Honey and the Hired Hand by Joan Johnston

Honey Farrell finds herself still grieving her dead Texas Ranger husband a year later, struggling to keep the two boys to raise and the ranch barely making ends meet. Having lost fifty head of cattle to rustlers, she hires drifter Jesse Whitelaw to help out while trying to get on her feet. Dr. Adam Philips has asked her to marry him. Not really loving him, she wonders what she should do? When Honey finds herself attracted to drifter Jesse, the scene heats up, and tempers flare. Is Jesse really a drifter, or a cattle rustler as some claim? A good read. Sandy Penton.