Intimate Circle — Curtiss Ann Matlock

Seemed like half of Oklahoma knew there'd always been something special, something better left unspoken, between solitary Dallas Cordell and his brother's gentle wife Rachel. Everyone thought family honor had kept them apart. Yet after a senseless accident widowed Rachel and burdened Dallas with guilt, Rachel had fled the Cordell enclave forever.

But now, with her boy needing the nourishing warmth of home and kin, Rachel returned to Oklahoma--and tongues started wagging again. Because it was plain to see that family honor could prove a mighty frail thing compared to forbidden passion ...

A powerful sense of honor and fierce forbidding passions forge the lives of the proud Cordells.