Book excerpt: When their South Carolina home burns to the ground, Anna Stewart's only choice is to move with her younger brother to the wilds of a Texas ranch. Their prospects are beginning to look better, until the rancher¿s son, Jacob O¿Brien, shows up with his alarmingly blue eyes to put a kink in Anna¿s well-controlled plans. When danger escalates in the form of a band of cattle thieves with deadly intent, can Anna learn to release control to God¿s capable hands¿and those of the blue-eyed cowboy who¿s stolen her heart?