Hanson Taylor survived the blast that took down his unit. Alice Sweet's ranch has worked miracles for his buddies before, but the war that followed him home is quieter, darker, and far more relentless. When Katherine Sutton comes to the ranch to help young Mason Sweet with his dyslexia, she doesn't expect to find a brooding soldier fighting battles nobody else can see. But some wounds don't heal on a schedule-and some hearts take courage to reach.