title: His Ten-Year-Old Secret
author: Clayton, Donna
description: THE BONDS OF PARENTHOOD
  
  Her child was alive! For ten years Tess has believed her little girl was lost to her forever. Then an unexpected inheritance led the lovely doctor back home...to the man she'd always loved. There she discovered her beloved Dylan was a bachelor father, and the child he was raising was their own daughter!
  
  Dylan had vowed to protect and cherish his child, yet he opened their lives to let Tess in. But this dedicated father was no longer the young lover Tess remembered. Could she uncover the tender man she had never forgotten, and convince him to take a chance on their newly formed family, and their own true love?