The Farmer Takes A Wife

the long version

Then Rafe Burnside fit right in. Because at one time the single father had been hopeful for his own future, and that of his little boy, but now he was barely getting by. Until a flu-stricken Dr. Maggie Tremont drove into town. She needed help -- in the last place and from the last people she was likely to get it... Rafe knew that getting attached to the lovely Maggie was dangerous -- she was only passing through. But in Maggie, Rafe could see a ray of light that hadn't been there before. And what was that unfamiliar sound... could it be the chain loosening around his heart?