Sara's Promise — Patricia Waddell

HER FAITH IN HIM...
A minister's daughter, Sara Waverly didn't question her dying father's wisdom when it called them west, although it meant facing certain hardship. Nor did she doubt him when he suggested gruff, imposing Jacob Talbert as the man she should marry. For the ghosts that haunted Jacob's silvery eyes called to her heart as strongly as his physical presence stirred the woman in her. Could Sara bridge the great divide between Jacob's painful past and the love she knew was their destiny?

...SET HIS HEART FREE
When Jacob discovered lovely young Sara backed against a wagon by four unscrupulous drifters, he was compelled to rescue her. A hardened man whose should had been wounded by war and prison, he found himself smitten with the petite beauty, who was as pure as he was tainted. Remarkably, she seemed drawn to him as well. But Jacob had one more battle to fight -- banishing the demons that guarded his heart, before he could claim the happiness promised by Sara's love...