It takes a strong heart to connect roots with wings.Homefront, Book 1With a life that started in foster care and nearly ended in the mountains of Afghanistan,Grady Reid is more than ready to hang up his sergeant’s stripes when his Army contractexpires.Small-town Meridian, Kansas, seems as good a place as any to finally put down roots.He’s dumped his savings into a ramshackle farmhouse and is on his way to trading bulletsfor bull breeding when an exquisitely beautiful, totally unattainable blonde turns his headfaster than a pivoting cutting horse.Dr. Laurel Hayes longs to escape the confines of stuffy, small-town life for an adrenalinefueled,transient lifestyle delivering medical aid in unstable regions around the world.Then she meets Grady, a man with enticing eyes, a slow smile—and not an ounce of thewanderlust that tugs at her soul.Their lives are headed in opposite directions. But as something more powerful thanattraction, desire, or even lust draws them together, something’s got to give…or their heartscould break under the strain.Warning: Contains a strong, silent Texan military man with wounds he can’t name, andthe gorgeous doctor tough enough to heal them.