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The Gambler's Heart
Paperback
Series: The Carter Saga, Book 5
ISBN13: 9781078475075
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2019
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Titus St. James has always been a gambling man. This time, the stakes are his life.
A card game in the city ends with a man dead.
Titus acted in self-defense, but that matters little when the dead man's brother is one of the most powerful gang leaders in the city. With vengeance close behind him, the charming gambler does the one sensible thing he can think of.
He heads West.
Titus intends to find his Carter cousins, lie low, and perhaps reconsider some of the choices that have brought him to this particular moment.
Then another poker game goes spectacularly wrong.
Shot and hunted by men who would prefer he never collect his winnings, Titus barely manages to drag himself into hiding before unconsciousness claims him.
That's where Eleyna Gonzalez finds him.
Eleyna has troubles of her own. Trapped beneath the control of a drunken uncle and determined to protect her younger brother, she has learned that survival sometimes means knowing exactly where to hide.
Taking in a wounded gambler isn't part of her plan.
Neither is trusting him.
But Titus once stepped between Eleyna and a man who meant her harm. Now she refuses to leave him to die.
When violence forces Eleyna, her little brother, and a barely recovered Titus to flee together, none of them knows exactly where they're going.
Only that West seems better than what's behind them.
Their journey brings danger, unexpected allies, one very angry river, and eventually the Carter family Titus has been trying to reach.
But reaching safety doesn't mean their troubles are over.
Denver brings questions that neither Titus nor Eleyna can avoid forever. The law wants answers. Their pasts refuse to stay buried. And circumstances soon bind their futures together in ways neither expected.
For Eleyna, there is another problem.
Her faith has carried her through some of the darkest moments of her life.
Titus isn't certain he believes at all.
Yet as they find themselves fighting for people even more vulnerable than they are, Titus begins to discover that perhaps a man's past doesn't have to determine what he becomes.
And Eleyna must decide whether faith means waiting for certainty-or trusting that God may already be working in the heart of the most unlikely man she's ever known.
Titus has gambled with money.
He's gambled with the law.
He's gambled with his life.
But loving Eleyna will require him to risk the one thing he's always kept safely out of every game.
His heart.
The Gambler's Heart is Book Five of The Carter Saga, a faith-filled historical Western romance about redemption, unlikely families, second chances, and discovering that no past is beyond the reach of grace.
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