A Soldier’s Heart

Sherrill Bodine is a best-selling author, fashionista, and world traveler. She has published 19 romance novels, co-authored a comic book, and was a contributing columnist to the Chicago Sun-Times. Her novels have won or been nominated for several romance industry awards including the Write Touch Reader's Choice Award, the Golden Quill Reader's Choice Award, and Romantic Times' Best Romance of the Year. Her 2008 novel Talk of the Town (Grand Central Publishing) was chosen by Cosmopolitan magazine as its "Red Hot Read" for February 2009. She is a member of the Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Novelist Inc., Chicago North RWA, and Off Campus Writers. Sherrill has lived all over America including tenures in Indiana, Los Angeles, New York City, Charleston, West Virginia, and ultimately Chicago, where she is active in high society and widely recognized and applauded for her philanthropy and civic work. Committed to giving back to her community, she is active on several charitable boards including The Service Club of Chicago, The Chicago Academy for the Arts, Parkways Foundation, and The Woman's Board of La Rabida Children's Hospital and is a frequent speaker at charity events and functions. She currently resides on Chicago's North Shore and she frequents fashion shows and charity galas with her longtime Prince Charming (with whom she scandalously eloped at age 18).

Nothing is fair in love or war, especially when they are one and the same.When the handsome Lord Matthew Blackwood approached her, Serena Fitzwater immediately knew they were meant to be together. Bold and brash, the qualities that made Matthew an excellent soldier made him her soul mate as well. A storybook romance and marriage followed, only to be interrupted by the call for Matthew to return to the frontlines.When Matthew returns months later, he's no longer the knight in shining armor of Mary's fairy tale dreams. Wounded in action, this man is a stranger. The true battle begins as the lovers must fight to find themselves, and a new happily ever after.