A Hero at Heart — Ann Howard White

THE BEST MAN

Strong, honorable, compassionate - Nathan Garner was a good man, and a man to be reckoned with. But somewhere along the way, he'd lost his faith. In himself...and in love. He'd returned home to find peace, but what he discovered there was the one woman who had the power to rattle his self-control and inflame a desire that hadn't dimmed with time.

The woman who should have been his wife...

In the past, like now, Rachel Holcomb stirred Nathan 's protective instincts...and his very soul. But Nathan had always believed Rachel deserved better - she deserved a hero. And now, with the fight of her life on her hands, Rachel had turned to him. Could he be Rachel's hero, after all!