The Secret She Keeps

Cassie Miles

Summary

HE WAS HER FIRST LOVE, THE FATHER OF HER SONAND A COMPLETE STRANGEREden Miller had once loved and lost the man of her dreams. But twelve years later he returned, and she learned he’d been undercover for the FBI, investigating her family. Payne’s kisses still thrilled her, but did Eden dare trust her heart or let him in on hertheirbig secret?Payne Magnuson was considered a renegade agentand a wanted man who’d been framed for murder. The stakes couldn’t get any higheruntil Eden told him he was a father! Now nothing would keep him from the woman he’d never stopped loving and the child he had yet to meet. But would fate and a vengeful murderer allow this joyful reunion?

Available since: 05/15/2012.

Print length: 256 pages.

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