The Horsemaster's Daughter — Susan Wiggs

She had the power to heal...but would that be enough?

A wild horse, a broken man, a family in ruins and a woman with the power to heal....

Once a privileged son of the South, Hunter Calhoun is now a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife's death. He's been more successful at breeding Thoroughbred racehorses than in managing his crumbling Virginia estate and in caring for his grieving children. When his prized stallion arrives from Ireland crazed and unridable, Hunter is forced to seek out the horsemaster's daughter.

His only hope is the barefooted girl, who's been brought up far removed from the social world of wealth and privilege. Eliza Flyte has inherited her father's gift for gentling horses, and she agrees to tame Hunter's Irish Thoroughbred. But her healing spirit reaches further, drawing her to his shattered family and to the intense, bitter man who needs her--as much as she needs him.

Because Eliza understands what Hunter refuses to see. That love is the greatest healer of all. But can someone from her world teach someone from his what truly matters in life?