The proposal was tempting.... Rugged widower Jonus Logan made his masculine desire for her plain enough. His beseeching, button-eyed daughter tugged at her every maternal instinct. Yet Polly Dearing had suffered too much from love and loss. Her response was a quavery no. Jonus had another answer in mind. His little girl needed a stepmom; he hungered for married pleasures. Voluptuous, affectionate, efficient Polly was perfect-the answer to his prayers. Wed her he would.... Still, two hearts trembled at the threshold of... what? Something more than a practical partnership? Could one lonely man, one wary woman, join forces to push open the door, to unlock the courage to love once more?