Can runaway Libby Cantrell finally get a new start? Libby Cantrell?s life has gone from bad to worse since her mother?s death. After working in a brothel to support her abusive father, she sees no hope for her future until one cold winter night when she finds the courage to escape. When she collapses in Portersfield, Texas, exhausted, ill, and hungry, Sheriff Cory Muldoon finds her and takes her to the doctor. Against Cory?s better judgment, Seth and Erin Winston take her in and offer her a job as a nanny for their young son. As a minister, Seth sees it as his duty to take care of her. As a deputy, Cory needs to know the truth about her even as he is attracted to the waif of a young woman.As Cory?s feelings for her grow and winter becomes spring, will he be able to accept her as she is now and truly forget and forgive her sordid past? Review ?Allow Martha Rogers?s tender voice to transport you to another time and place.? -Kim Vogel Sawyer, author of Song of My Heart About the Author Martha Rogers is the author of Becoming Lucy; Morning for Dove; Finding Becky; Caroline?s Choice; Not on the Menu, a part of a novella collection with DiAnn Mills, Janice Thompson, and Kathleen Y?Barbo; and River Walk Christmas, a novella collection with Beth Goddard, Lynette Sowell, and Kathleen Y?Barbo. A former schoolteacher and English instructor, she has a master?s degree in education and lives with her husband in Houston, Texas.