Speak Softly to My Soul — Dorothy Ann Bernard

Behind her lay a ruined romance and a glamorous city job she could no longer endure. Ann Taylor had come home to the Ohio farm determined to reclaim her roots and forget about love.

But one look at rugged Nathan Warner and her grim resolve failed. Behind his simple facade was a complex man trying to lose himself in passion without abandoning himself to love. She lost herself in his embrace, thrilling to his slightest touch. In his arms she was whole again... until she heard him cry another woman's name. He was the one man who could carry her into the future. Had Ann found him only to discover that he was irrevocably bound to the past?