If My Love Could Hold You - Softcover

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In such acclaimed bestsellers as Someone Like You and If You Love Me, Elaine Coffman captured the heartwrenching poignance, the tempestuous beauty, and the enduring power of love. Now, here is one of Coffman's wonderful earlier novels, available again with a beautiful new cover. Journey with her back to west Texas, in this deeply moving tale of the healing gift of selfless devotion.

IF MY LOVE COULD HOLD YOU

Charlotte Augusta Butterworth might be all manners and starch on the surface, but Reed Walker knew that inside there was a woman of passion and fire. She saved this handsome stranger from the gallows. He couldn't just walk away, no matter how much she protested to the contrary. Reed wanted to give her back her life as she had given back his. He needed to show her there was more to living than hurt, mistrust, and disappointment. So he gave her his love. But he couldn't promise her his future. . . .

Elaine Coffman is the award-winning author of many bestsellers, including So This Is Love, Heaven Knows, A Time for Roses, the New York Times bestseller If You Love Me, and Someone Like You. A native Texan and former elementary-school teacher, she is the mother of three children.

She lives in Washington, D.C.