Ties That Bind — Nancy Berland

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

Claire Linwood had always dreamed of bringing expert medical care to the dusty cowtown she called home. The offer to become the top-salaried doctor and part owner of the new $2,000,000 medical clinic in Sierra, Texas, turned her idle dream into a golden reality. All she had to do was avoid the man who had broken her heart twelve years before.

LAST CHANCE FOR LOVE

It had been a dozen years since Dugan Nichols had put his bride on a bus to the big city and medical school. Claire had never complained about being a young cattleman's wife, but he knew she was cut out for much bigger things, so he'd lied to get her off the ranch ... and out of his life. Now the graceful blonde with sparkling blue eyes was back ... and a different woman. Everybody said shed come back for the money. Dugan knew differently. If he could only make Claire see that his hateful lies had shielded a love that would last a lifetime, he knew shed come home to him.