The release date for the English version of 'Shelter Mountain' by
Robyn Carr is Apr 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A lady seeking to escape her past shows up in Virgin River, a tiny hamlet, for the second time in a year.
A young mother and her three-year-old boy enter the tavern as John "Preacher" Middleton prepares to shutter it after a rainy October night. Preacher, a veteran marine, recognizes a problem when he sees one—the lady is slathered in bruises. He wants to shield them and get even with whomever hurt her, but he quickly realizes that this protective instinct is much more than that. This gentle behemoth of a man has never allowed himself to experience the feelings that Paige Lassiter has stirred up in him.
But Preacher knows his own future is in jeopardy when Paige's ex-husband shows up in Virgin River. And if the marines' motto, Semper Fidelis, which means "always faithful," has taught him anything, it's that certain things are worth fighting for.