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The Rancher's Second Chance
2013
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages

She's back and everything is the same except the boy next door. ( "Director's Cut!" - Revised second edition, first published in 2013 as The Rancher's Second Chance.) Laura Bell is looking for a second chance, not another romance. 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. Everything is the same at her family's hilltop home—except it isn't. And neither is the boy next door. He's grown into a sharp-edged former Marine with secret wounds of his own. Eli Hawthorne doesn't recognize the slicked-back city gal as his scrawny little tag-along from twelve years earlier. 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. Laura Bell is finally home. 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.

Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
83
5 STARS
41%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
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Author

Davalynn Spencer
Davalynn Spencer
Author · 11 books

Cowboys. 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. A background in rodeo journalism helps me add a bit of cowboy reality to those stories. 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. Along 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. For information on my cowboy brides - whether runaway or mail-order - sign up for my quarterly newsletter http://eepurl.com/xa81D. Connect with me at http://www.davalynnspencer.com and http://www.Facebook.com/AuthorDavalyn.... And for a visual peek at what I'm thinking when I write, check out the images collected at https://pinterest.com/davalynnspencer....

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