Diamond in the Rough — Millie Criswell

AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
They called her the meanest spinster this side of the Rockies! Miss Prudence Daniels meant to do things her way -- until a handsome stranger rode into the Rough and Ready Ranch, invading her private world, igniting sweet desire and filling her with restless longing.

A HANDSOME DRIFTER
The good God-fearing folks of Absolution, Colorado, said Prudence had a temper that rivaled the devil's and a tongue that could tear a man to ribbons at twenty paces. But Brock Peters saw the passionate, sensual woman within -- a redheaded spitfire who dared him to meet her challenge, break her rules .... and make his home in her fiery heart forever.