Huge, redheaded Dr. Clay Walters was probably the most popular and respected man in the Cates. His only trouble was that he'd been far too busy all his thirty-five years to study much more than the clinical aspects of the female of the species--which made him an easy victim for a pretty little schemer like Maria Featherstone. But when Biddy Conway came home to care for her dying father, it didn't take Clay long to realise that Biddy was a warm, beautiful young woman and Maria just a Dresden doll. Maria Featherstone was not one to step aside gracefully, however.