The Promise of Forgiveness

The Promise of Forgiveness
352 Pages
NAL
ISBN 978-0451476296

A novel of love, forgiveness, and the unbreakable bonds of family from award-nominated author Marin Thomas . . .

When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her, and any time a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away. But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s broken between them.

But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur, the biological father Ruby never knew existed, would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven, Oklahoma.

As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emotionally distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who left her behind.

Marin Thomas

About Marin Thomas (Phoenix, Arizona Author)

Marin Thomas

Marin Thomas is a bestselling and award-winning author of over 40 novels. She writes romantic women's fiction for Berkley Publishing, and contemporary romance for Harlequin Books and Tule Publishing. The Promise of Forgiveness (March 2016) was a RT Book Review Top Pick and won first place in the mainstream category of the Book Seller's Best contest and was a finalist in the 2017 Best Book Awards. The future She Left Behind (September 2017) was featured on Southern Living "books we can't wait to read this fall" list and was the Award Winner in the "Fiction: Chick Lit/Women's Lit" category of the 2017 Best Book Awards.

Marin grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, where she was inducted into the Janesville Sports Hall of Fame for being the city’s first female athlete to receive a Division I basketball scholarship. Marin played basketball at the University of Missouri in Columbia for two years before transferring to the University of Arizona, where she played center for the Lady Wildcats from 1983 to 1986.

During her time at Arizona, Marin was an Academic All-American and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio-television. After graduation, she married her college sweetheart in a five-minute ceremony at the historic Little Chapel of the West in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marin and her husband are recent empty nesters and currently live in Phoenix, Arizona, where she spends her free time junk hunting and researching ghost tours.