Cora’s Heart. Rachael Herron. 2013.

Gwen has been hurt too many times. And by one man in particular. 

Abandoned by her mother and widowed in her mid-twenties, Cora Sylvian has learnt the hard way that you should take nothing in life for granted. 

So everything is planned out to the nth degree - from how to run her farm on a shoestring, to how to survive a major earthquake.

Unfortunately there’s nothing in those notes to cover the return of the infuriatingly handsome Mac Wildwood. Her husbands cousin. The man she loved and lost. 

And a Mac, it seems, has a shattering plan of his own up his sleeve.

Dammit. Cora Sylvan safeguarded everything - but she didn’t protect her heart.