Heart of Mercy (Tennessee Dreams #1)

Mercy Evans has known a great deal of heartache and hardship in her twenty-six years. She lost her

mother at a young age and was only sixteen when her

father was killed in 1880, in a brawl sparked by a family

feud spanning several generations. Yet Mercy never

doubts the presence and provision of her heavenly Father.

When a house fire claims the lives of her two best friends,

leaving their two young sons as orphans, Mercy offers to

be their guardian. It seems simple enough, until the judge

mandates that the boys be placed with a married couple.

Samuel Connors is a man adrift. Despite the success of

the blacksmith business he inherited from his father, he

senses a void unaffected by material rewards. His mother

keeps nagging him to find a wife, but the only woman

who comes to mind is Mercy Evans. What would she

want to do with the man whose father is now serving a

life sentence for the murder of hers?

Mercy is determined to do whatever it takes to win

custody of the Watson boys. But marry a mortal enemy

of the Evans family? God alone can give her the heart to

go through with it.