The busload of ladies all hoping to land him as their husband was the last straw for seriously sexy Rance Philips. He had to make his escape while his bachelorhood was still firmly intact.

His journey unexpectedly brought him to former flame Ellie o’ Connor, now a struggling widowed mother of four. Rance knew that this strong willed beauty needed his help as desperately as he needed shelter in her home… and in her loving arms. But Rance soon suspected that Ellie was hiding secrets…about her eldest son who was his splitting image!