Badlands Bride — Adrianne Wood

Worlds collide when a wealthy heiress meets a journalist with writer's block in this steamy Western romance set in the Colorado badlands.

Lily Highfill has spent many long years in Denver, exiled from her high-society family. With a betrothal to a rich gentleman nearly in her pocket and an invitation to return home to Boston in hand, Lily thinks her future is set and decides to spend her final month out West at her grandfather's fossil dig in the Colorado badlands. Then a famous frontier journalist enters camp and stirs up trouble -- and deep desire in Lily's heart.

Mason Donnelly used to be one of the most popular writers west of the Mississippi, but after several dry months, his career has hit rock bottom. One big story could put him back on top, and he senses that there's more to the excavation than dinosaur bones. But a beautiful and feisty heiress is about to derail all his plans in ways he could never imagine….