Man with a Past (Montana Mavericks, Return to Big Sky Country, No. 11) (Montana Mavericks, Return to Big Sky Country, No. 11) by Celeste Hamilton (2009-05-03)

This in the introduction of another character that has lived in Whitehorn for about nine years: Jonas Bishop. He is mysterious, a bit, and reclusive. Elizabeth Monroe is sent to Whitehorn, an investigative reporter, to run a story on the kidnapping [or disappearance of] little Jennifer McCallum. Jonas doesn't want anything to do with any reporters, they will just try to dig up his past. Well here we have another secret. Clint Calloway is one of the police detectives of Whitehorn. He has been given the case of the missing child. [can I slip in here that he is one of Jeremiah Kincaid's illigitamate children?] Elizabeth found this out when she "borrowed" some journals from the library. They were written by Jeremiah's first wife. Finally the DNA came back on the woman that was killed in Nick Dean's truck explosion. Marie March was 24 and possibly coming back for her child, Jennifer. DNA also proved the little girl was Jeremiah's child. How had little Jennifer disappeared from the library at or soon after Mary Jo Kincaid's story-telling time? No one saw a thing. Mary Jo had to contend with all the questions that Elizabeth was asking and stirring up curiosity of the Whitehorn inhabitants. Of course the big problem between Jonas and Elizabeth [after she moved in with him] was their attraction [yup! into bed they hopped] and his distrust of her. [dingbats can't control their hormones].