"Jean Brashear is a writer of rare talent." ~Affaire de Coeur
From New York Times and USAToday bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear and Audie-finalist narrator Eric G. Dove, book eight in the popular Sweetgrass Springs series:
Can two brothers who never knew each other existed overcome the secrets of a woman who abandoned one son and lied to the other?
For Michael Cavanaughâs entire life, his mother has kept a shocking secret: that she was married once before she married his father, and she gave birth to that manâs child. Stunned that the mother whoâd loved him so would abandon a child and furious with his motherâs deceit, he sets out to find the older brother he has always wanted.
Ian McLaren, the favorite son of Sweetgrass Springs, has a full plate: a wife he adores, a baby on the way, a ranch to run and a town that depends on him. When a stranger arrives in their small town with the staggering news that he and Ian share a motherâthe woman heâll never forgive for abandoning him and his dadâhis world tilts off its axis.
Gordon McLaren has had years to regret the path he chose that parted him from the only woman heâs ever loved. Now he is torn between his longing to see her again and the anguish doing so would cause the son heâs worked so hard to protect all these years.
Walking away from the child she cherished and the man she loved was far from easy for Sophia Bancroft McLaren Cavanaugh. Facing them again would be the single most terrifying step sheâs undertaken since the day she left to save her sanityâand Gordon forbade her to return.
Secrets divide the four of them, and the anguish of the past makes it impossible to hope they could ever overcome the years of heartache
Until the threat of an even more unbearable loss gives them one last chance to unite.