Desperate, but too proud to ask for help, she finally agrees to accept a job from Tate - the job of being his wife. But the last thing she needs is a baby when she can barely take care of herself. Loneliness and a secret yearning for this man she thought she'd never have led her to spend the night with Tate. For Abby, it's a struggle just to fill her belly and keep a roof over her head. As the daughter of the town whore, people either avoid her or think she's like her mother. There's only one problem.he has to tell his fiancée.Ībby Grayson hasn't had an easy life. Once again, Tate must take responsibility for his actions, and makes plans to marry his child's mother. Now, six weeks later, she's pregnant, alone, and broke. Until the night he gets drunk and sleeps with a woman he barely knows. All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be.
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