The Loves of Ruby Dee — Curtiss Ann Matlock

THE END OF THE ROAD

The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with an irascible old man and his rough sons.

Heartache has carried Ruby Dee to this remote corner of the dusty Oklahoma plains -- and into the fraying fabric of a remarkable ranching family: prideful Hardy, stubbornly clinging to his rapidly fading powers; wild Lonnie, lost in a mad whirl of rodeos and loose women ... and Will, handsome, serious and seething with unfulfilled dreams. And as each in his own way reaches out to claim the willowy, dark-eyed healer, it is Ruby herself who will be healed -- as she touches their souls ... and changes their lives forever.