As miles of track unfurled behind her, Susan Alexander looked forward to the warm, remote haven of the Mexican mountains. Alone, afraid, and as vulnerable as a woman could be, she would surely find shelter there. Indeed, fate put a handsome stranger on the train, a man who gave without taking... and gently opened her heart to love. But Armando Cobian was also a man of honor, of tradition, from a world where manly machismo guarded womanly virtue. Certain she was hardly traditional fare, Susan faced a new crisis of conscience. For would this proud, stalwart male knowingly choose a woman who was carrying another man's child?