The Letter Left: The Healing Hearts Ranch, #1

By Angela Ford

A story of remembrance, a gift, and a love rediscovered through healing hearts.

Angela Ford takes a different direction this time to bring you a new adult series. A story centered around family, horses, true love, and finding your way from the wise words left to you.

Jack Willows was a great man. He always put others first. He'd taught his granddaughter to do the same. Raine Willows left her grandfather's farm at eighteen to find her way in life. Seven years later, his death brings her back to the farm and her first love–the boy next door.

An empowering story of healing through horses. A farm that introduced her to the boy next door–Luke Daniels. The one she could never forget, no matter how many years and miles came between them. Grief reunites them, horses help heal their hearts, and gives them an idea to help others. An idea that had been her grandfather's dream for her. The letter he left, changed the direction of her life and her heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books To Go Now
• Release date: Jul 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393604112

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DEDICATION

Dedicated to Shaylyn. The most beautiful soul and strongest woman I know. I’m so proud to be your Mom. I love you Boo! To the Moon and Back!

Copyright

The Letter Left

The Healing Hearts Book 1

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Copyright © Angela Ford 2019

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Other stories by Angela Ford

Closure, Unforgettable Kiss, The Christmas Wreath, Forbidden, Blind Tasting, Christmas Treasure, Christmas in Tuscany, Surrender, Spellbound Cinderella, Time to Love, Love Again, BARE, Obsessed, Cyber Crime Series, Felt by the Heart, Christmas Country Wishes, Seaside Seduction, Chrissy’s Christmas Sugar Cookies, Revealed, Christmas Back Home, Romantic Escapes, Love on Tour

Excerpt from The Letter Left

Jack wanted me to give this to you after his death.

Raine felt the moisture build in her eyes. With trembling fingers, she took it from Luke’s hand. She stood for a moment in silence. She didn’t know if she could read the last words from her grandfather.

Luke pulled a chair out from the table and motioned for Raine to take a seat. I’ll give you some time to read that in private.

Raine smiled. Thank you. She appreciated the respect he offered while she read her grandfather’s letter. He nodded and placed the letter opener on the table and made his way up the back staircase.

Raine reached for the opener and let it slide across the sealed letter. Slowly, she opened the neatly folder paper to find her grandfather’s writing. As she read the words he’d left her with, a solemn tear fell down her cheek. The lump in her throat gave her the sensation it would not be a single tear, but she fought hard against the urge to cry. She needed to relax her tangled thoughts to read his words to her.

Chapter One

Raine’s phone chimed away in the distance. The disturbance continued as she attempted to return to a world she’d escaped just a few hours before. Thirty-six hours straight at the hospital, she’d hoped for at least eight hours of sleep. Heck! She’d taken six. Without removing her sleep mask to view the displayed call, she cleared her throat and answered.

Yes, this is Raine Willows.

Hi Raine, it’s Lisa Gardner. I wish I didn’t have to tell you.

Raine knew the name. She’d expected the hospital not the nursing home. Nurse Gardner lowered the pitch of her next words. Raine sat up quickly and pulled her mask to the top of her head. She knew the call would come yet she still hadn’t prepared herself for the news. For the past eighteen months she’d visited him weekly. First, the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, then the cancer. His health quickly deteriorated before her eyes. Each visit became more difficult than the last. He didn’t know who she was, and she barely recognized him.

The once broad-shouldered man of strength and wisdom, who had taken in a lost little girl and raised her into a vibrant young woman, became the frail, dying man. Her grandfather told her she’d been a miracle to survive the tragic accident that took her parents from her. Nightmares of that night slowed, and her heart healed with his help and the love of the horses he’d introduced her to. Now she’d have to face the world alone. Jack Willows was gone.

WITHIN AN HOUR, RAINE arranged coverage for her shifts at the hospital and the patients she’d devoted her life to. She tossed some clothes in a suitcase. She kept busy. She didn’t want the tears to start with the drive ahead of her. Before she left she made one call. Her grandfather’s best friends, Tom and Ellen Baker, were like family. She knew they’d want her to stay with them. Tom’s voice calmed her when he answered. Familiar. She needed that. Raine only wished she could hear her grandfather’s voice. Just once more.

Raine, I’m so sorry. Jack was a good man. The best.

Tears she’d fought to this point began to stream like the creek that ran along her grandfather’s farm. Or whoever