Garden
of Her Heart
Hearts of the War, #1
By
Shanna Hatfield
Genre: Historical (Sweet) Romance
Release
Date: December 7, 2016
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Garden of Her Heart!
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Can forbidden love blossom amid the
constraints of war? A sweet World War II romance from USA Today
Bestselling Author Shanna Hatfield
The moment the
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, life shifted for Miko Nishimura. Desperate to
reach the Portland Assembly Center for Japanese Americans, she’s kicked off the
bus miles from town. Every tick of the clock pushes her closer to becoming a
fugitive in the land of her birth. Exhausted, she stumbles to her grandparents’
abandoned farm only to find a dying soldier sprawled across the step. Unable to
leave him, she forsakes all else to keep him alive.
After crashing
his plane in the Battle of the Atlantic, the doctors condemn Captain Rock
Laroux to die. Determined to meet his maker beneath a blue sky at his family
home, he sneaks out of the hospital. Weary and half out of his mind, he makes
it as far as a produce stand he remembers from his youth. Rather than surrender
to death, Rock fights a battle of the heart as he falls in love with the
beautiful Japanese woman who saves his life.
A poignant,
sweet romance, Garden of Her Heart proves love can bloom in unlikely
places even under the most challenging circumstances.
Miko came to her
senses as she reached a road she recognized in the predawn light. It led to a
farm owned by one of her grandparents’ neighbors. If she cut through their
pasture, it would save her a few miles of walking.
She pushed down
the wires of the fence and stepped over it, then reached back for her suitcase.
The barbed wire caught her coat. Miko jerked it away from the snag and rolled
her eyes in frustration when the fabric ripped.
Anger fueled her
steps. Indignation lent her spent body strength as she hurried across the
pasture.
Relieved when
she reached the far end of the pasture, she hurried over the fence and along
the edge of the trees that circled the vast acres her grandparents owned.
The first
fingers of dawn stretched across the drab sky as she stepped from the trees and
swallowed back a sob at the sight of her grandparents’ produce stand. As long
as Miko could remember, her family had sold produce from the red-painted
structure filled with shelves and bins to hold every type of vegetable and
fruit the fertile soil would grow.
A hundred yards
behind the produce stand, a white picket fence surrounded the cheery yellow
bungalow home her grandparents had built in the mid-1920s. A wide porch and a
plethora of flowers surrounding all four sides made the house appear welcoming.
With a prayer to
find her family waiting inside for her, she raced up the front steps of the
porch and tried the door. The knob rattled but didn’t turn, locked from the
inside. Miko set down her suitcase and rushed around to the back door. In her
haste, she tripped over the body of a man as he sprawled across the back step.
Unconscious, the
uniformed soldier shuddered against the chill in the air, his clothes every bit
as wet as hers. At least his jerky tremors assured her he wasn’t dead.
Panicked, she
pounded on the door. “It’s Miko! Open the door! Please!” Fist banging against
the wood, she called out to her grandparents, willing them to be there.
All remained
eerily silent in the house. Single-minded in her efforts to enter the dwelling,
Miko stepped over the man and lifted a brick from the border edging the
flowerbed.
USA Today bestselling
author Shanna Hatfield writes character-driven romances with
relatable heroes and heroines. Her historical westerns have been described as
“reminiscent of the era captured by Bonanza and The Virginian” while her
contemporary works have been called “laugh-out-loud funny, and a little
heart-pumping sexy without being explicit in any way.”
Convinced
everyone deserves a happy ending, this hopeless romantic is out to make it
happen, one story at a time. When she isn’t writing or indulging in chocolate
(dark and decadent, please), Shanna hangs out with her husband, lovingly known
as Captain Cavedweller.
Email: shanna@shannahatfield.com
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