evil deeds haunt a mail-order bride from the grave, can she learn to trust again and open her heart to true love?\nOn visitation rounds as a lay preacher, the last thing rancher Jed Holt expects is to be shot at from the barn next to a burned-down homestead. But the soot-covered woman hiding inside needs protecting, and Jed is the man to do it whether she likes it or not. Delilah James’s nightmares began when she came to Kansas as a mail-order bride. Her husband was nothing like his letters. Now that he is dead, she can’t shake his abuse from her heart. Trusting men tops her never-again list and taking a job on the Holt ranch as a housekeeper is a means to save money and bring her parents west. But her attraction to the compassionate former chaplain both angers and confuses her.\nJed has his own nightmares from a POW camp and understands Delilah better than she knows. Can two broken people form a forever bond?