A Place in My Heart — Betty Brooks

HER PAST WAS A MYSTERY

She was all but dead when he dragged her from the raging river. When she woke days later in his Texas farmhouse, the only clue she had was a bracelet that said "Jess." Who she was, where she'd come from, and how she came to be floundering in the flooding Colorado River were mysteries no amount of questioning could answer. Soon, life with Rafe and his children became the only life she knew -- and was cautiously learning to love -- when her presence ignited scandal in town. Now folks were demanding that she marry or make her way back into a world that held untold dangers and no memories.

HER FUTURE WAS IN HIS HANDS

When Rafe pulled the pale, limp woman from the river, all he could think of was his wife and the unbearable pain of her death. It seemed impossible to him that he could ever love again, or that he could risk the loss of someone close, someone precious like Jessie. But then she showed him that he still needed the tender touch of a woman -- one who could help heal his wounds. And when the man who could reveal the secrets of Jessie's past appeared before him, Rafe knew he would risk everything -- even life itself -- for the beautiful stranger who had made her home in his heart ....