Used book – A Pledge of Love, Nadia Nichols, Carol Monroe

Please, help me... Carson Dodge watched Libby Wilson closely. She was desperate and far too pretty. Surely the kind of girl who would turn men's heads by snuggling into their arms. But ever since his wife betrayed him, he had sworn not to let his protective instincts get the better of him. What's more, he savored his solitude on the shores of Lake Evening. But the story of the beautiful Libby Wilson touched him despite himself: an illegitimate daughter, a dispossessed heiress, the young woman possessed, all in all, to assert her rights, a simple token of love - the ring her father had given her mother, just before disappearing in the lake region. To find a tangible trace of her father, and thus prove their blood ties, she needed Carson. Desperately. Under these circumstances, could he decently turn his back on her? And then, he might as well admit it: this young woman disturbed him too much for him to let her linger. The sooner she finished her research, the sooner she would leave. Once all that was settled, she would have been but a fleeting presence in his life and, inevitably, he would forget her...