Annie and the Outlaw — Nancy Pirri

Cane Smith, recently released from prison, serving years for a crime he didn't commit, comes looking for the son he's fathered, but has never met. Cane, hungering for love and family, arrives in Bozeman to claim his son and finds the boy's mother has died. But the boy had been adopted by successful rancher, Tom Callahan. Tom's daughter, twenty-year-old Annie, can't give up the eight year old boy she named Mark but Cane has a solution: Miss Annie will have to marry him if she wants to keep Mark in her life. Annie will do anything to keep her little boy with her-but can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith?