"Sometimes all you need is a second chance."
Officer William Raymond Trainor has no tolerance for secrets. He believes in the law. He likes order. He'd like a family of his own someday, too, but it doesn't seem likely. Not until, while on patrol, he finds a child abandoned on the mountain. His hardened heart cracks wide open; as does his quest to find out who did this. And why. He fosters, giving her a home, and him, the chance at a family. All is good... until Anna McFadden, the girl's aunt, comes to town to claim the child he loves.
Anna McFadden, herself a throw-away child of the mountain, has come home. Neglected as a child, abused as a teen by a police officer, with so many bad choices made in her life, all she wants is a second chance to make things right with her daughter. The child she's given up at birth to her sister to raise until she could get on her feet. The child everyone thinks is her niece now that her sister has died.
To get to her daughter, Anna must live in the town she swore never to return to. And she must share custody with William Raymond Trainor. A police officer Her biggest nightmare. But the studly, by-the-book lawman is sweet. And way too sexy for her own good. And the foolish hopes and dreams Anna thought decimated long ago resurrect into passion. And love.
As Billy pieces together the mystery surrounding the child's abandonment, he discovers something more sinister. And illegal. Are Billy and Anna enough to stop outside forces who will do anything to get the child they desperately want - even committing murder? Or will the secrets of Anna's past destroy their second chance at love?