In The Rancher’s Lost Bride, book 2 in the four-book Lost Malones of Grand, Montana series, further clues are revealed about the birth mother and her mysterious cowboy lover. Leila Monahan desperately wants a family of her own, but before approaching a sperm bank she takes a DNA test. Being adopted, she wants to give her future children all the information she can. Still reeling from the shocking results, she discovers that her first true love, the man who broke her heart, is back in town, with an eight-year-old daughter.

Sawyer Lafferty loved Leila, but her desire to get married—at nineteen!—sent him running. Before settling down, he wanted an education and opportunities. But those, and any future with Leila, vanished with the unexpected arrival of his baby girl. Now a single dad with full custody, he’s come home to manage Grand’s new therapeutic riding stable and rebuild his life.

Leila is gutted to learn that Sawyer wanted a family after all—just not with her. But little Piper quickly captures her heart, and when Sawyer shares the circumstances of his marriage, the spark they once had flares back to life, but is it enough to sustain them? Or will the secrets and lies surrounding them douse it forever?