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She was sent away, forgotten, and nearly broken. But one stranger's kindness gave her something to hold on to.
When Megan Carter's mother dies in childbirth, her grieving father sends her East to live with a grandmother who despises the red-haired child who looks far too much like the woman she blames for her son's unhappiness.
Years of cruelty teach Megan to make herself small, useful, and unnoticed. Yet they never destroy her tender heart. She finds friendship among servants and street children and offers kindness wherever she can-even when precious little is offered to her.
Then an argument with her spoiled cousin ends with Megan being committed to the infamous Blackwood Asylum.
Terrified and alone, Megan clings to the memory of one unexpected moment of compassion: a handsome stranger who showed kindness to a frightened young woman when no one else would.
When her cousins finally help her escape, Megan discovers the existence of a letter that changes everything. Her father is dead-and the brothers she thought had forgotten her have been searching for her.
With little more than the clothes she wears and enough money to travel, Megan boards a train headed West.
Her journey brings unlikely friends, including a notorious gunslinger and his saloon-girl wife, before she finally reaches the frontier town her brothers now call home. There Megan discovers something she never expected.
She was never unwanted. She was loved all along.
There is only one complication.
Andrew, the local sheriff, has little patience for delicate Eastern women-and the stubborn redhead who has just arrived seems determined to challenge every assumption he has about them. Megan finds the maddening lawman equally difficult to tolerate.
Until they recognize each other.
He is the stranger whose kindness gave Megan hope during the darkest days of her life.
And she is the beautiful redhead Andrew has never been able to forget.
But Megan's past has followed her West. Her grandmother has no intention of allowing her to simply disappear, and the men sent to retrieve her are closing in.
Against the dangers of the frontier, old wounds, family secrets, and an enemy determined to drag Megan back to the life she escaped, Andrew and Megan will have to decide whether two wounded hearts are brave enough to trust something neither expected to find.
Home.
The Tender Heart is Book One of The Carter Saga, a sweeping historical Western romance series about family, resilience, second chances, and finding love where you least expect it.
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