He only wanted to be a father to his children... But that was the one thing Daniel Kenddck couldn t be Falsely

accused of a crime that severed him from his family, he made

a new. solitary life for himself in New Orleans. Soon that. too

was shattered.

His teenage danghier had runaway--had run to him. How

could he explainthat he couldn t give her the home she longed

for? How could he convince youth worker Tessa Hamilton to

let him see her? Tessa. "after all. was the woman who had

damned him in rite eyes of the law.

But Tessa is having second thoughts about her testimony. Now that she s met Daniel ,she has strong doubts about his guilt.

She doesn t, however, doubt that she s strongly attracted to him...