She crossed a continent hoping for a new life?but never believed a man like John Gilbert could love a woman like her.

After escaping the dangerous textile mills of New Hampshire, Hattie Norton arrives in the rugged Oregon logging town of Sawyerville determined to build a life of her own. Marriage would be welcome, but Hattie knows she is no delicate frontier beauty. Short, round, plain, and painfully aware of her imperfections, she has learned not to expect fairy-tale endings.

Then she meets John Gilbert.

A strong, handsome farrier with a gentle way around frightened horses, John admires Hattie's courage, capable hands, and independent spirit. As they work side by side in the livery barn, friendship slowly becomes something deeper?and Hattie begins to wonder whether her heart might finally have found a home.

But when beautiful Sarah Weatherall turns John's head and announces plans to leave for San Francisco, Hattie fears John may follow her. Then a violent summer storm destroys the covered bridge between Sawyerville and the coast, leaving John and the supply wagon missing on the far side of a dangerous ravine.

Though everyone tells Hattie to accept that he has left her behind, her heart refuses to believe it.

To discover the truth, Hattie must trust the man she loves, face the wilderness, and cross the distance between doubt and hope.

Bridge to My Heart is a clean and wholesome historical Western romance about courage, inner beauty, trust, and finding love where it is least expected.