The Healer

In 1880s Tombstone, one sprawling ranch family is about to change — one bride at a time.

Sage Archer was born to heal. She learned it at her mother's knee, from a worn remedy book and a pair of careful hands that could calm a fever or soothe a frightened child — and she's certain, deep down, that the frontier needs her gift, whatever the town doctor says about what a woman can and cannot be.

When the doctor turns her away from a hard birth with a curt "a doctor is what's needed," Sage swallows the hurt and keeps doing the quiet, necessary work no one else will. Then Clint Jackson arrives — a medical student from New York whose father is gravely ill — and something is not quite right among the miners beyond the ridge. Sage finds herself needed in ways she never expected, and Clint finds that the young woman with her mother's remedy book knows things his textbooks never taught him.

Caught between the calling she can't ignore and a man who sees exactly who she is, Sage begins to wonder whether the healer this frontier truly needs has been right here all along.

Meanwhile, the remedy book in Sage's hands belonged to Katie Archer — and the legacy that quiet, careful mother left behind is only now coming to light.

The Healer is the ninth book in the Archer Family Ranch saga, a sweet historical romance about finding your calling, quiet courage, and being seen for who you really are — for readers who love wholesome frontier romance and warm western towns.