Garden of Her Heart: 1 (Hearts of the War)

Can forbidden love blossom amid the constraints of war?The moment the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor life shifted for Miko Nishimura. Desperate to reach the Portland Assembly Center for Japanese Americans shes kicked off the bus miles from town. Every tick of the clock pushes her closer to becoming a fugitive in the land of her birth. Exhausted she stumbles to her grandparents abandoned farm only to find a dying soldier sprawled across the step. Unable to leave him she forsakes all else to keep him alive.After crashing his plane in the Battle of the Atlantic the doctors condemn Captain Rock Laroux to die. Determined to meet his maker beneath a blue sky at his family home he sneaks out of the hospital. Weary and half out of his mind he makes it as far as a produce stand he remembers from his youth. Rather than surrender to death Rock fights a battle of the heart as he falls in love with the beautiful Japanese woman who saves his life.A poignant sweet romance Garden of Her Heart proves love can bloom in unlikely places even under the most challenging circumstances.