Spinster's Song — Parris Afton Bonds

Assigned to desolate Kingdom Come, Texas, to work off her government loan, young Dr. Mary Margulies wanted only to put in her time and then to establish a profitable practice elsewhere. She had no ambition to form any lasting attachments in the poverty-stricken town until she met Rafe Anaya.

Tall, bronzed, and virile, Rafe was everything Mary desired in a man --- and he made it perfectly clear that she had what he craved in a woman. Despite her well-laid plans, Mary soon realized that, no matter how hard she struggled against it, Rafe's battle to reveal the woman inside the spinster doctor was proving far too successful.