Mending His Trust by Kristen Iten

A retired Marine colonel and the lonely, unofficial town matchmaker are thrown together as the fate of the Wounded Warriors Rescue hangs in the balance.
Jim Larsen is all set to move home to his family’s dairy farm in Wisconsin—what better place to cool his feelings for Kat than in the frozen north? It would be a great plan, too, if only he could leave his broken heart behind in Liberty Cove.
He waited too many years for her widow’s heart to heal. Now convinced that he’ll never compete with the memory of her departed husband, he understands it’s time to move on.
The drive home will be a lonely one, but not as lonely as the long winter nights ahead of him with nothing but the sound of cattle to keep him company.
Kat Davenport has almost run out of smiles. The man she was certain would make a move for her heart, made a move across the country instead, causing her to question everything she thought she knew about love. While still in shock about Jim’s sudden departure, she learns that someone on the city council has it in for the Wounded Warrior Rescue.
A letter arrives informing her that she’s got one month to clear out of the rescue. Zoning laws that haven’t mattered to anyone for the past twenty years are now the weapons that threaten to destroy her life’s work and the home she’s made for the returning veterans who find refuge under her roof.
Kat and the rescue boys mobilize to save the rescue, but just as a plan starts to come together, she receives devastating news about Jim… news that brings back haunting memories of the night she lost her husband to a heart attack many years ago.
She wants nothing more than to be by Jim’s side until she can be sure he’ll pull through, but can she risk leaving the rescue in the middle of a crisis knowing she’s got a houseful of men and rescue dogs depending on her?