Where Love Becomes Home
(2026)(The third book in the Everheart Ridge series)
A novel by Kathleen Ball
She came west to marry a stranger. Before she could meet him, outlaws took her captive.
Nora has spent her life learning one painful lesson: never grow too attached to anyone, because everyone eventually leaves. Raised in an orphanage and accustomed to being overlooked, she agrees to become a bride in faraway New Mexico, praying the husband waiting for her will be a kind man.
She never expects to be abducted during a bank robbery before she can even meet him.
Croix Hegarty wanted a wife to ease the loneliness of his isolated homestead. Instead, his new bride arrives shaken but determined—and discovers that Croix's home already includes three orphaned children who desperately need a family.
Ben, Bridget, and little Liam quickly work their way into Nora's carefully guarded heart. So does their handsome, gentle protector.
Just as Nora begins to believe she has finally found the home she's always longed for, a cruel relative appears with a legal claim to the children.
And he isn't interested in giving them a loving home.
When the children are taken away, disturbing secrets begin to surface. Stolen silver. Missing tools. Dangerous outlaws. An illegal mine. And evidence that Ben and Bridget may be caught in the middle of something far more dangerous than anyone imagined.
Now Croix and Nora must fight for the children they've come to love—and for the unexpected marriage that's becoming very real.
Because Nora has finally discovered something worth risking her heart for.
A family of her own. A man she loves. And a place where love becomes home.
Filled with marriage of convenience, mail-order bride, protective hero, found family, orphaned children, frontier danger, faith, emotional healing, and slow-burn romance, Where Love Becomes Home is a heartwarming historical western romance about choosing love even when loving means having something precious to lose.
Return to Everheart Ridge, where wounded hearts find hope, strangers become family, and love can turn even the loneliest place into home.
Genre: Inspirational
Nora has spent her life learning one painful lesson: never grow too attached to anyone, because everyone eventually leaves. Raised in an orphanage and accustomed to being overlooked, she agrees to become a bride in faraway New Mexico, praying the husband waiting for her will be a kind man.
She never expects to be abducted during a bank robbery before she can even meet him.
Croix Hegarty wanted a wife to ease the loneliness of his isolated homestead. Instead, his new bride arrives shaken but determined—and discovers that Croix's home already includes three orphaned children who desperately need a family.
Ben, Bridget, and little Liam quickly work their way into Nora's carefully guarded heart. So does their handsome, gentle protector.
Just as Nora begins to believe she has finally found the home she's always longed for, a cruel relative appears with a legal claim to the children.
And he isn't interested in giving them a loving home.
When the children are taken away, disturbing secrets begin to surface. Stolen silver. Missing tools. Dangerous outlaws. An illegal mine. And evidence that Ben and Bridget may be caught in the middle of something far more dangerous than anyone imagined.
Now Croix and Nora must fight for the children they've come to love—and for the unexpected marriage that's becoming very real.
Because Nora has finally discovered something worth risking her heart for.
A family of her own. A man she loves. And a place where love becomes home.
Filled with marriage of convenience, mail-order bride, protective hero, found family, orphaned children, frontier danger, faith, emotional healing, and slow-burn romance, Where Love Becomes Home is a heartwarming historical western romance about choosing love even when loving means having something precious to lose.
Return to Everheart Ridge, where wounded hearts find hope, strangers become family, and love can turn even the loneliest place into home.
Genre: Inspirational