'No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't erase his image. She longed to forget she ever met him, longed for the excitement of her new job to consume her, not the unbidden thoughts of the tall, rugged male that wouldn't be banished.'

But Tell Hardin would not disappear. He said he was a 'simple cowboy', and, for all Molly Spencer knew, that could be the only life he had ever known. How could she, coming from a certain background and education, ever find happiness with a cowboy? No, her dreams were of greater...or were they?