The Widow's Faithful Cowboy

Jameson Noble has been drifting since he left home after a falling-out with his family, and he comes to Longhorn Ranch looking for nothing more than work.

He arrives in the middle of a gun battle and helps Lottie Wilkes, the widowed ranch owner, fend off a neighbor who has been harassing her.

Raising young sons alone, Lottie is set on making the ranch prosper and on never marrying again, unwilling to follow her fickle mother through husband after husband.

She hires the cowboy for one month, the longest he will stay, yet his steady and faithful presence wins her boys and draws her toward the drifter she planned to keep at a distance.

When the children beg her to make Jameson their father, she still refuses love and remarriage.

That refusal holds until the cost of waiting becomes clear and she stands to lose everything.