The lonely bearer of a shameful secret, Libby Hodges needed to make a new start in Montana Territory as Jacob Stone's mail-order bride and mother to his little girl. Hoping to meet a loving husband, she found instead a man shattered by loss and wary of affection. Libby could read in his gentle gray eyes a desperate plea for the tenderness they both craved. But, how could she claim the heart of a man who'd vowed never to give it away again, or tell her prospective groom that she carried another man's child?
