To Protect Their Child

McCLINTOCK COUNTRY: High up in the Rocky Mountains is a place where the wind blows fast and fierce, where trust is precious and where everyone has a secret.

With her father accused of murdering her husband, Elaine Greene knew her loyalties were torn. To do nothing condemned him. To pursue an investigation risked exposing the secret she kept from Ric Buchanan, the man she'd promised to love forever... then betrayed.

Ric had only one sweet memory of his hometown: Elaine. And that had soured when his brown-eyed beauty's father drove her into the arms of Ric's best friend. But when a secret child was revealed moments before Elaine's husband's death, Ric was honor bound to find the murderer, recapture his lost love, and protect the child he hadn't known he'd fathered....