The Maverick’s Surprise Family

He never wanted a family—until he found one he couldn’t walk away from.

Outdoor adventure guide Lucas Landry is happiest leading bucket-list wilderness trail rides, because on horseback, he doesn’t need his despised cane. But when potential biological relatives contact him, he finds himself in Wren, Montana, where he hears an origin story unlike anything he expected. A decades-old tragedy involving a lost child and a man named JP Malone makes him question everything he thought he knew.

Therapeutic riding stable owner Bayleigh Sutherland is floored by her attraction to the man renting a cabin on her ranch. He’s tough, hurting, too young, and all wrong for a single mom with a teen son. But the spark between them is undeniable—as is the positive pregnancy test several weeks later.

Bayleigh wants her miracle baby, but she won’t rob Lucas of the footloose lifestyle that sustains him. Nor will she interfere with the search for his birth mother. When Lucas learns Bayleigh’s secret, he has a decision—return to the safety of the wilderness, or step into a life he never imagined.