Mending a Cowboy's Broken Heart: Forgiveness Collection, #1

By Grace Jacobson

Family means everything to Bodie, but after his wife left Wyoming for a city slicker from New York, his four year old daughter became a painful reminder of the betrayal. Struggling to be the father Savannah needs him to be, Bodie focuses his mind on running the family ranch for his beloved Grandma Hannah.

 

But when Grandma Hannah needs help around the house and caring for Bodie's daughter, she takes in Elizabeth, an out-of-towner from California who fell on hard times. Grateful for the employment opportunity, she strives to prove her worth around the home and is instantly welcomed by everyone on the R&J Ranch, except Bodie.

 

Can Elizabeth mend Bodie's broken heart for his daughter's sake? Can Bodie forgive the betrayal of the past and embrace a future with a woman who is everything he ever hoped for?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grace Jacobson
• Release date: Jan 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393211884

Grace Jacobson

Grace Jacobson is a hopeless romantic who loves Love Stories. Even as a little girl, she clung to the idea of true love's power to redeem and restore. God has someone special picked out for everyone, and the beauty of love shines like a beacon of light.

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Chapter One

Bodie

Bodie dusted off his boots at the front door and headed inside. The hour was late and he tried not to wake his grandmother Hannah and daughter Savannah. After a long day working at the ranch, Bodie was tired. He knew his grandmother would have worked hard in the kitchen to provide a meal for him and his brother to enjoy.

No matter how good the meal, he could never fully enjoy it. The cooking and cleaning and caring for his daughter should have been his wife Kim's job. She had left him a few years back for some city slicking man named Matt that promised to make her a star in New York City, leaving him and their daughter behind.

When she had left him, he waited a long time before pursuing a divorce in the hopes that she would come to her senses and return to his loving arms and the life they were supposed to share on the ranch in Wyoming.

She never did. After a time, hope turned to disappointment, turned to anger. Not a violent man, he turned that disappointment and anger into hard work, but it still ate away at him day after day after day.

Every time he entered the house, her absence hit him hard. The meal that his grandmother lovingly cooked with her tired and achy hands. The spotlessness of the house that was a product of his grandmother's hard work and dedication to helping him care for his daughter.

A few years back, he and his twin brother James stepped in to take over when Grandmother Hannah was on the verge of losing the ranch. Around the same time, he and Kim got married and soon after had Savannah. At the age of three, she was the pride and joy of the family with her sunny, blonde hair and misty blue eyes, how she reminded him of his ex-wife.

Because of this fact, he often found looking at her to be difficult. In some ways, he had an even harder time spending time with her because of the constant reminder of the love he lost.

Bodie pushed the pain aside most days, spending a few moments watching her play in the great room after lunch: before she went to take a nap. He loved her with all his heart, the way she would wrap her arms around his neck and hold on tight, the wet kisses she planted on his cheek, even her bossy toddler ways.

Tonight, grandmother had prepared a meal of meatloaf with his favorite mashed potatoes, corn and cornbread. The house was quiet, and James was still wrapping things up, so he went ahead and dug into his meal at the large table in the dining room.

Savannah is fast asleep? His grandmother bustled in with a load of wash in her hands that she had just folded, setting it on the table.

I’m sorry I missed saying goodnight to her. I will try to get up here earlier tomorrow. He dug in