The Rancher's Second Chance by Davalynn Spencer

What is the most important thing you feel you can teach your students? What have you learned from them?Ĭommunication is key, and to enjoy communicating is to make it a golden key. You’re also a writing instructor at a community college. Maybe it was the combination of those things and his love for the Lord that won me over. I don’t know if it was the dark eyes, the cowboy hat, or the smell of hay on his chest when he came in from his part-time job at the feedlot. I fell in love with and married a cowboy years ago, and life has been a rodeo ever since. The first book I wrote was a romantic-suspense with a cowboy/deputy hero and it just came naturally to cast the next book, Rancher, with a cowboy. What sparked your interest in writing Western Romance novels? Scars and identity are themes in the story, as is God’s promise to make all things new if we let Him. He has his own wounds to deal with, deep scars from his tour of duty in Afghanistan. But Eli keeps showing up outside and in her thoughts. Laura moves back into her old family home with no expectations and a deep desire to heal. When she returns a dozen years later after a failed engagement, that boy, Eli Hawthorne III, is still there. Laura left behind not only memories of her dad and their hilltop acreage, but also the rancher’s boy across the fence and all her hero-worshipping, twelve-year-old heart. Laura Bell and her mother moved from their country home when Laura’s father died. Let’s talk about The Rancher’s Second Chance (Heartsong Presents/Steeple Hill, August 2013). Read a previous interview with Davalynn here. She and her husband make their home in Colorado. Davalynn’s most recent Heartsong Presents novel, The Rancher’s Second Chance, released earlier this month. She also teaches writing at a community college and often speaks at conferences, retreats, and women’s events. Together they just might fill the empty places in their hearts and find the love of a lifetime.Davalynn Spencer is an award-winning journalist who contributes a column to the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, as well as the Cañon City Daily Record, her local newspaper. But the battle-scarred soldier is a world away from the carefree boy he once was. Yet the bond they once shared has only deepened with time.Įli never gave up hoping that someday Laura would return to their small ranching town in the California foothills. Twelve years apart has changed Eli Hawthorne. Now, hurting from a broken engagement and fed up with city life, Laura returns to her family's ranch. Twelve years ago she left her home behind-but she could never forget the boy next door. The Rancher's Second Chance is book #1060 of the Heartsong Presents line.

The Rancher's Second Chance by Davalynn Spencer