Healing Hearts

Schoolteacher Tessa Stranridge needs a means of financial support in order to live in Hill Creek. A friend offers her the solution to her predicament of opening up her home to local accident victim, Drake Slater. Her responsibilities would include attending to his needs and teaching him how to read again. Upon meeting Drake, she is surprised to realize how handsome he is. Before her is a man capable of reeking havoc in her calm, ordinary world.Drake Slater was gravely injured when he was thrown from his horse and savagely attacked by a raging bull. He relies upon the assistance of Tessa Stranridge in rebuilding his life. Tessa is able to feed his newly-found, spiritual hunger, with knowledge that has been foreign to him for so long. With her calm, tranquil nature, she is the type of medicine he finds himself craving in order to make a successful recovery.Cheryl Wolverton seems to write with a higher power guiding her pen. Her extensive talent enables the reader to fully appreciate the story as it unfolds. I enjoyed the characters of Tessa and Drake. I found it very memorable that Tessa was able to look past the outward scars that Drake had and concentrate more on healing the inner ones. This book is for anyone that appreciates the treasure that love is capable of providing.

If you love the Christian message in steeplehill books...you'll love this one...Excellent message to those who have had a broken heart! loved it and shared it with my friends!

Hurting and hiding from her past, Tessa Stanridge enjoys teaching children in Hill Creek, Texas. Working with children is safe, a place she doesn't have to risk her feelings. Little does she realize that is about to change.Sexy Single Rancher who was innjured when a bull did a two step on him, Drake Slater is working to recover from near death. Learning to walk and talk is only a small part of what he has to accomplish. He also has to re-learn to read.With his newfound faith and his new teacher--Tessa, (who needs the money of a summer job and is coerced into teaching him), Drake has no idea the impact he's about to make in the teacher's life. Nor the impact she'll make in his.This is a love story about faith and rediscovering your first love. The zany secondary characters are back along with Tessa's on fetish for animals--a veritable zoo in her home of lizards and a cat and puppy, Myrtle the turtle, a parrot and the list goes on. A touch of humor combined with the gentle developing relationship as both people heal--physically and emotionally--make this one of my favorite books so far.