About The Loyal Heart:
Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places.
Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his everything.
After the war, Robert is left to pick up the pieces and fulfill his pact. When he arrives at Miranda's home in Galveston, Texas, things are worse than he imagined. Phillip's name has been dragged through the mud, everyone in town believes him to be a traitor, and his widow is treated as an outcast. Even more disturbing is her emotional well-being. Miranda seems hopeless, lost, and so very alone.
Robert had thought his duty would be simple. He would help Miranda as quickly as possible in order to honor a promise. But the moment Robert laid eyes on her, his plans changed. He's mesmerized by her beauty and yearns to help her in any way he can.
He makes it his duty to protect Miranda, turn her reputation around, and to find some way to help her smile again. But it doesn't prove to be an easy task---Robert knows something about Phillip that could shake Miranda to the core and alter her view of the man she thought she knew so well.
My thoughts:
The Loyal Heart is the first book of Shelley's new A Lone Star Hero's Love Stories series. The story opens with Confederate soldiers who are in prison on Johnson Island. They make a pact to help one another when they are released, forward to a couple of years after the war where the widow of one of the soldiers needs help. Robert arrives and discovers how Miranda has lost all hope so he does whatever he can to help her situation.
While the story mainly focuses on Robert and Miranda, it does go back to wartime when the soldiers were imprisoned so we can understand the bond between them and how Miranda's husband died.
I love learning about history when it is told in a story format. Shelley never fails to disappoint me, I started the book this morning and couldn't put it down until I read the whole thing. Since I had never even heard about Johnson Island prison before I googled it in order to learn more about it.
The next book of the series "An Uncommon Protector" is due to be released in February 2017, I hope it will be about Major Devin Monroe because he seems like a complex character. Purchase a copy here or on Amazon.
Shelley is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town's bike trail. Connect with Shelley on her Website, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
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