When he'd first popped through the shrubbery, nurse Kirby McKaslin had found her new neighbor brazen and obnoxious. So she was more than surprised to find Sam Gardner volunteering to pilot an early-morning medical emergency flight . . .and fixing her fence, making her cocoa when she couldn't sleep, even cooking dinner.
But when Sam took Kirby's hand in his, she wasn't surprised to find herself falling for him . . .
Then he gently removed his hand, and closed his wounded heart to her. After he'd shown her that faith and kindness could exist in a man, could Kirby convince him that despite his past, love wasn't gone for him -- forever?