The Cripple’s Bride (Family of Love Series) (A Western Romance Story)

Page Count: Approx more than 260 pages.

A broken heart and leg…a lonely and beautiful loner…and a battered woman who has lost her grip on sanity…

Daryl Parker didn’t things could get any worse than his beloved Laura, who he was about to propose to, running off with another man in the middle of the night. However, when his wagon is stuck in a snowstorm and he falls down into a ravine, he knows that it has just done that. Things are far worse than he could have imagined, and only his faith in God will bring him to the light shining in a lonely cottage window.

Rachel has never been one to chase men, except perhaps to chase them away, as she will only say yes to the man of her dreams. When he literally shows up on her doorstep only one breath away from death, it seems, she knows that the Lord is smiling on her at last. That is, if she can nurse him through the night and find a doctor.

In order for the two to pursue the romantic connection they make almost instantly, Rachel has to find a way to help Daryl recover from his life-threatening injuries. One leg is broken, his arm is gashed open, and a hidden injury causes a fever that could steal him away just as she’s beginning to think he’ll survive. In addition, a strange woman with two young children in tow is in town claiming to be his wife, though he’s never mentioned the woman before.

Rachel must make a choice—is the handsome stranger a dastardly man trying to shirk his familial responsibilities—or the victim of a crazy set of circumstances that no one ever could have predicted?

Has Daryl finally found the perfect salve for his body and soul—or will the woman he left behind ruin his happiness at last with her insane cries for attention?