The Windswept Flame

Book excerpt: Brokenirreparably broken. The violent deaths of her father and the young man she'd been engaged to marry, had irrevocably broken Cedar Dale's heart. Her mother's heart had been broken, as wellshattered by the loss of her own true love. Thus, pain and anguishfear and despairfound Cedar Dale, and her mother Flora, returned to the small western town where life had once been happy and filled with hope. Perhaps there, Cedar and her mother would find some resemblance of truly living lifeinstead of merely existing. And then, a chance meeting with a dream from her pastcaused a flicker of wonder to ignite in her bosom.As a child, Cedar Dale had adored the handsome rancher's son, Tom Evans. And when chance brought her face-to-face with the object of her childhood fascination once more, Cedar Dale began to believe that perhaps her fragmented heart could be healed.Yet, could Cedar truly hope to win the regard of such a man above men as was Tom Evans? A man kept occupied with hard work and ambitiona man so desperately sought after by seemingly every woman?