
The woman he never forgot, the daughter he never knew. A ready-made family comes with ready-made challenges. After a disastrous marriage, widow Jacqueline Jolivette and her angsty fourteen-year-old daughter reluctantly move back to Louisiana. The small town might have intimidated her before, but now she knows there are worse things than the threat of sideways glances in the grocery store - like a fourteen-year-old daughter who can’t stand her, for example. As if she doesn’t have enough to worry about, Jacqueline almost runs into her daughter’s once elusive biological father at a local festival. Of all the festivals, in all the towns, in all of Louisiana … Lawyer to the Cajun Stars, Kevin Babineaux, loves his life, but he knows something’s missing. Every woman he’s dated falls short of the one who got away fifteen years ago. Then his new client, Mrs. Jolivette, arrives with a picture of her fourteen-year-old daughter. Math was never Kevin’s weak area, and when he sees the child’s eyes, he knows he’s her father. Their second chance is rife with pitfalls as Kevin trips into fatherhood and Jackie struggles to reconnect with her daughter. That same daughter who is currently sneaking out of the house, while someone watches from the shadows. This heartwarming small-town romance features an exhausted but fierce single mom, a hot but touchy lawyer, and a second chance for the love that got away. Mix in a secret child, and you have yourself a party. This dual first-person POV novel is a stand-alone in the Babineaux Brothers series and contains mildly spicy moments with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating.