A Gentle Taming — Adrienne Day

Adversity taught beautiful, tempestuous Lauren Cooper to be tough - but no one ever taught her how to be a woman. Since her mother's death six years earlier, she has had to run the family's failing Arizona ranch almost single-handedly - leaving her no time to even think about romance...until Alex MacKenzie acquires the neighboring spread. The gentle, handsome Scotsman is unlike any man Lauren has ever known - with his strange accent, his bizarre clothing...and a soft, brown-eyed gaze that makes her blood race hot and wild. And though Alex is bewildered by this high-spirited diamond in the rough, his impassioned heart begs him to tame her. For he knows that somewhere beneath the foul language and the dusty cowboy britches is a sweet, sensuous lady who aches to be loved.

Hero: Alec MacKenzie Heroine: Lauren Cooper