Book Tuesday-Author Leann Harris & Second Chance Ranch

My guest today is Author Leann Harris, whose book Second Chance Ranch, debuts this month! Here's Leann:

I want to thank Lyn for this opportunity to share. But I’d like to give the readers just a little different twist on a brave story. I’m going to let the heroine in my latest book, Second Chance Ranch, do the talking. Sometimes our characters are more articulate than we are.

Thanks, Leann, I appreciate it. My name is Sophie Powell and I grew up in New Mexico. After college, I joined the Army and became a medic and was sent to Iraq. When I went for training at Walter Reed midway through my deployment, I visited one of my ex-patients in the hospital. Jack lost his legs in a road-side explosion, but when I caught up with him, he was going riding at a stable outside D.C. in the Maryland countryside. Equine therapy is what it is called.

You should’ve seen Jack’s face as he settled into the saddle and rode around the ring on his mount. I saw hope and victory in his eyes. I remembered the despair in his eyes as I worked to stabilize him in the field and knew then what God wanted me to do with my life after the Army. Of course, I am a horsewoman. I love to ride and had a horse when I was a girl. God knew that I needed the healing that horses and helping others could bring to my heart. It brought my family back to me and it brought me the love of my life, Zachary McClure.

I want to say that God took the ashes of Zach’s and my lives and turned them into beauty. When both Zach and I thought our lives were useless and were in a fog, He showed us the path to take. And that path brought healing, joy, and love. I hope you’ll read our story.

I am humbled to serve the great men and women of our military. The courage it takes for a soldier to put his/her life together after being wounded is amazing. Our prayers should be with them and their families. . . Sophie Powell

Now, Sophie might be a character in my book, but her words are the truth, and our soldiers and their families need our prayers and thanks."--Leann

Barbara Harrison aka Leann Harris Bio
When Barbara was first introduced to her husband in college she knew she would never date the man. He was a graduate student getting a PhD in physics, and Barbara had purposely taken a second year of biology in high school to avoid taking physics. So much for first impressions. They have been married thirty-nine years and still approach life from very different angles. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Barbara taught math and science to deaf high school students for a couple of years until the birth of her first child. When her youngest child started school, Barbara decided to fulfill a life-long dream and began writing. After both her children left home, she went back to teaching.

She is a former president of the Dallas Area Romance Writers and founding member. Barbara presently lives in Plano, Texas with her husband. Her thirteenth novel Second Chance Ranch. is a Jan ‘1 release

Visit her at her webpage www.leannharris.com or barbharrison.com
Another book for my TBR pile!--Lyn