A Quiet Homecoming for the Long-Lost Heiress

After years of drifting alone, Jean Carter believed she had found a safe home with her adoptive father, until his birth family returned and left her shut out. Wounded by their coldness, she set out to find her birth family and met Julian Howard, a wealthy but unassuming man. He first meant only to provide basic care, but as they grew closer he became fiercely protective, determined to legally make her his daughter. Yet a hidden truth from her past threatens to tear them apart before they can truly become family.