Absolution of Abigail Reardon

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Malachy Corcoran takes a demotion in order to accept a front-line job far away from his old position. If he can just keep his head down, perhaps he'll avoid the worst of the personal and professional disasters headed his way. But once in Mission City, BC, he finds the woman he once walked away from. The woman he's never forgotten.Abigail Reardon manages the office at Healing Horses Ranch in Mission City. She never told Malachy that she decided to raise their gifted son as a single mother. The son they'd planned to give up for adoption. Malachy's arrival in town spells disaster-what if Malachy demands parental rights in his son's life? What if he wants custody?Abby and Malachy are forming a fragile alliance to support their son, until Malachy's past catches up with him just as they start to reach a place of peace. Keeping his new family safe might mean walking away from them. Malachy left once, trying to do the right thing-but does he have the strength to do it again?This Absolution of Abigail Reardon is a second-chance, single-parent romance with a touch of angst and a precocious ten-year-old boy. The book is the prequel to the Love in Cedar Valley series set in a small town in British Columbia, Canada.