My Heart's Secret Desire: Book Three of the Heart Trilogy (The Heart Series 3)
When handsome, charismatic itinerant preacher Jason Scott comes to town with his angelic orphaned and gifted faith healing nephew, David, Jessamyn is swept up in the desire to help them find acceptance in the community so they can help those in need. Charles is skeptical of Scott's motives with good reason as Jason Scott is determined to possess her and soon he has seduced her into an illicit affair.
Bruin catches on to Scott's secret cruel and abusive treatment of young David and he vows to save the child from his crooked self serving uncle before it's too late. Jessamyn learns she is pregnant and runs to her lover, hoping he will be as happy as she is, yet she is destroyed by the thought of leaving the people she has come to care for behind, and of breaking Charles' heart should she join Jason and David on their journey to California.
Secretly in love with Jessamyn, Bruin turns to Cassie Taylor for comfort, not realizing she is deteriorating into a dark interior world of madness and revenge, vowing to destroy Jessamyn and everyone she loves and drive her from Bruin's heart and mind.