Heart of a Hero

Forrest Scoville is used to being sized up and found wanting-built like a linebacker, teaching kindergarten. His students follow him around like he hung the moon. It's their parents who keep asking if he's really cut out for working with five-year-olds.

Conrad Langdon is one of those parents. Since he took custody of his grieving niece, Lizzie, she has flinched from almost everyone except her enormous, soft-spoken teacher. Even Conrad's own wariness around big men doesn't survive one real co...