Heaven's Time — Susan Plunkett

Melissa Fuller thought she could get closer to heaven by being an astronaut. What she got instead was a meteorite shower that destroyed the satellite she was on --- and put an end to her life of loneliness and pain.

Washington Territory, 1887. Rory McCullough saw the falling star light up the night with the brilliance of a noon sun before it splashed into the lake beside his mountain home. From those cold waters he rescued a woman of ethereal beauty. He wrapped her in furs, nursed her back to health, and took her into his home. Weakened from her long earth-bound journey, she could not speak and did not understand how certain death had transformed into a new life --- and a promise of love...