HIS SECRET DAUGHTER In the space of a minute, Nick Brennan learns he has a nine-year-old daughter—and that she desperately needs his help. All this time, his high school sweetheart, single mother Josie Peretti, thought he knew about their child. And that he just didn’t care. About the ill little girl—or Josie, the woman he’s never forgotten.But Nick made a long-ago promise to never foresake his family the way his father did. A promise he vows to make good on now . . . if only Josie will bless him with a second chance.