AUTHOR: Jeneth Murrey

WHAT POSSESSED HER TO PROPOSE TO GIDEON!

Now a rich widow, Ellis had returned with her adopted son, Davey, to the Welsh home where once she'd been a woebegone foster child. Back then she'd suffered the contempt of her foster cousin, Gideon. And here she was --- offering herself in marriage to him!

Secretly, Ellis felt she owed it to little Davey to ensure his rightful place in Gideon's family. And she concealed from the aloof Welshman the perturbing truth about the child's roots.

She also hid the aching, one-sided love she'd always borne for Gideon. But her pain only increased when Davey's real mother turned up ...