Inherited — Marianne Shock

Tricia Riley had been raised on a Virginia cattle ranch, but she was too tenderhearted to think like a cowboy. When fierce, unyielding Chase Colby was hired to manage Green Hills, she vowed to have nothing to do with him. He was too much like her father--full of secrets, of cold places no one could touch. But all her careful plans dissolved the night Chase watched her flaming hair tumble to her waist-a-nd went crazy with desire. When had want become need, he wondered desperately, when had his hunger for her body become a longing to possess her heart? But loving Tricia, Chase found, had a price: coming to terms with a past that tore him, apart...