Laurel Cooper's only child is getting married. The forty-something widow is busy with the wedding preparations and fixing up the family mansion for her daughter's big day. Widowed for twenty years, Laurel has not thought of marrying again until international photojournalist Micah Davidson turns up to rent a room while in the area working on a photo essay on historic homes of Kentucky and Tennessee. Laurel and Micah are attracted to each other, and as the summer passes, find that the attraction intensifies. All is not idyllic however, as Laurel starts receiving threatening messages and phone calls and turns to Micah for help and comfort. As Micah joins Laurel and her daughter Debbie in their daily life, sharing meals and going to church with them, he searches for something deeper in his, and comes to accept Jesus as his Savior. He has the chance to take on a part-time teaching position at a local college and offer Laurel something permanent, but before they can think of this, Laurel is shocked when she recognizes someone in one of Micah's South American photographs. It's the man her husband had gone off on an adventure trip twenty years previously!  Her husband had been declared dead after an accident, and the friend was never heard from again. Can her husband possibly be alive after all these years? Is the photograph connected to the threatening phone calls and letters? What will happen to Laurel's and Micah's new found love?

Irene Brand pens an exceptional inspirational romance with LISTEN TO YOUR HEART. Heart-warming and engaging with a touch of suspense, LISTEN TO YOUR HEART has a heroine in her forties and a hero who celebrates his fiftieth birthday. It was such a pleasure to read about two mature characters who know what's important in life and who find each other when they least expect it. Irene Brand knows how to touch readers' hearts! LISTEN TO YOUR HEART will soothe and affirm and inspire. Highly recommended!