The Trailblazer

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I always knew I'd marry my first everything Declan Yaeger the Southern boy with Irish roots.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> That was before he became my first heartbreak a NHL superstar with a playboy reputation I no longer recognize. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The summer he left our small Tennessee town to pursue his hockey dream is the summer my life changed. That was seven years ago before he became a defenseman for the Boston Hawks. Before I became a hardened desperate woman trying to survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To protect my grandfather's legacy I agree to marry my oldest childhood friend Henry. But when I enter the Church on my wedding day the grey eyes piercing mine aren't my fiancé's.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They're Declan's the last person I expect to show up with an offer of his own. One I can't refuse even though my heart should know better than to accept.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will my marriage to Declan heal the broken between us? Or are we destined to repeat the mistakes of our past? </strong></p><p></p>