A Bent Creek Baby

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>He came back to help his brothers-but he discovered a secret baby and a chance at love.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maverick</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never intended to come back to Bent Creek. There was nothing for me there and I refused to let Flannery Jacobs reject me again. But I can't say no to my brothers when they need my help.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's not long before I run into Flannery but something's changed. She has a daughter-one who would be the right age from the only other time I was in town. The time that Flannery let me know in no uncertain terms that it would never work between us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I just want to do the right thing. I want to be a dad. But I can't fall for Flannery again and the danger coming to Bent Creek is something that's out of my control.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I won't rest until my family-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>all</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> of my family-is safe and Flannery and I can raise our daughter on the same land where I grew up.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Flannery</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Letting Maverick Harker into my life almost two years ago was a huge mistake. It broke my heart to reject him and I see his face every time I look at our daughter. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now he's back and I have to confess the truth to him. His reaction is a surprise-he wants to help to be a part of our daughter's life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And mine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maverick's family needs him and all I want to do is make up for everything I did wrong. But first I have to forgive myself for the past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I receive something entirely unexpected I make a decision I never thought would change everything for Mav and his brothers.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marybeth</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My brother Luke shut me out when I got together with Gabe. I told myself it didn't matter. I may have lost the family I was born into but I'd gained family with the Harkers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now there are men in town who want answers and the only way to keep the past from destroying Bent Creek is for our two families to work together.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To my surprise Luke agrees.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I just hope it works before this town ignites in the tensions that have been simmering for years.</span></p><p></p>