Cindy Turley never let emotion affect her decisions. She hungered for love and a family, but she was strong enough to resist temptation. No one believed that - not even her best friend.
When a lean rancher offered her a job taking care of his house, she accepted. The people in town referred to him as “the hermit”. It fit. Russel Cade meant nothing more to her than a means of getting out of the diner and a possibility of saving enough money for a down payment on a place of her own. To the stoic Cade, she represented nothing more than a hot meal he didn’t have to fix every night. It was the perfect arrangement.
All the same, when temptation leaned on the doorbell, she answered it. When the recluse began his courtship, she tumbled off her pedestal - right into his arms.
When their relationship became what she considered immoral, she had to choose between the man and ranch she had come to love and self-esteem. Emotion and logic were locked in a fatal struggle.
