Living is never easy When someone you love has died, And you have nothing to fall back on But that iron Calder pride.  After fifteen years Janet Dailey returns to the beloved Calder clan in this long-anticipated novel, the newest addition to the bestselling Calder series!  Cat is a Calder through and through: proud, headstrong, intelligent, and extremely beautiful. When her fiancé is accidentally killed, she retreats to the family homestead to mourn, vowing never to give her heart to another man. But one reckless night with a handsome, gray-eyed stranger changes her life forever--and gives her a son with striking gray eyes.  Cat decides to raise the child on her own, as a Calder, and live with her family on the Triple C Ranch. Even though the town has watched Cat grow from a girl to a young woman, they treat her as an outcast when they learn she is an unwed mother. Despite her family's wealth and power--or because of it--Cat is gossiped about meanly, and it takes all her pride to hold her head up and ignore what she knows is being said behind her back.  But Cat cannot ignore the new sheriff, Logan Echohawk. It isn't his rugged good looks that cause her heart to skip a beat when he first arrives in town--it's his striking gray eyes. It seems impossible, but the man she thought she would never see again is now a part of her life--whether she wants him to be or not. And will he notice her son's eyes and figure out what she vowed never to tell him?  Cat finds herself torn between her promise to her first love and powerful, unexpected feelings for her child's father. With her family standing firmly behind her, and her son's future in her hands, Cat must decide: Will she take a chance on a new, true love?  Wonderfully romantic, and as sweeping as the Montana plains, Calder Pride will delight and satisfy Janet Dailey fans, both old and new. Setting: contemporary Montana and Texas Sensuality: 7 Cat Calder is grief stricken when her young fiancé is killed in a car accident. Emotionally devastated and vulnerable, Cat's final evening in town--meant to be spent with close college friends--ends instead in the arms of a handsome, gray-eyed stranger. Nine months later, Cat gives birth to a healthy baby boy and raises him in the protective bosom of her powerful family; everything changes the day a lawman--with arresting gray eyes--arrives in Blue Moon, Montana. Logan Echohawk has never forgotten that night or the beautiful stranger, and it only takes one long look at the boy to know that the brief, passionate encounter had created a child. While Cat struggles to come to grips with Logan's appearance, an enemy's long-smoldering thirst for revenge flares to life, threatening Logan, Cat, and their beloved son. Will Logan's training as a lawman be enough to save his family? And even if everyone survives, will Cat have the courage to chance her heart and love again? The newest installment in Janet Dailey's much loved Calder family saga, Calder Pride possesses both complex characters and a compelling plot line--one infused with a suspense element that Dailey conveys as effortlessly as the essence of a Montana ranching community that will charm the reader throughout. Intelligent and strong, Cat is well balanced by Logan, who is her equal, whether they're riding horses, roping cattle, battling bad guys, or making love. Fans who fell in love with earlier Calder novels will be delighted with this latest chapter in the family chronicle. --Lois Faye Dyer Dailey confirms her place as a top megaseller in her fifth roundup with the Calder family on the Triple C Ranch, home of the Calder Cattle Company, which she abandoned some 15 years ago (Calder Born, Calder Bred, etc.). Her sentence-stuffing, wordspinning excesses, though, are hardly an improvement over romance hackers of a century past (Logan picked up the receiver on the old rotary dial phone and depressed the cradles disconnect button, silencing the irritating beepi.e., Logan hung up the phone). Dailey asks a question early in the novel that readers will know the answer to long before heroine Cat Calder does. Cat is engaged to marry Repp before she finishes college, but Repp is killed instantly in a car accident with drunken Rollie, one of the story's heavies. The death leaves Cat with a gaping emptiness in her life she didnt think she could endure. But she does, vowing to avoid this pain forever and never to marry. So when sturdy, gray-eyed Logan Echohawk comes into her life for an overnighter, then departs, Cat chooses to raise their issue, gray-eyed Quint, on her own and as a Calder. Years pass, and when Logan returns as a sheriff, the melodrama deepens. Cat resists every feeling that might make her break her vow to long-lost Repp. Will she ever surrender again to Logan Echohawk and give Quint a father? Get serious. With 300 million copies of her books in print, would Dailey dare to create her first heartbroken reader? -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All r