A Tradition of Pride

The honeymoon was over long, long ago

Lara Cochran had once been a happy bride. Then Trevor, her charming husband, had turned to other women.

Divorce was unheard-of in Lara's family, but she didn't want one anyway. One disastrous marriage was enough; she was now safely immune from men--all men.

Or so she thought until she met Rans MacQuade, the rugged and virile manager of her father's Mississippi plantation. But she knew she couldn't let herself get carried away. For that would mean making some dramatic, unwanted changes in her life ....