Bittersweet Return — Patricia Watters

BOOK 6: DANCING MOON RANCH SERIES - In the jungles of Central America, archaeologists Marc Hansen and Kit Korban are winding up a project. Marc walked away from his family after learning that all his life had been a lie. He hasn't seen them in four years and doesn't plan to return any time soon. Although Kit sees potential in the man, and his presence makes her pulse race, he's carrying far too much personal baggage, so a relationship with him is out. However, when she learns there's an unexcavated Indian mound on his family's ranch, Kit talks Marc into taking her there. But whereas Marc's mother welcomes him with open arms, it's not the same with his father. Marc walked away from a mother who'd loved him unconditionally, and Jack Hansen isn't ready to put that behind. But as Kit begins to peel back the layers of a very complex man, she also finds in Marc a man worth loving. The problem is convincing Marc that, just because he's no blood kin, he's not the outsider in the family he's always believed himself to be.

PLEASE NOTE: The thirteen books in the Dancing Moon Ranch series are intended to be read in sequence as each book moves forward in time, the entire series spanning thirty years and two generations. COMING IN 2015: FINDING JUSTICE, which is BOOK 12, the final story in the DANCING MOON RANCH SERIES