Spirit of the Valley

"There are authors who touch the heart, but this one grabs hold of your soul." --Romance At Heart Reviews

In Virginia, 1883, some things you can run from. . . some you have to fight.

Pauline Ray is on the run, and she won't get far. With thirty-four dollars, two small children to feed, the cold coming in fast, she has no idea how she'll hide her tracks from her monster of a husband, let alone support her family. But Pauline is done with convention, and with nothing from her old life worth preserving, not even her name, she's free to become a whole new person.

All she has to do is singlehandedly turn a run-down homestead into the haven she and her children need, in a town full of wagging tongues and watchful eyes. But one man is watching her with more than judgment. Pauline would never have considered his scandalous proposal in her days as an obedient, suffering wife and daughter. But "Lizzie" might dare to accept him--his love, his work, and his secrets--and wrest her story toward a happily ever after all her own. . .

Jane Shoup is a native of Southern Indiana and a 20?year resident of North Carolina. Her novelPedestals won the Eppie Award for best action thriller in 2006. Currently, her day job is in real estate, although she writes every moment she possibly can. Shoup says writing is like slipping into another world--which is precisely what she aims to make possible for her readers. You can visit her at www. janeshoup.com.