A second heart pulsed beneath hers...and Elise would do anything to protect her child. Even marry a man she hardly knew. But when she saw the pride in Cole's eyes as he gazed at his own motherless daughter, Elise began to hope that maybe she wasn't as foolish as she'd thought. Maybe there was a chance to make a home, to give her baby a real family, on Cole's ranch. Yet the rules were firm. They'd marry, but not share a bed. They'd mingle their lives and their children, but not their hearts. And for a while it worked, until love entered the picture.