Paradise By His Side
About
He’s loved her nearly all his life.
She’s terrified loving her has cost him the one thing he should have had.
Angel Gallagher can handle just about any crisis Piney Woods throws her way—fire, flood, storm damage, missing children. But when it comes to Ray Bartlett, the cowboy who has stood by her side through every hard season, Angel carries one heartbreak she can’t outrun: after nearly dying having to her youngest and losing a pregnancy afterward, she’s convinced she can never give Ray the child he deserves.
A child with his eyes.
His smile.
His blood.
Ray has never seen it that way.
To him, Danny Ray, Savannah Grace, Tommy Joe, and every child God has gathered into their loud, messy, beautiful tribe are his babies. His family. His answered prayer. And when a vivid dream shows him an alternate life with Angel—and a child of their own—Ray wakes up to one devastating truth: that life would have cost him the children he already loves beyond reason.
Now Angel must decide whether she can finally believe what Ray has known all along:
She was never his compromise.
Never his second choice.
Never the woman he settled for.
She is his heart.
His home.
And the only woman he would ever choose.
A deeply romantic, Texas-hearted love story about grief, healing, family, and a forever kind of love that proves blood doesn’t make a tribe—love does.