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To Win Her Heart by Karen Witmeyer has a very dramatic and memorable ending. It is set in Spencer, Texas in 1889.

Levi Grant has a past that he is ashamed of. He is tall and is very muscular. He comes to Spencer to apply for a blacksmith job, the town has been without one for a long time. He learned his trade from his father but was enticed by prizefighting. Leaving his home to be a fighter, he intentionally commits a crime, and spends two years repaying his debt to society. He vowed to never fight again.

Eden Spencer comes from a family of means and good reputation. She was jilted and decides to move to Spencer to open a lending library and give up on men. One day, Levi comes to the library to borrow a book. Eden looks at this very large stranger and wonders if she should trust him with a book.

They both have secrets from the past and seem very different in educational background, social status and will have to deal with secrets and sheriff that you will to hate. Love, forgiveness, understanding and redemption and special mutt named Ornery will make you to always remember this story. ( )

This was a story I didn't start out thinking I would enjoy that much, but the more I kept reading, the more this story grew on me. It was a story of second chances. Levi Grant is starting over in the town of Spencer, Texas, after completing his sentence in prison for the unintentional crime that "derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune". He is now the town's blacksmith, which is a trade he learned from his father, before he struck out on his own as a prize-fighter.

Eden Spencer chooses to spend her time running a lending library in Spencer, the town her father founded. When Levi decides to visit her library she is hesitant to trust him. Levi's struggle with words was heartfelt in this story. Eden soon starts to believe he is a man she could give her heart to, until Levi's past is suddenly brought out into the open. Levi will now need to 'win her heart' and show her he needs a second chance. ( )

Levi is a blacksmith with a somewhat violent past. A prize fighter who accidental killed a man in the ring, he has paid his dues in prison and has vowed to give up fighting and live a peaceful life. Eden, once jilted by a fiancé, has decided to live a single life, and has devoted herself to giving assistance to others and has opened her home as a lending library with her own books. She believes Levi to be slow-witted, due to a speech problem he takes care to hide, until she discovers their shared love of books. Through written letters left the borrowed books, they discuss literature, and fall in love. But all is not peaceful in this little town. The sherif has decided Eden will be his, despite her protests to the contrary, and he will do anything necessary to rid the town of his rival. Though the romance in this tale tends to be a bit too sweet for my tastes, there are some meatier parts to the book. Several topics arise in the course of the story, from forgiveness, to open mindedness, to compromise, to upholding your standards in the face of oppression. The setting and the time frame adds much to the enjoyment of this well written novel. ( )

After serving two years for manslaughter, Levi Grant has reconnected with his faith and made the decision to leave his prior career of prizefighting behind him and devote himself to his family trade as a blacksmith. Moving to a new town, he finds himself besotted with the local librarian, Eden Spencer. But with her utter abhorrence for any violence can Levi convince her to love a man with such a dark past?

Yet another enjoyable Christian romance from Karen Witemeyer, this time with bonus small town librarian. ( )