The Promise of Forgiveness

A novel of love forgiveness and the unbreakable bonds of family from award-nominated author Marin Thomas . . .   When it comes to family Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her and any time a decent boyfriend came along she ran away. But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s broken between them.   But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur the biological father Ruby never knew existed would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven Oklahoma.   As far as first impressions go the gruff emotionally distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe Dawson the ranch foreman she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who left her behind.