No Easy Surrender — Jan Mathews

He was everything Carly Anderson detested. Josh Cade was a soft, sophisticated city slicker, and a representative of Americo Oil Company. His geological survey would result in the mining of shale oil--and the destruction of her ranch. She was determined to stop him.

But Carly discovers she has mistaken both the purpose of the survey and the measure of the man. Josh is as rugged as any rancher ... and though Carly has been betrayed before, she cannot resist Josh's heady caresses, nor deny her overwhelming passionate response...