Ann Chase

The Way to a Man's Heart Ann Chase

Amelia Grant has left a successful career to care for her grandmother. She returns to the family homestead, a farm in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. But, although she spent most of her childhood summers there, she has never experienced a New England winter. Her grandmother's neighbor, Sloan Gallagher, comes to the rescue. But Sloan is harboring a secret, a secret that keeps him from opening up to anyone, a secret that requires a service dog. Amelia uncovers several secrets of her own. Secrets that lead to her next hotel project, converting the farm into a bed and breakfast. From the moment he finds "Mel" Grant rustling around on her grandmothers back porch, she disrupts the isolated life Sloan has built. Despite his determination to remain distant and aloof, he finds himself being drawn to her contagious spirit. But a traumatic event in the Middle East, a mission gone awry, has scarred him. When he finds himself falling in love with her, he drives her away, or tries to...