Book Two (all stand-alone titles) of a Six Book Series About The Luchetti FamilyLeaving Las Vegas . . .After discovering that the father she'd been told was dead is, in fact, alive, thirteen-year-old Rayne Houston runs away. She takes along her new friend, the Timinator, aka Tim, a young boy she found hiding behind a garbage can in her hometown of Las Vegas. Tim needs a daddy too, so the two of them hop a bus to Illinois and begin The Daddy Quest.Nicole Houston is frantic when she discovers her daughter is gone. Her lies are coming back to haunt her, but when she told them she believed she was doing the right thing for everyone. Nicole lived a life no child ever should. Dumped as a baby, unwanted and unloved, she ended up in Vegas, working as a stripper. Then one night of love with a man bound for the priesthood set her on a new path... as a mother.Aaron Luchetti never became a priest. Instead he has been working on the family dairy farm and trying to forget his past and his failures. But he never got over his time in Las Vegas; he never got over Nicole. When he discovers he has a daughter he is both thrilled and horrified.From the moment Nicole steps back into his life, Aaron awakens. Everything about Nicole enthralls him. Everything about his daughter enchants him. He wants them to be a family. But is it too late?The Luchettis Series in Order: THE FARMER'S WIFE (Kim)THE DADDY QUEST (Aaron)THE BROTHER QUEST (Colin)THE HUSBAND QUEST (Evan)A SOLDIER'S QUEST (Bobby)THE MOMMY QUEST (Dean)Published since 1994, Lori Handeland is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than sixty novels. In addition to being a five-time nominee and two-time winner of the prestigious RITA(TM) Award for the best in romance writing, Lori's books have won the National Readers' Choice Award, a Romantic Times Award and many others, as well as being translated into multiple languages. Her most recent novel, Just Once is under development by Catalyst Global Media as a feature film.Lori lives in Southern Wisconsin. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with her husband and their rescue mutt, Arnold, along with occasional visits from her two grown sons and perfectly adorable grandsons.