She came west to escape a marriage she never wanted. She never expected to find a man who might make her want to stay.
Josephine ‘Josie’ Goodwin has spent years proving that being deaf in one ear does not make her helpless. But to her wealthy, controlling father, her hearing loss is a shameful flaw—one he intends to conceal by marrying her to the son of a business associate.
Josie has other plans.
Answering an advertisement for a nurse in Wyoming Territory, she flees St. Louis for a frontier town where she hopes her skills will matter more than the secret she carries.
Dr. Everett Daniels needs a nurse more than he cares to admit. Three years after losing his wife and newborn son, the widowed doctor has buried his grief beneath endless work. Now his failing eyesight threatens the one thing he has left—his ability to heal.
Then Josie walks into his clinic.
She is determined, gifted…and far too easy to care about.
As they work side by side, Josie quietly compensates for Everett’s failing eyesight, while he becomes the first man to see her hearing loss without seeing her as less. Somewhere between desperate emergencies and quiet walks beneath Wyoming skies, two wounded hearts begin to heal.
But Josie has one secret she still cannot bring herself to confess.
She didn’t simply leave St. Louis—she ran from the man her father intends her to marry.
And when her father arrives in Wyoming determined to drag her home, Everett must decide whether her deception has destroyed his trust—or whether losing Josie would cost him far more.
Genre: Romance
Josephine ‘Josie’ Goodwin has spent years proving that being deaf in one ear does not make her helpless. But to her wealthy, controlling father, her hearing loss is a shameful flaw—one he intends to conceal by marrying her to the son of a business associate.
Josie has other plans.
Answering an advertisement for a nurse in Wyoming Territory, she flees St. Louis for a frontier town where she hopes her skills will matter more than the secret she carries.
Dr. Everett Daniels needs a nurse more than he cares to admit. Three years after losing his wife and newborn son, the widowed doctor has buried his grief beneath endless work. Now his failing eyesight threatens the one thing he has left—his ability to heal.
Then Josie walks into his clinic.
She is determined, gifted…and far too easy to care about.
As they work side by side, Josie quietly compensates for Everett’s failing eyesight, while he becomes the first man to see her hearing loss without seeing her as less. Somewhere between desperate emergencies and quiet walks beneath Wyoming skies, two wounded hearts begin to heal.
But Josie has one secret she still cannot bring herself to confess.
She didn’t simply leave St. Louis—she ran from the man her father intends her to marry.
And when her father arrives in Wyoming determined to drag her home, Everett must decide whether her deception has destroyed his trust—or whether losing Josie would cost him far more.
Genre: Romance
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