Mac Brubaker "could not believe his eyes. It was Ella, all right. No mistaking that. The thing he couldn't get over, get around, get past, was her ... condition. She was pregnant. With child. Great with child. Myriad emotions whipped his mind, numbing it with confusion. But his heart suffered no such bewilderment. Only longing. Oh, how he'd missed her. How he yearned for her still. After every-thing. She had hurt him deeply, and now ... now he'd discovered that she was about to have a child. His child." For shy kitchen maid Ella McCloskey, it was "a fairy tale come true. For when millionaire rancher Mac Brubaker whisked her away for a secret wedding and secluded honeymoon, she thought she'd found her prince. But circumstances soon had Ella heading for the Texas hills, and not even stopping to pick up her glass slipper. The Cinderella bride thought she'd put all her dreams of happily ever after behind her. Until Mac showed up ... just as she was about to give birth to his secret baby!