Books

When Love Finds You

Songs of the Heart Series — Book One

Love has a way of finding us when we’re brave enough to let it in.

In When Love Finds You, the opening book of the Songs of the Heart series, Anna Hayes invites readers into a tender story of second chances, guarded hearts, and the transformative power of unexpected connection. When a woman fiercely devoted to protecting herself and her child encounters a man who sees both her strength and her vulnerability, the carefully constructed walls around her heart begin to crack—revealing the possibility of wholeness she thought was lost forever.

This is not a story of dramatic passion or manufactured conflict. Instead, Hayes weaves a gentle, deeply felt narrative that unfolds like spring sunlight gradually filling a darkened room. Through vivid imagery—a towering oak tree named Gerald, a child’s crayon drawing of three figures, bright red shoes wished for and promised—the novel explores profound questions: Can those shaped by loss and responsibility allow themselves to be fully known? Can faith and love restore what grief has broken?

Perfect for readers who cherish faith-centered romance, single-mother stories, and the quiet wonder of everyday moments made sacred, When Love Finds You promises more than romantic fulfillment. It offers spiritual renewal, reassurance that wholeness is possible, and the gentle reminder that love, when it finally arrives, is worth every risk.

When Hope Sings

Songs of the Heart Series — Book Two

What happens when someone has spent so long protecting themselves from pain that they can no longer distinguish self-preservation from self-imprisonment?

When Hope Sings is the second installment in Anna Hayes’s Songs of the Heart series—a Christian romance that explores the tender, often terrifying journey of learning to feel again after grief or loss has taught the heart to go quiet.

Emily has become so practiced at folding her emotions away that she has nearly convinced herself there is nothing left to fold. Her world is composed, outwardly functional, and inwardly still. But stillness, once a refuge, has become a prison.

The transformation unfolds with deliberate patience—not through dramatic crisis, but through the quiet persistence of people who refuse to stop seeing her. As light slowly returns to the darkest corners of her life, Emily discovers that being seen, and learning to receive love, is not weakness but the most courageous act of all.

Perfect for readers who know what it is to perform wellness while quietly holding themselves apart from their own lives, When Hope Sings offers something more sustaining than tidy resolutions: the reassurance that hope, like light, does not arrive all at once—it comes slowly, gently, and with absolute certainty.

A story about the courage it takes to let yourself feel again.

When Grace Leads You Home

Songs of the Heart Series — Book Three

Can hearts that have learned to guard themselves find the courage to love again?

When Grace Leads You Home is the third book in Anna Hayes’s Songs of the Heart Series—a tender Christian romance about second chances, faith, and the quiet miracles that mend what heartbreak has broken.

Sarah has built careful walls around her heart, moving through each day with the hard-won composure of someone who knows loss. Matthew carries his own guarded restraint. Neither expects what a small child—wise beyond her years—will gently orchestrate between them.

As Arabella, with the unself-conscious faith of childhood, positions the two wounded adults she loves toward each other, something extraordinary begins to unfold. What starts as careful restraint softens by degrees into vulnerability, then tenderness, then a joy that feels earned rather than given. Music threads through their story like emotional language when words fall short. Home—lost, rebuilt, finally entered again—becomes both setting and symbol of their spiritual and romantic transformation.

This is not a story of dramatic passion or grand gestures. It is a story of piping bags and flour-dusted hands, of children as catalysts for grace, of the reassurance that brokenness is not the final word. Perfect for readers who cherish faith-filled romance grounded in emotional authenticity—stories where restoration arrives through small, unhurried, ordinary acts, and where grace, however long it takes, does lead the willing heart home.