She had the kind of secret no woman could keep…

When Josie O’Malley found herself pregnant, she knew her father would surely mete out the Texas law of the West–and shoot the no ’count before he’d demand a shotgun wedding. What her dad’ didn’t know was that the Josie has been with the one man he’d respected above all others. Clay Jackson.

He’d never guessed he fathered her child…Two years ago Josie left Texas in a hurry for the solitude of Montana. Now Clay knew why. But it boiled his blood that she’d had anybody’s baby but his. It burned him even more that a thief led Clay to her doorstep. So what was Josie hiding besides a child? And what would Clay’s investigation reveal about the toddler’s father…and the woman he’d never stopped loving?