02446cam a2200337 i 4500 1109585410 TxAuBib 20240109120000.0 210723s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781988409429 198840942X (OCoLC)1261319803 TxAuBib rda Jordan, Kimberly Rae, author. A heart renewed / by Kimberly Rae Jordan. 1st ed. [United States] : Three Strand Press, [2020] 386 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New Hope Falls ; 4 "One man's actions robbed Jillian Hall of her sense of security. She is held captive by the fears in her mind, feeling like her hopes for a husband and a family have been cruelly ripped away. Jillian has returned to New Hope Falls, hoping to salvage some part of her future. It was a place that once offered her safety, and she hopes it does that for her again as she begins to teach at the local elementary school. It's the only dream she has left. Carter Ward's own actions robbed him of the woman he loved. It's been ten years since that night, and still the woman he'd planned to spend the rest of his life with lies vegetative in a hospital bed. His guilt keeps him frozen in the past, unwilling to consider a future--one with a wife and a family--when she has no future beyond her hospital bed. The couple who would have been his in-laws want him to begin to live again since nothing will change with their daughter's condition. But that's the last thing Carter feels he deserves. When Carter rescues Jillian from an awkward situation with a persistent guy who thinks they should date, they discover that while neither of them is interested in a relationship, being able to say they are dating might solve a problem for both of them. But is there a chance for something more? Will they be willing to reach for previously abandoned dreams? Or will the things that have held them captive continue to chain them to their pasts?" -- From back cover. 20240109. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Trust Fiction. Small cities Fiction. Romance fiction. Christian fiction. fast New Hope Falls ; 4.