As miles of track unfurled behind her, Susan Alexander looked forward to thewarm, remote haven of the Mexican mountains. Alone, afraid, and asvulnerable 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 ofhonor, of tradition, from a world where manly machismo guarded womanlyvirtue. Certain she was hardly traditional fare, Susan faced a new crisis ofconscience. For would this proud, stalwart male knowingly choose a woman whowas carrying another man's child?