Ramblin' Man — Barbara Kaye

She rarely allowed herself to dream

But when cowboy George Whittaker left the Davis Mountains for greener pastures it just about broke Laurie Tyler's heart. She vowed to forget him. George was the sweetest man she'd ever met, but he was, in the argot of the country music Laurie loved, a genuine "ramblin' man."

Only now he was back, with two kids -- his nieces -- in tow. It was the easiest thing in the world for Laurie, the local schoolteacher, to pretend they were a family. But she knew she should get out while the getting was good.

She could already hear those hurtin' songs...