"You gotta face the ghosts." More poignant advice the Reverend John Leaf had yet to hear for dealing with his haunted past. A man of God now, he'd done things that would shame the devil himself, not the least of which was loving-and leaving-Abbie Windsor, a woman of true grit and uncommon courage, a woman who could make him whole...! Abbie Windsor had weathered dark days with only the steel of her will for cold comfort. Yet today John Leaf-who'd awakened her womanhood, who'd given her a daughter-offered her his protection. But could she accept a marriage in name only to the man who shared her soul?