The Warrior's Guarded Heart: A Sweeping Native American Historical Western Romance Novel of Healing, Loyalty, and Unexpected Love

He buried his heart alongside the woman he lost. He never expected anyone to dig it back up. Coal Runner has spent five years honoring a grief he built his entire life around, a warrior and protector who told himself he would never risk that kind of loss again. When a railroad company arrives with forged documents and a scheme to steal Windrider land, the last person he expects to need is a prejudiced schoolteacher fresh off the eastern stagecoach. Grace Kimball came west to teach arithmetic, not to fall in love with the very culture her upbringing taught her to fear. But as she uncovers the fraud threatening to destroy an entire community, she finds herself standing beside a guarded warrior who is slowly teaching her that everything she thought she knew about this land, and about her own heart, was wrong. As danger closes in and Coal Runner is forced to face a grief he has never fully allowed himself to feel, both of them must decide whether love is worth the risk of losing everything all over again. A sweeping historical western romance about healing old wounds, choosing courage over fear, and learning that love does not erase what came before. It simply makes room for what comes next. Book Two in the Windrider Chronicles. Can be read as a standalone.