Even after eight months of widowhood, Willie still couldn't grasp the fact that she, and she alone must fend for herself and her six children. When she had married Paul Venables, Willie had just been twenty. She's known little about cooking, housekeeping and children- and even less about her own hopes and needs. Willie loved her husband but in the strain and pressure of raising their large family, she'd never had the time to analyze why her feelings toward him were never quite.....comfortable, or why she never really felt fulfilled. Now she was forced to realize that the confining traditions by which she'd been living had not prepared her for her new responsibilities. She'd already gone through all of Paul's insurance money. She was alone and helpless and she had six children to take care of....