Cody's Honor — Carole Buck

Cody Merrill -- His very name unsettles Geneva, inspiring guilt, shame and yearning. But southern honor demands they never speak of her troubled marriage to his step-brother...of the painful legacy of womanly doubt it left behind...or of the desire that flared between them on the day Cody stood beside her at the altar -- as best man!

Geneva Butler -- Cody wanted Geneva from the first but a gentleman's honor dictated that his passion remain unfulfilled. Knowing his brother's death shattered her, deeply aware of his own marital failure, Cody's convinced he could only hurt Geneva. They're drawn together but silently afraid, prisoners of a past that may rob them of a future...