Tender Touch

Lacy Butler is graced with the gift of healing. She can save
strangers--even those undeserving--yet fails to save her mother.
Rejecting her gift, God, and society, she's content to live alone high
above the mining town of Harperville. But her solitude is shattered
when Royce Darnell builds a water flume through the middle of her
mountain. To protect her sanctuary, Lacy sabotages his efforts. Little
does she expect Royce to track her through a blizzard and end up half
frozen to death on her doorstep. She can heal him, but why should she
when he threatens to steal her peace...and her heart?

With the livelihood of the miners and their families depending on his
project, Royce refuses to stop building, no matter how good the reason
or how lovely the masked saboteur turns out to be. Besides, he's
convinced God wants Lacy to use her gift for good and not to hole up in
her cabin like a reticent recluse afraid of human contact. But first,
she must learn to trust, and Lacy doesn't trust anyone, not Royce and
especially not God. Soon Royce finds himself in a battle to save the
two things he loves the most--Harperville and Lacy. Is his faith
strong enough to save them both?