Denim & Lace — Patricia Rice

A SHOCKING PROPOSAL

Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. After traveling two thousand miles, she finally had her chance to confront the man she believed capable of murdering her missing father. As owner of this mining settlement in the California Sierras, Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town. Now she had to prove she was more than spitfire and sass. She had to prove she was woman enough to bring down the handsomest, most sinfully dangerous man she'd ever met.

Sloan Talbott called Sam a ragtag redheaded tomboy, but her honeyed voice taunted him by day and slipped into his dreams at night. In denim, she made him crazy. In lace, she made him wild. With his own private demons tormenting him, Sloan didn't need a woman like Sam revealing what kind of man he really was. He couldn't let himself love her, but he couldn't stop wanting her. Instead, he offered her a proposition she ought to refuse ....