Please help me to give a warm welcome to Davalynn Spencer to the blog today! I’m so happy to have her with us. Before we delve into the story behind the book, let’s find out a little about An Impossible Price.

He has to choose – keep his secrets or the woman he loves. He can’t have both.

With no husband of her own, midwife Sophie Price lives to keep others calm in their hour of need. But when a handsome horse handler steps off the train with a fiery stallion, he brings anything but calm as he looks her dead in the eye and clear through to her soul.

Clay Ferguson returns to the place he once called home, hunting a fresh start and the one woman who could draw him back. If he can hide his battered heart and the brutality of his past, maybe she’ll take another look and give him a second chance.

Both bear scars from their fathers. Both fight for life. Together, they may learn that love is worth its impossible price.

What’s the story behind the story of An Impossible Price?

It’s difficult for me to pinpoint the “story behind the story” for my book, An Impossible Price, because personal stories popped up around me as I wrote it. 

Stories of people who had horrible relationships with their fathers. People whose fathers abandoned them, ignored them, or beat them. Stories of people who bore the scars—physical and emotional—from wounds they received from their fathers.

Tears blur my vision as I write this now.

Looking back on the months I worked, it was almost as if God had something He wanted me to address and I didn’t realize it until I got deep into its creation.

All of us have been wounded in one way or another, intentionally or unintentionally, whether by fathers, mothers, family, or strangers. Those wounds may heal, but they frequently leave scars. 

Physical scars can be bearable, but often they create what physicians call “scar tissue.” 

Last winter I underwent carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand. I’d had the very same surgery fifteen years ago, but the pain and symptoms returned, so my doctor recommended that the procedure be repeated.

During the post-operative visit, the surgeon told me he found significant scar tissue that had attached to the nerve, so he “separated” it. His kind euphemism was another way to say he scraped the scar tissue off the nerve.

Ugh.

Scar tissue has to be scraped off. Or massaged away. Or removed using another method. It’s not easy, often takes time, and frequently involves pain—whether physical, emotional, or psychological.

The hero in my Western romance, Clay Ferguson, bears wounds as well as scars, and the story unfolds around how he deals with them.

With all my heart I believe our good and loving God wants to heal us. Psalm 147:3 says, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Time is often His instrument of healing, as are professionals and others near to us. But no one restores us like our God, and if we let Him close enough, we’ll see the healing imprint of His own scarred hand in our lives.

Bestselling author and winner of the Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Inspirational Western Fiction, Davalynn Spencer is the wife and mother of professional rodeo bullfighters and can’t stop #lovingthecowboy. When she’s not writing Western romance, she teaches writing workshops and wrangles Blue the Cowdog and mouse detectors Annie and Oakley.

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Thanks so much for joining us, Davalynn!