Sweet Boundless

Their vows were a tenuous bond at best, but she had little else to cling to...

Newly married Carina DiGratia Shepard longs to make a home for herself and her husband in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. But haunted by the pain of his troubled childhood and fearing he possesses a heart unable to love, Quillan Shepard has abandoned her without word of his return.

Carina fears she may break under the pain of rejection but responds with determination. She courageously carves out an independent existence in the town that has become home to her, but through it all Carina longs to find a way to loosen the bitterness that holds her husband's soul captive.

Pub Date Mar 2010

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Their Vows Seemed a Tenuous Bond at Best, But It Was All She Had... Awakening to a new landscape, Carina DiGratia Shepard is as transformed as the home she has embraced. The mining town of Crystal, Colorado, has lost its evil stranglehold, its surface cleansed by a devastating flood, its people both shattered and revitalized. Carina, too, now strolls its boardwalks a different woman. Married, though in title only. The habits of her rogue husband's solitary life still reign--Quillan Shepard has left without word of his return, haunted by the parents who'd given him a name he despises and a heart unable to love. Disillusioned by her abandonment, Carina feels again the painful rejection that had driven her to Crystal. Choosing to respond with equal determination, she carves out an existence that provides the independence and identity she has long sought. But the call of the Rose Legacy still beckons...and Carina hopes its dark caverns hold the key to loosening the bitterness encircling her husbands's soul.