Will a chance meeting in a foreign city change their lives forever?

Following her husband’s untimely death, Wendy Miller’s life revolves around her adult children, but when she accepts an invitation to her late husband’s grandmother’s 90th birthday party in London, she meets a dashing, silver-haired Texan cowboy in Dublin. Bruce captures her heart, but can she move past the memories of her late husband and truly open her heart all over again?

Bruce McCarthy did his best to hold his family and ranch together after his wife died in a car accident ten years before, but following a recent health scare, he decides to live every day as if it were his last and books a flight to Ireland to find his Irish family.

The captivating woman he accidentally spills coffee on one morning stirs something inside him, and Bruce wonders if God might be giving him a second chance at love…

As they meet again in London, Paris and Venice, their friendship grows deeper, but while Bruce is eager to take their friendship further, Wendy is unsure if her adult children will accept a new man in her life, especially when one of them still blames God for allowing her father to die prematurely.

If Wendy can trust God to take care of the details, and Bruce can overcome his fears of his cancer returning, then they may just find true love again after all…

A Time to Treasure is the first book in The Time For Everything Series, a set of contemporary Christian romance novels set in Sydney, Australia, and Texas, USA. If you like real-life characters, faith-filled families, and friendships that become something more, then you’ll love Juliette Duncan’s inspirational second-chance romance.

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Wendy didn’t expect to find love again after losing her beloved husband of over 30 years to a heart attack, but after being swept off her feet by a silver-haired Texan cowboy she met in a Dublin hotel, their relationship bloomed, and she agreed to marry him.

Now, Wendy couldn’t be more content as she and Bruce settle into married life in her harbourside home in Sydney.

Bruce is besotted with his new wife and is adjusting well to life in the city, although he secretly hankers for land, horses and open spaces.

When Paige, Wendy’s youngest daughter, announces she’s pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is, as loving Christian parents, Wendy and Bruce take her in and care for her, but she’s rebellious and angry, and threatens to disrupt their peaceful life. 

Is their love strong enough to survive this unexpected intrusion?

Wendy McCarthy knows the overwhelming heartache of grief all too well. While well-meaning friends tell her she’ll get over her loss in time, she knows that you never get over the loss of a child, instead, with God’s help, you learn to live with it.

Each day she thanks God for bringing Bruce into her life. Her cowboy husband is not only her friend and lover, but her rock. He understands the hurricane of emotions sweeping through her and encourages her not to shut herself away, but to instead slowly re-engage.

Baby Elysha, tiny and defenceless, is the blessing that helps her through each day and gives her a reason to get out of bed. Natalie and Adam, Wendy’s daughter and son-in-law, are wonderful parents-to-be to the little girl who’s been thrust into their life unexpectedly, and they eagerly await the day when she will be released from the hospital and will come home with them.

But the unimaginable happens when Elysha’s father appears on the scene, and all they can do is pray and trust that God has the situation under control.

Can God work this out so there are no losers? Will the sun ever shine again for Wendy and Bruce and Natalie and Adam?

Bruce McCarthy’s heart aches for his estranged son, Andrew. After witnessing the grief his wife Wendy, suffered after the loss of her daughter, he knows there may never be a tomorrow, so, when he and Wendy travel back to his family ranch in Texas, Bruce’s main goal is to build bridges with his son.

Andrew McCarthy has built a life for himself. It might not be the life his folks had planned for him, but it was his life, and he was happy with it. He didn’t need his family. Melody and her five-year old daughter were all he needed.

But something was missing in his life, although he wouldn’t admit it to anyone, let alone himself.

Wendy encourages Bruce to trust God in this situation, just like he’d encouraged her when she was struggling with everything, but when she tumbles off a horse and breaks a leg, once again she’s faced with a situation only God can fix.

But can He heal the wounds of the heart as well as healing Wendy’s physical ones?