Back in Sundown, Montana, Shallie Malone faced a myriad of knowing glances. The father of her child had abandoned her and there didn't seem to be any knight in shining armor on her horizon.

Then Mac McDonald demanded she accept his marriage proposal. This man from her past offered to give her baby a name and give Shallie the secure future she desperately craved.

Passion made theirs more than an in-name-only marriage and Shallie found herself falling for her husband. But, still hiding one last, scandalous secret, how could she dare ask him to return her love?