Heart She Trusted

When Ava Lang stepped down from the stagecoach in Providence Ridge, she prayed for a willing heart and a plainer way of living. God had led her close to one hundred miles into the high Montana country to teach children who'd never had a schoolroom-and she trusted He had good reason for it.

Wade Pemberton is exactly the kind of steady, honest tradesman a town trusts with to build it's first schoolhouse and church. He is not the kind of match a bank president imagines for his eldest daughter-and he knows it. But his motherless daughter has begun praying aloud for the very thing Wade won't let himself name-and grace, it turns out, does not always wait to be invited in.

When old wounds and older pride turn against the very thing they've come to want, Ava and Wade must decide what love is worth-and whose approval they can finally learn to live without.