Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, is a place with a mysterious past and more than its share of secrets.

LET DEBBIE MACOMBER TAKE YOU INTO THE HEART OF TEXAS

Welcome back to Promise, Texas, a ranching community deep in the Hill Country. It's a good place to live and raise a family--and a good place to visit. Yes, there's a secret or two hidden beneath Promise's everyday exterior, but what town doesn't have its secrets?

CAROLINE'S CHILD
Who's the father of Caroline Daniels's

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Nell Bishop is a widow and mother of two kids and has changed Twin Canyons into a dude ranch. Among her first visitors is Travis Grant, a famous person of sorts, an aspiring cowboy, and a man from the East known for his Western books. Nell's kids are wild about Travis, and Nell is getting a little crazy about him, too. It is too soon, she thinks, to think of dating and marriage. And Travis appears intent on shaking up the town, by discovering a mystery...