The Heart Knows

Widow, Lydia Wainwright, travels west to Kansas to begin a new life as a frontier schoolmarm, but a train wreck derails her plans and leaves her burned and injured.Drew Spurlock races to the wreck and mistakes the delirious Lydia for his long-lost cousin, Minnie, a woman he contracted to care for his two love-starved children.Suffering from amnesia, Lydia is nursed back to health by Drew and the children. During her convalescence she strives to believe Drew's version of her life, yet each time she faces her image in the mirror, she's wracked with doubts about her true identity. As she cares for Drew's children and stubbornly throws herself into her new life, she embraces the freedom of Kansas and the stirrings of the women's suffrage movement.Drawn to her independent spirit and quick wit, Drew is disturbed by facts that don't add up. His cousin Minnie was never a woman to ride horse back, and when did she suddenly develop such a passion for farm animals? He fears he's made a mistake, but when he digs for answers and unearths the truth, he delays revealing his secret so Lydia will stay.When Lydia remembers her identity and discovers the secret Drew has kept from her, she struggles to make the right choice. Can she respect and trust a man she loves who allowed her to live a lie, or must she leave him and the two children who are as dear to her as life itself?