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**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 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? **