The Rancher's Second Chance by Davalynn Spencer

“We all bear scars of some type, but with God’s healing touch, we survive and grow. “You're not defined by your injuries, Eli Hawthorne.” I'm always thankful when I come across a story that impacts me and shares godly wisdom to apply to my life. This book was especially meaningful to me because it was a timely reminder, that although the future can be scary and unknown, Jesus promises to never leave us. I was captivated from the first chapter and enjoyed this engaging tale filled with faith, adventure, and romance. The cast of characters and adorable pets were authentic and realistic. The story is filled with such vivid descriptions of ranching life and the beautiful landscape that I could truly picture the surroundings as I read the story. The Miracle Tree is a beautifully written inspirational book. And for a visual peek at what I'm thinking when I write, check out the images collected at. The Rocky Mountains offer rich settings for my historical novels, from actual cities with Wild West history to fictional towns tucked into the fold where granite ramparts meet grassy plains.Īlong with Blue the Cowdog and mouse detectors Annie and Oakley, I've also collected three 'Bestseller' labels for novellas in Barbour collections, and a Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Western Inspirational Fiction.įor information on my cowboy brides - whether runaway or mail-order - sign up for my quarterly newsletter. A background in rodeo journalism helps me add a bit of cowboy reality to those stories. Gotta love 'em, right? That's why I married one - and write about others and their sweethearts, whether they live in 1800s Colorado or on a modern California ranch. But he's half a man now, and his scars may be too much for her to accept.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.Ĭowboys. Yet 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.)

She's back and everything is the same except the boy next door.

The Rancher's Second Chance by Davalynn Spencer