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📚 Book 2 of a completed 4-book series
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A widow carrying an impossible secret meets a rancher nursing his own heartbreak in the vast Wyoming wilderness, and together they strike a practical bargain neither expects to change everything. Hannah needs a husband to survive the frontier and protect her unborn child, while Flint needs a wife—though his thoughts still linger on a woman he lost to his own brother. When these two wounded souls marry without pretense or promises of love, the real danger isn't the harsh landscape around them, but the secrets they're keeping that could shatter the fragile bond beginning to grow between them. Joan Johnston masterfully weaves a tale of second chances, where honesty becomes the ultimate test of whether two broken hearts can truly heal together.
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Rugged acoustic folk and slow-burn Americana for two guarded hearts finding solace in wild frontier landscapes. Think haunting melodies, fingerpicked guitars, and wistful vocals that capture longing, weathered resilience, and the quiet magic of second chances.
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