The Woodcarver's Heart

She fell in love with the woodcarver.

 She had no idea who he really was.

At fifty-eight, Helen Deaux has already lived a full life. She has loved deeply, known loss, built a successful career, and learned that beginning again does not require erasing everything that came before.

Then she walks into Sampson Vale's Wisconsin studio.

He is sixty, blind, scarred, extraordinarily handsome—and entirely uninterested in being pitied. Sampson works with his hands, listens more than he speaks, and understands wood with an intimacy Helen finds impossible to resist.

What begins with conversation becomes courtship. Cinnamon doughnuts. Dinner. Laughter. A first kiss worth waiting for. And slowly, two people who never expected to need another great love begin making room for one.

But Sampson has kept one enormous truth from Helen.

The quiet woodcarver she is falling in love with is also a man of extraordinary wealth and international influence—a man whose name can change what happens in rooms Helen never knew he entered.

When his hidden world follows them to London, Helen must reconcile the man she thought she knew with the powerful man he never allowed her to see. And Sampson must face a fear no amount of money can solve:

If Helen knows everything he is, will she still choose the woodcarver?

From Wisconsin studios to London galleries, unexpected European roads and places neither has known before, The Woodcarver's Heart is a rich, sensual story of mature love, craftsmanship, friendship, second beginnings—and the quiet intimacy of being truly seen.

SILVER & STILL BURNING

Because Desire Does Not Have an Expiration Date.

LOVE | PASSION | FRIENDSHIP | NEW BEGINNINGS